Knitter With A Point

Like many people in the midst of this social distancing, I’ve decided to try my hand at making sourdough bread. A few weeks ago I began making my starter, feeding it every day and watching it grow. Since then, I’ve tried making a few loaves - some more successful than others! The last one I made was the best yet, but there is definitely still some room for improvement. I think next I will try scoring the bread a little bit deeper, and using less steam for a slightly harder crust.

Focusing on the good things, instead of the bad.

salmon salad

pre-social distancing hike

roommate Easter brunch

new friend

smoothie bowl

banana bread

pretending it’s summer

making dough

wearing knit items

more pre-social distancing hikes

Since it's cold today, let's make socks!

This year, we decided that our Rhinebeck projects would be matching shawls made out of gradient sets that we got at Rhinebeck last year. Didn’t they turn out great? Also, ten points to all of us for actually having them done in time (minus some blocking). Another ten points to Kylie for somehow also knitting a Rhinebeck sweater - I don’t know how she does so much!

More Rhinebeck! Thanks to Kylie for the photos.

1) Showing off our fancy friendship shawls (On the Spice Market)

2) I finally got to do chopstick knitting! I didn’t win, but it was super fun and I’ve always wanted to do it but never have before.

3) Heather lives for these cider donuts. Those and the frisbee dogs!

Galaxy Socks

This is a tale of a project languishing for a very long time, despite the fact that this yarn is gorgeous. I purchased this yarn (Into the Whirled, Pakokku Sock) at Rhinebeck in 2016, and despite grand intentions of knitting it up right away, it sat sadly in the bottom of my yarn trunk for a year and a half. I finally decided to knit them into socks, and at this point, I even got so far as to finish 99% of the process before leaving them to languish once more with no ends woven in the yarn pile of doom. Enter the MCAT - a truly terrible standardized test that drives you to the worst levels of procrastination, such as catching up on laundry and weaving in hundreds of ends. On the plus side, now I have a pair of wool socks ready just in time for our 32ºC heatwave... 

Stay tuned for more procrastination project finishes!

In May, my mom and I went to the Netherlands and Belgium to visit family and to do some sightseeing. Highlights of the trip include the Keukenhoff, Efteling, and a kayaking trip.

Lowlights include my phone and passport getting soaking wet on said kayaking trip, so we had to visit the military police in the Netherlands to have my passport validated, so ensure that I could get home. I also had an expensive time replacing the passport and phone when I made it home (which I did, luckily!)

I finally finished the sweater that I’ve had on my needles since August! I had taken quite a break from it to knit Christmas presents, but following the holidays I picked it back up again and was determined to finish it.

I love how it turned out! There’s enough positive ease to make it just the right amount of oversized, without looking too huge on me. Funny story - when I first blocked it, I tried to lay it out flat to dry, and it grew so much that it could have fit a gorilla. My friends tried to convince me that it couldn’t be that bad, but one look at it and they were laughing so hard they cried. It was, in fact, that bad. After some some frantic research regarding the yarn, I realized it was superwash, wet it again and threw it in the dryer to dry. Thankfully that worked, and I’ll have to do that from now on when I wash it!