Well, the Initial bag is finished. The verdict? I'm not entirely happy with it. I'll try to upload a picture later today, but it's just not the way I pictured it before I started. I know it's probably my sewing techniques, as I pretty much have none. I barely squeaked by with a B- in Home ec in middle school, and that only because I think the teacher felt sorry for me. Jason has been telling me for years that he'll teach me how to sew, but it hasn't happened yet. On a related note, we even have a really nice, old sewing machine MIL bought for us, used, but it's never been touched because neither one of us can figure out how to thread the darn thing. Yes, we have an instruction book, and we still can't figure it out. I can't learn that way very easily. I need someone to show me. It's amazing I learned to knit, because I learned from the Internet and from a booklet. I knew no one IRL who knit.
If you look in my sidebar, you'll see I joined two knitalongs this week-- the Scarf Style knitalong, and the Hourglass knitalong. I'm about 2 inches into the Hourglass sweater. I've changed the pattern a bit though-- I'm making it have a seedstitch bottom instead of foldover, hemmed sleeves and bottom. Hah. Me sew up an entire hem!? I still haven't completely decided what scarf I'm going to knit from Scarf Style. I need a new scarf. The one I knit out of the green Symphony a month ago, Jason proclaimed that his mom would love it, so it went in her bag with the Airy Scarf. (Go figure, she'll probably like the super-simple drop stitch and cheapo yarn better than the more complicated Airy Scarf with Kidsilk Haze).
My Scarf Style possibilities:
Midwest Moonlight
Vintage Velvet (with wool though, not Touch Me)
Misty Garden (aka Feather and Fan)
Braided Mischeif
Here and There Cables
I'm leaning toward either Here and There Cables or Misty Garden. I want something relatively easy to work on for the drive back and forth to my parents and over the Holiday.
Jason has wrapped almost all of my gifts and I'm practically bursting at the seams with anticipation. I'm such a little kid. He also told me I can't look at the checking account transactions online, or my Amazon wishlist. He told me that last week, and I haven't peeked yet. I'm sure I'llpeek holdout for Christmas.
All my goodies are baked/made. We ended up with:
Peanut Brittle
Peanut Butter Fudge
Peppermint Bark
Chocolate Fudge
It was my first solo-fudge-making experience, and I'd say it went well. I used Alton Brown of Good Eat's recipes. I love that show. As much as I kind of disliked science in school, I was really interested in my Biology of Food class I took in college, and I love that he gives little tidbits of information about the science behind cooking. I even enjoy most of the meat episodes, and I'm a vegetarian!
It looks like we're going to have a white Christmas. Of course, we have had about 4 inches on the ground for over a week, but they're expecting 4-6 more inches late tonight into Thursday. And back down to the subzero temps on Christmas Eve and Christmas. Keep warm! It's a good thing a lot of my family is getting knitted gifts for Christmas.
List for today:
1.fold two loads of laundry
2.do dishes
3.clean sink
4.give marzi a bath
5.go to Dollar Tree or Salvation Army (or both)
6.wrap a few stocking stuffers
My list is done! What shall I do with the rest of my day? I still have a lot of gifts to wrap. Perhaps I'll work on that.
If you look in my sidebar, you'll see I joined two knitalongs this week-- the Scarf Style knitalong, and the Hourglass knitalong. I'm about 2 inches into the Hourglass sweater. I've changed the pattern a bit though-- I'm making it have a seedstitch bottom instead of foldover, hemmed sleeves and bottom. Hah. Me sew up an entire hem!? I still haven't completely decided what scarf I'm going to knit from Scarf Style. I need a new scarf. The one I knit out of the green Symphony a month ago, Jason proclaimed that his mom would love it, so it went in her bag with the Airy Scarf. (Go figure, she'll probably like the super-simple drop stitch and cheapo yarn better than the more complicated Airy Scarf with Kidsilk Haze).
My Scarf Style possibilities:
Midwest Moonlight
Vintage Velvet (with wool though, not Touch Me)
Misty Garden (aka Feather and Fan)
Braided Mischeif
Here and There Cables
I'm leaning toward either Here and There Cables or Misty Garden. I want something relatively easy to work on for the drive back and forth to my parents and over the Holiday.
Jason has wrapped almost all of my gifts and I'm practically bursting at the seams with anticipation. I'm such a little kid. He also told me I can't look at the checking account transactions online, or my Amazon wishlist. He told me that last week, and I haven't peeked yet. I'm sure I'll
All my goodies are baked/made. We ended up with:
Peanut Brittle
Peanut Butter Fudge
Peppermint Bark
Chocolate Fudge
It was my first solo-fudge-making experience, and I'd say it went well. I used Alton Brown of Good Eat's recipes. I love that show. As much as I kind of disliked science in school, I was really interested in my Biology of Food class I took in college, and I love that he gives little tidbits of information about the science behind cooking. I even enjoy most of the meat episodes, and I'm a vegetarian!
It looks like we're going to have a white Christmas. Of course, we have had about 4 inches on the ground for over a week, but they're expecting 4-6 more inches late tonight into Thursday. And back down to the subzero temps on Christmas Eve and Christmas. Keep warm! It's a good thing a lot of my family is getting knitted gifts for Christmas.
List for today:
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My list is done! What shall I do with the rest of my day? I still have a lot of gifts to wrap. Perhaps I'll work on that.
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