Springtime bandit

Putting this little bandana in my repitoire of knitted goodies. Using noro silk garden sock for this one... So far so good!



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Cuteness

I think that one of the reasons I like Aaron is his ability to make interesting faces at the camera which always turn out strangely photogenic.


Here he is looking strangely French and funny. The scarf he's wearing is his Christmas scarf made from Misti alpaca. It's lovely stuff to knit with. His hat is an oldie but goodie in charcoal brown sheep worsted. All in all he's a good knitwear model:)

Just so he doesn't feel self conscious, here's a dorky pic of me tipsy and looking particularily hipster. Shameless!!!!





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Gary's mittlitts

So I finished Gary's Mittlitts the other day and luckily he likes them a bunch:)

I don't know if he'll like the fact that I call them Mittlitts (which isn't really a manly sounding name) but too bad - I made them so I get to name them

Tell me why I don't like Mondays

I'm heading to band practice and feeling particularily uninspired. The pates de fruit fiasco made it's way encore into my life after I tried resurecting the recipe using lichee fruit and peach. Although I made a valient effort, it again ended in a mushy gooey mess:(. I don't think I'll be cooking fruit again any time soon.

On the other hand, I finished liz's hat ( which is a nicer dupe of the entrelac hat) and am on to making Gary's fingerless mitts. Also a fairly uninspiring project, I'm starting to get antsy for doing something challenging.

I looked up some tesselations online and I think the mitts that I plan on making for myself will be based on some sort of pattern like that.

I also finished Szabo's baby sophisticate... Need to find me some good buttons though. Feeling unproductive... Need to take a day off work for some mental health/ crafty productiveness.



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Enterlac hat

I decided to branch out on my skills and try my hand at enterlac knitting. My first attempt was kind of sloppy ( didn't slip my 1st stitch which made for ridgy edges) but luckily my friend Iwona gave me a quick tutorial. The result: a just right sized enterlac hat. Will post the pattern soon.

Oddfellows

A-man and I decided to mix things up and have dinner at oddfellows. I had heard good thing about the place from my friend Kyle Brown so we decided to go.


The ambiance was really cute and ecclectic. One thing I liked is that they had stock ale on the beer list.


The dinner menu was pretty varried but we decided to go for the game stew.


All in all absolutely delicious. Nice big and melty pieces of lamb in a rich gravy, creamy potatos and tangy red cabbage. Definitly awesome and we have some to take home for later.

The emergency dress

This is the dress (skirt actually...) that I made the other day because I was having a work clothing emergency. Not bad eh?