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I spent last evening cooking (and eating) a gourmet dinner of salmon wrapped in phyllo, risotto, and grilled vegetables. Now I can count the number of times we’ve used our good china on two fingers! :) (Both of which I managed to cut while opening the plastic packaging on the new meat thermometer we bought. [...]
My major deadline at work is over – and we made it – so maybe now I can blog a little more often! We managed to get the furniture exchanged, so it should arrive Friday (fingers crossed). I made my first pillow – I have a new respect for self-cording…thank goodness for zipper feet. Considering [...]
No new blue sofa yet. :( There was a mix-up and it didn’t get into the system right. The earliest it will be delivered is Wednesday. It may work out for the best, though, since after re-measuring I realized that the way I rearranged the room won’t fit with the sofa, chair and ottoman we [...]
No, I didn’t go on vacation like Jenny and Tina. I’ve just been very busy at work and spending evenings cleaning and buying furniture and fabric. :) I’m getting my new blue sofa tomorrow. Yay! And last night I bought about a million yards (ok, only 14) of pretty new fabric for curtains. Thank goodness [...]
Lisa & Mike’s new baby, Henry, finally made an appearance last night (15 days late!) I can’t wait to go meet him tonight! :) Besides that, I have lots of stuff to blog about, but I have too much actual work to do today…
Which means I don’t have to water anything today! (It’s the simple things in life that make me happy.) In other, knitting-related, news: I gave in and bought the yarn for my afghan last night. Even though I haven’t even started my sweater sleeves. Oops. :) But it was as a reward to myself for [...]
As if I didn’t have enough knitting books, I ordered four more from Amazon last night – mostly due to looking up the link for the “Knitting with Dog Hair” book. That “page you made” feature on Amazon is evil – it keeps showing you things you want but would never know existed if they [...]
“…than from a sheep you’ll never meet”! What a great subtitle! I just had to pick up this book the other day. I’m not sure if I could ever bring myself to knit something out of dog fur, but we sure could collect enough if I wanted to. Plus, Molly has a lovely reddish-gold coat…and [...]
I can’t decide whether to block my sweater pieces. I’m done with the front and the back, and have been toying with the idea of sewing those together before starting the sleeves, mostly to double-check that it will fit. But seeing as it’s chenille yarn, I’m not sure how to go about blocking it. Will [...]
I finally finished another block in the quilt! I decided to put down my knitting for an evening, since I’m about half-done with the front of the sweater (I promise I’ll post some pics soon!) and I was very far behind on my quilt. This block gave me a lot of trouble, both because it’s [...]