Pattern: Owlet by Kate DaviesYarn: Cascade 220 SuperwashNeedles: 8 and 9 DPNs My only totally committed Christmas knitting is done. This is for my niece, and it’s so cute. The pattern is super easy to work with – this would a good project for pretty much anyone. The yarn is lovely – really soft. I […]
So what do you do when the CSA gives you a pound of green tomatoes? Pickle them! You’ll notice a bit of orange – a couple had started to turn a bit toward ripeness by the time I got to them, but were definitely still of green tomato consistency, so I just cut them up
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. In the 12th century, the overly ambitious head of the Shrewsbury Abbey has been on the look out for the relics of a saint he could bring back to the abbey to increase the pilgrims that come there. When he hears the tales of Saint Winifred, who’s buried
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Let the Christmas knitting begin! This is Kate Davies’ Owlet sweater, which I’m making for my niece. I’m using Cascade 220 Superwash yarn in a purple shade that’s a bit too dark to really be lavender. The beginning’s gone pretty well – I’ve gotten halfway up the body in one night.
Since I was already on the far Uptown side of Manhattan, I took the subway back down to Central Park, and walked through on the 85th street cut through, which goes by Belvedere Castle. You can climb all the way up into the tower, and there are some great views from there. The castle is
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On Wednesday, I started the day with the looong subway ride up to the Cloisters. If you take the A train to the 190th Street stop, it puts you out right at the entrance to Fort Tryon. It’s then a ten minute walk through the park to the museum. There’s also a bus, if you
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Holy seething mass of humanity, Batman! Now, I really do live in a city. It’s the largest city in my state, even. Walking through Times Square made me feel like I’m from some village in the absolute middle of nowhere. I swear there were more people packed into that square than live in all of
After the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, I took the subway over to DUMBO, grabbed some lunch at Almondine, and took that down to the Brooklyn Bridge Park. There are great views of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, as well as the Manhattan skyline. Really great place to have lunch on a warm day. Once I was
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Pattern: Rimefrost by Anne HansonYarn: Dream in Color Smooshy in the Goodluck Jade colorwayNeedles: 1.5 DPNs The Rimefrost socks for K are done! It was nice making socks again. I’d forgotten how oddly satisfying it is turning a heel. This pattern was nice – the pattern repeat is long enough to not be
On Tuesday morning, I hit the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. I was all excited because I was going to be able to use my Reciprocal membership from our Botanical Garden, and it turns out it’s free on Tuesday anyway. The coolest thing in bloom at the moment was the water lily collection. That happened to be
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