A few food things

I have been reading this cookbook recently. It is great. All of the recipes I made tasted great(except the mac-n-cheese; i couldn't find frozen winter squash so I made my own squash but did not pick out a winter squash,. i picked out spaghetti squash and it turned out very very badly, in fact I'm getting a little nauseous just thing about it)

This isn't actually a recipe in the book but something she talks about. Instead of putting butter, peanut butter, or cream cheese on these bagels (all of which are not so great for you) I spread on half an avocado (as you might have guessed from the green). It was very good.

These crazy things were from a bread book I got from the library, unfortunately I returned but i think it was this book. I also cooked these biscuits a bit to long so they didn't taste all that good either, very sad after spending upwords of 8 hours on them. If I had only taken them out when I looked at the timer and saw 3 min left. Also, the small ball on top, I have a feeling that I made it to big, that the bottom ball was supposed to be bigger and then they could have cooked that 3 min longer without burning.

Ran out of Yarn, but never fear

I knitted until the yarn ran out and then knitted some more. I was not able to finish the laguna blouse. The sleeves where just to much for my limited about of yarn. I knew this from the get go but thought I could figure out a way to make it work. Fortunately I did not have to rip out the whole thing to get something wearable. I turned it into a tank top, a no sew tank top, that I am quite proud of.

I didn't want to bother to try and find a pattern that could work with the 203 stitches that I already had 13" knitted in the round (yes it was supposes to be 204 and can't find where I dropped a stitch so I think I must have not cast on the right number) So I made my own pattern. It worked quite well, I measured a tank top that fits me, did the math and then re-knitted the sleeves (or straps as they now are). I really love the clever way I came up with casting off to not get that staggered edge line along the neck. I didn't do the picking up stitches thing to knit a neck band either.


I am contemplating adding the neck band since I do have some yarn left over and the straps are starting to curl. Since it has a low back and front the neck band might need more yarn than I have left, even for one or two rows. I just don't like picking up stiches since I'm not all that good at it.

The yarn did wash up quite nicely. The hubby did the laundry and did not do anything special and it came out unharmed (good thing for him or he might have been harmed). He didn't even think about doing something different until he saw me try it on right away while folding the laundry.

I got an earfull

Here is how far I have gotten with my corn yarn. I picked out a pattern that I'm pretty sure I don't have enough yarn to finish but I'm prepared to alter that pattern as much as I have to to finish with what I have. After winding the whole big loop up I got this. I call it my dinosaur egg.

That is the patten I'm using in the background. It is called the laguna blouse. I love the gathered sleeves. However, it I run out of yarn those will be the first to go (unless adding shaping will solve the problem). I'm thinking that with both shaping and changing it to a tank top I will be able to make something wearable out to this ball of yarn. It is meant to be knit in two parts and sewn together but I have changed it to knit in the round and this will involve no sewing!!! It is a very simple pattern to so this endless sea of stockinette is starting to get the best of me. I hate the thought of having to rip it all out and re-knit it. My progress so far is a bit tube, about 11 inches long.

I have about 11 more inches to go and I'm pretty sure that I've used more than half of the yarn. But I'm going to knit it all up before riping back to see just how much I'm working with. The yarn is very nice to kit with. It smells like being in a corn field. But only when you are knitting or working with the yarn (ie is needs some heat to bring out the corn field smell) it is very nice. The weird thing is that after knitting for over 1/2 hour my thumb starts to burn a bit (like I'm allergic to the dye or something) I don't know if this is normal or if I should worry about it but I still am in love this the corn. A quick search on ravelry showed me that this is not the only corn yarn out their. I am very interesting in looking into different weights of this delightful fiber. (I LOVE CORN)

This is so hard

I now have new respect for those who keep a blog and update it every day or at least 5 times a week. I'm finding it very hard to just do it once a week. And this one will be very short.

I finished the hoodie!! (actually last Monday and I'm already half way done with the corn shirt)