Pizza dough

I made a batch of pizza dough, and let me tell you it is yummy. This is fun playing with all this yeast and flour lately. Next time I want to branch out and make a sweet bread... hmmm, who knows.

Embroidery

I picked up old wooden embroidery hoops from goodwill and embellished some fabric for wall art of the cheep and cheerful variety.

Exit Through The Gift Shop

I don't think I've ever blogged without a photo before, but just had to give a shout out to the movie, Exit Through The Gift Shop. On Colin's recommendation we went to see it this Friday. If you have a chance to see it you should.

Sunday dinner

We've had Sunday dinner with the folks biweekly since moving. Is one of my favorite things about being home in the PNW. This week we took a walk in the sculpture garden before dinner.

Spring bandit

I didn't like the bright yellow very much while I was knitting this shawl, but I fell in love with it the minute it was finished and blocked. I'm going to be a spring time bandit, and wear this all week.

Around the house

Apologies for not blogging much lately. Here is a little bit of an around the house update.

I filled water bottles with rice for very quick door stops, and they have been working a treat for weeks now.

Yesterday I went into a bag making frenzy. The green one can be used as a light weight back pack for my new bicycle commute. The blue one is a project bag for knitting and the pink is going in the collection of reusable grocery bags that only rarely make it to the grocery store.

And today I was in the kitchen making more Tassajara bread. This time I branched out and made two plain and two cheesy. I only wish I could have caught the steam pouring out of the loaf. Mmmmm.

visitors

We had visitors this weekend, and it was so lovely to have them. We saw the RJD2 show at the Wild Buffalo on Saturday, which was fun.


They came with whiskey, the best kind of house guest imaginable.

Um, somehow I managed to not get a single picture of Laurel... oops. Sorry, Lo, I love you!!

Employed...

I'm employed. It is at a shocking rate I haven't worked for since high school. What can I say? Times are tough, oh ya, and it is in a knitting shop. Fantastic.

Speaking of knitting, this is just a teaser photo because this gifty hasn't been mailed yet. I think my friends and family should keep having babies, because knitting for infants is the best thing ever.

3 dollar sweater

Many months ago I bought this bulky, ill fitting sweater for 3 bucks at the Louisville thrift shop.

See? Very ill fitting.

But I bought it for the yarn. The only clues about the yarn is a tag saying "100% wool. Made in Ireland"



I measured and weighed. There is a lot of yarn here.

Then, for a going away present, the Boulder Knitting Collective gave me a pattern I'd been lusting after for ages, Berkshire Dolman. Ta - da! A three dollar hand knit sweater.