Pensive Frog

I may have mentioned that I finally tried David Lebovitz’s famous Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream recipe, and that it was a resounding success. I only have one picture of the endeavor, because my fingers were preoccupied with scraping stray ice cream bits from the ice cream maker and aiming them towards my mouth. [...]

High off the success of my Trellis scarf, I’m already scheming my next lace project. I’m thinking another rectangular scarf. I’ve had my eye on Eunny Jang’s Print o’ the Wave stole for a while, but the grafting and edging are a bit intimidating. However, I just found Kodachrome’s simplified pattern adaptation, [...]

So I was instantly smitten by the Foliage Hat in the Fall Knitty, and I started one up right away, using Manos in a weird pink/grey colorway.

Somewhere along the line, I made a mistake and ended up with the wrong number of stitches. I tried to figure out where the mistake occurred, but I [...]

It’s done! The trellis scarf is DONE! I’ve been toiling away on this beast since last summer! And it’s finally done.
Here are some crappy, blurry, Interweave Knits-worthy pictures of my triumph:
Pre-blocking. I wore it once in this state, and it was so cozy and soft. That little squiggle [...]

The reason I post pictures sporadically is that the computer set up to fling pictures on the Internet is not my regular computer. So I can go weeks without posting pics, then have a photo-heavy week when I finally get it together and use the photo-friendly computer. So sometimes I forget to post [...]

A few weeks ago I tried making ricotta cheese at home, using this recipe from Becks & Posh. I actually made a one-quarter recipe, because I couldn’t justify pouring a gallon of milk into my first try at ricotta cheese.
The results? It turned out pretty good! And I can see why the [...]

Twelve year old me loved doing cross stitch. My grand oeuvre was an alphabet sampler, in which every letter was represented by a little picture of a different food or kitchen tool. This alphabet sampler featured on Posie Gets Cozy re-sparked that interest in me. Samplers are so fun because each [...]

Have you seen the preview for the Interweave Knits Holiday Gifts issue? There is some really cute stuff in there, especially the dragon puppet! I have a real “thing” for puppets, I can spend hours in toy stores doing voices and squeezing puppet faces into odd expressions. It’s really amazing how smarmy [...]

Now that the weather is decidedly COLD (unless you’re in Chicago, which I thought is supposed to be a cold place, but whatevs), I thought I’d remind everyone about my Peekaboo mittens! There were published in Magknits in February, almost too late for winter and definitely too late for the gift-giving season. That’s [...]

Have you ever really looked at the garment care instructions label sewn into your clothes? Even the simplest underwear will have a tiny polemic attached to the waistband:
Machine wash warm with like colors. Only non-chlorine bleach when needed. Tumble dry low, iron if desired.
So why do you never get a label [...]

Question: do wristwarmers actually work? I’m talking about those short tubes similar to coffee cup sleeves or tennis player wrist sweat bands. I’ve used fingerless gloves to keep warmish in the wintertime office environment, but they get in the way of my typing (flying fingers of fury, I tell you!). So [...]