Look what the postman brought me this morning! A parcel full of shiny things from the lovely Katie.
Four packets of shiny seed beads in reds and pinks, which have been carefully added to my bead box of doom. Plus some soap and a lovely knitted washcloth, which is somewhat obscured and then lurking at the very back because I didn’t want to put it in the sun, a bar of Divine milk chocolate. Mmmmmm!
This is what the washcloth looks like when it’s not obscured by other shiny things.
Thank you, Katie! This has really made my day! :squishes you:
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After some trouble with unclear directions in regards to the Raglan shaping, I have successfully completed my version of Baby’s First Tattoo from SnBN. I opted not to do the “tattoos” as I didn’t really like the suggested options and I subsituted the invisible snaps for two buttons with crochet loops.
This’ll be packaged up and sent to New Zealand for the newest member of my large family. I’m already trying to think who else I know that could use one as it really was so easy to complete and looks so good. I’m particularly pleased because this is the first item that I’ve had to actually sew up – everything else has been knitted in one piece or in the round.
Now that I’m down a WIP, I’m working on my prototype/pattern for a knitted Puddlejumper (from Stargate Atlantis) and my mouse “accidentally” slipped this morning – I purchased the yarn needed for the camisole in this month’s Simply Knitting. Oops! Five skeins of Elle Cotton Fields in Pepper should be winging its way to me shortly. :rubs hands:
So, I had this rough silk yarn that I wasn’t massively fond of, but didn’t really know what to do with. There wasn’t enough to make anything big, nor so little you can use it as waste yarn, just an awkward amount.
So I figured, hey! Why not trying making a knit net bag. So I did.
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Cooking, with baking in particular, is my kryptonite. Leave me to my own devices and I will bake until the cows come home because as much as I enjoy cooking in general, there’s just something about baking that really scratches an itch.
This weekend I managed to get my sticky paws onto a copy of How to be a Domestic Goddess in my local cut-price bookstore. I then spent the rest of the weekend salivating quietly and making lists of things to try but by yesterday, it was clear that the first thing was going to have to be Flora’s Famous Courgette Cake, in a desperate attempt to use up some of the never ending courgettes that are taking over the allotment. (At the moment, dinner around here is all courgette, all the time.)
I will admit that I was slightly peturbed by the idea but in the end, it turned out beautifully. It’s moist, sweet and the lemon cream cheese icing just gives it enough sharpness. The rest of the family have declined to even try it, which is fine as that’s more for myself and my mother.
And then the internet demonstrated its hive mind capabilities: I was not alone in making this cake this weekend. After I’d grated my courgettes and left them to drain a bit, I wandered upstairs and checked my rss feeds and found that not only had Katie made it that day, she’d typed up the recipe as well! :hums twilight zone theme music:
I love how the internet is full of these little pleasures.