For the Love of...
I feel a bit like Kate Hewlett every time I post something with 'sorry guys, I fell off the face of the internet for a bit'. I do though remember that I have a blog, I've just been busy, out of town, internetless, and hot (90's in June is insane). As it is I'm just popping in for a quick update.
I've had a lot of interest in the design I made up for Ravelry's birthday design competition and wanted to let you all know that I have prints and other items available for purchase on CafePress. There's also a smattering of photographic prints on there as well. Both of these can be found here.
I should be back with regular content soon. I haven't been doing much crafting but I do have some food related stuff and photos to share with you guys.
Kale Chips
Recently kale’s become quite a phenomenon, which is fine by me, even if finding kale chips in the snack food aisle still weirds me out. It’s quite possibly my favorite green, not because it’s packing with all sorts of awesome stuff but because it tastes so good, particularly when it’s been dehydrated or toasted up.There are lots of kale chip recipes out there, but my favorite ones will always be the ones at Making Love in the Kitchen. The idea behind making kale chips isn’t any different from making fries or any other sort of roasted goodness, which is a good thing because I’ve been bending the rules. It’s a bit like playing a game of chicken, how much kale can I fit in one glass baking pan, at how high a temperature before the kale burns between checks (generally at 10 – 15 minute intervals). The best results will always be at the original 300* with a thin layer of kale cooked until crispy. If you’re up for eating mass amounts (or would like to have some leftover for tomorrow) heaping a 9x13 full of kale at 350* (375* if you’re not using glass) and tossing every 10 or so minutes means you’ll have three or four times more kale in about half an hour.
May Knitting Projects
I don’t know what surprises me more, the fact that I finished a project this month or the fact that I’m blogging about not one project but two. I can say though, I am more than pleased that I finished these socks, they’re for an awesome friend of mine and I was a bit peeved they took me this long to sit down and finish. I would’ve cut myself a bit of slack, but I still owe her socks from Christmas (I was a bit overzealous in planning last year as usual).
This is a pair of Traveling Lace Vine socks from Writing and Living (rav link) made from some acrylic I had laying around. I used a standard toe up sock formula like this one from knitty and adjusted the stitch counts to account for the blukier yarn and larger needle size. While the orange isn’t an exact match to her school colors, it’s still spectacularly orange which is the important thing. I had originally planned on making a pair of Japanese Garden but I didn’t have my copy of the pattern with me.
These aren’t the greatest pics given my feet are mouse tiny compared to hers, but you get the idea.
Last month I knitted up a birthday present for another incredible person in my life. While her Christmas present is similarly delayed I knew I wanted to make her a headband. At first I thought I’d make it match her belated holiday gift, but in the end decided to poke around Ravelry first. Her favorite show at the moment is Sherlock so when I stumbled across a chart for the wallpaper in 221B Baker I knew I’d found my project. The crocheted smiley face is attached to a button so it can be detached or moved.
