Report on the roast !

Roast was yummy. I would only cook for 5 hours instead of 6. It didn't need the extra hour. The cheaper the cut of beef the longer you would need to cook it.
It was a little sweet and I see why they describe it as "Kid friendly". If you don't like "weeds" (onion bits) in your gravy just strain it. I ended up with a lot of gravy that just needed to be thickened with corn starch and add a little salt. This would be great as "Beef on a bun" just fork shred the beef and put it all back into the pot. Suggestion for Super Bowl parties. It passed the "man" test.

Fair Isle mittens

I am getting very aggravated. I have started a pair of fair Isle mitts about 3 times. First the rosewood needles I bought were too small. So I dug out some casein needles I had. They are too long. The rib is alright but the pattern in the mitts is lumpy. My Fair Isle knitting is flat thank you very much and these mitts are just not up to standard. I bought some Misti Alpaca yarn for the job. Yummy and soft and warm. BUT I am not happy with the fair Isle transition from one needle to the other. I am knitting with 4 needles in the round. So, now I think I will knit them flat and then sew up the side seam. Seems like a cop out but if I add one extra stich and use a mattress stitch the seam will be invisible. Crap, it also means I have to purl in fair Isle...sigh....
I found the pattern whilst "googling" in "Google Images". It is amazing what you can find if you type in a subject and then google in images instead of the just the web.
I can't show you a picture cause my daughter reads this and I want to surprise her (*waves to Feyrhi).

Cola Roast

Today I am being experimental. I bought a crock pot book at Loblaws and came across this really interesting recipie. Here goes:
1 - 3 pound roast ( I can knit and sew metric but I still cook Imperial)
1 - envelope Lipton's onion soup mix
2 - cans Coca cola
5 quart crock pot

Srinkle the soup over the roast pour in the pop and cook on high for 1 hour then low for 5-6 hours.
Now how is that for easy?

Did you know?
If you take the lid off the crock pot while cooking you extend the cooking time by 20 minutes!!
When cooking the crock pot should only be half full. The hot moist air above the food is need to cook properly.
I will let you know how it turns out.

Whatever happened to...?

I have been trying for years to find a lost pattern. Once upon a time..long long ago the Toronto Star published a pattern advertisement. It was buried in the classifieds I think. You never knew what they were going to advertise. It could be a sewing pattern or knitting, embroidery, smocking what ever. My mother used to order the "Grace Knott Dots" for smocking from this advert. I ordered a lot of patterns for children's clothes as well. When Julia was a baby.....um 2007 minus 1976 equals ...
no than can't be right?...crap...sheesh...anyway like I said a long time ago I bought this crochet pattern. It was for a zig zag poncho. Which I crocheted in a denim blue yarn. I also changed the pattern into a cape and used reindeer horn buttons. I wore that cape till it fell apart. It was the handiest thing and because it was a neutral denim colour it went with everything with out screaming "Look at me I am a poncho". Every time the weather turns cool I think of that handy thing.

...cherry cloloured silk.

Sometimes a phrase, a word or a tune lodges in your memory. I love the sound of "cherry coloured silk." This is a line from one of my favourite Beatrix Potter books, "The Tailor of Glouster." (Sunday afternoon I watched the movie "Miss Potter") I had all the books when I was a child and even found a copy on cassette tape, read by Claire Bloom, for my children .

Having said all that, I have a weakness for all things cherry, jam, jubilee and lately mohair.
Aha you say, now she is going to mention the Knitter's Fair.
I met my daughter there and we had a marvelous time. Our plan was to have a walk around first and then begin the serious task of spending money.
Half way around we spotted these pewter buttons. OMG they look very "elfin" to me so we each bought 3.
In the latest vogue Knitting, 25th anniversary issue, there is a mohair coat in a dark colour. I have to have this coat so I decided that was going to be my major purchase. I was looking for something safe, neutral and practical. That would be IF I was shopping with my mother. I was shopping with my daughter remember? Suddenly we both glam onto this CHERRY coloured mohair from Fleece Artist, Nova Scotia's finest. I need reassurance from everyone that I can "carry" a cherry coloured coat. It is so gorgeous.
Now I see my daughter has referred to me as the blond bombshell so I guess I have no worries..lolol

I'm goin' shoppin'..happy dance

It is the KW Knitter's Fair on Saturday. Now, It is a given that I will buy something. Or maybe a couple of somethings.....just fess up and say I am going on a "yarn bender." Whaw hooo!

Memento Mori

It's Latin for, Remember Me, and it's a hint for my Nanowrimo project for November. So I was googling "Memento Mori" for some ideas when I came across this artist, "Kako Ueda's Cut paper Art"

This is made with an exacto knife and paper. totally amazing!

Go to the link and see some of her other stuff!!

These things are addictive!

Congratulations! You are Catarina of Aragon.
Catarina was Henry's first wife and was probably the only one of his six wives to truly love him. He tired of her, and she spent the last decade of her life in lonely exile. Yet when she was dying, alone and unloved, she wrote: "Lastly, I make this vow, that mine eyes desire thee above all things. Farewell."




Which of Henry VIII's wives are you?

Who would have guessed?......lolol

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I Should Have Stood Outside!

So here is the thing. I should have stood outside and had Kelly at Needles and Pins just toss the yarn out the door. Sigh....I really have a "fibre addiction."


I battled the traffic after work yesterday and dashed over to the shop. Traffic on Oxford at Richmond around 4 pm is a white knuckle ride...howsomeever...I made it ( was there ever any doubt?) I have now added 2 more colours to the vest for Michael. I decided I needed a blue grey, the variegated is knitting up very brownish. Then I saw a medium teal the same tone as the rose brown..soooooooooooo I bought 'em too. OoHH and then there was this really neat orphan ball of browns and golds ON SALE. Yup, got that too. It is for the stash. I have been collecting off whites for a sweater but it was looking a little boring. It needed some punch. Punch the wallet more like! There goes my spending money for next week. I did get the one skein of variegated that I went for plus plus. I just love colour!
This is my all time favourite Fair Isle Book. Corinne bought me this for Christmas in 1989. When I was sorting out my library of knitting books to pass on the Julia this one was on the top of my "keep" list.