As the last delicious moments of Spring Break swirl down the drain, I've been trying to cram the maximum amount of craftyness into the time I have left. I made a batch of buttermilk bread, from my Secrets of a Jewish Baker cookbook. I dyed a batch of Knitpicks merino sock yarn with koolaid, producing two very nice skeins - they're mostly Black Cherry and Tropical Punch, with sporadic flecks of Raspberry Reaction. The last time I dyed yarn with koolaid, I inadvertently felted the yarn a bit, because I rinsed the hot dye out of the yarn with cold water. This time, I followed the instructions and rinsed the yarn with hot water, and avoided any felting. Hooray! Since the two skeins are slightly different, I don't think I'll make them into a pair of socks. A better bet might be to make a lacy scarf, and switch between skeins on alternate rows. I tried that approach with the Purl Scarf and beanie I made out of Manos, and it worked great. I also finished the giraffe scarf, after making it quite a bit longer. It's 3 skeins of K1C2 Temptation, and I've got one skein left. What to do... And the final picture is my mint plant, slowly coming out of hibernation. It supplied mint for dozens of batches of mojitos last summer, and I can't wait to enjoy a batch out on the back deck! After the temperature crawls over 60 degrees, I'm so there.