Week 7: Hooray for Long Weekends!

I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend. Thanks, Washington and Lincoln, for the extra day to catch up!
On to the projects!

#7: Taught someone how to knit i-cord!
S was visiting from out of town, and she is a super fast learner and picked it up in an instant (even half asleep). She wanted to make a headphone sweater like mine, and that's basically a long i-cord that splits in two. I can't wait to see the finished project.

#8: Taxes
Nothing is sure in life except for...

#9: Chocolate Leaves:

(clear and simple directions from otchi potchi)

Week 5: No shadow!

The groundhog didn’t see his shadow this week, so it’s a good a time as any to get started on garden plans for the spring. I started some seeds this week (heirloom tomatoes (red & yellow), cherry tomatoes, and bright lights chard) and will finish starting the rest of the seeds soon (probably beans, peas, and spinach).

I got caught up in work, so didn’t end up doing any food projects this week, though I did make a quick and delicious pan fried halibut for dinner on Sunday. Looking forward to some out of town visitors in the upcoming weeks, so hopefully we’ll get a chance to cook together and I’ll have some fun food to post.

However, I did finish two craft projects. Apologies for the terrible photos - all my photos are poorly lit, I think my next project should be a lightbox!

#6: An Angry Bird!

#5: Finished knitting the headphone sweater. They even have a knitted version of the little loop. (previously)

And progressed a bit more on the sweater which is taking forever! Now named the Spare Minute Sweater, because that’s when I get to work on it.

Week 4: Goodbye, January!

This week, I…

Made a 3 mushroom risotto, with from-scratch chicken and vegetable stock. Yum. Risotto is such a delicious and relatively uncomplicated dish, I should post a recipe sometime. I usually use pre-prepared stock, which makes it even easier.

Did a little more work on the sweater.

Started a new project, iPod earbud sleeve. It's knit, so it's kind of like a sweater for the earbuds.

Week 3: Happy Birthday, M!

This weekend, my friend M brought us all to an art studio where one can work with glass and ceramics. She's very creative, and we all had a lot of fun making things. I wish I’d gotten a photo of everyone’s work - flowers, abstract art, fireworks!, an adorable Pac Man ghost, a fancy cereal bowl, and more great things. We have to wait a bit for the people at the studio to fire our projects, so it’s exciting to anticipate how everything will turn out.

I decided to make some fused glass jewelry. A pair of cuff links - the letters in the SF Giants logo are separate instead of overlapping, in case there’s any loss of detail. Some pendants. And, it’s super dorky, but the one on the bottom left is meant to represent Boron, a component of some glass! The dichroic glass kind of looks like chunks of boron, and the copper loops on the left are a p orbital.

Week 2: Oh, January

It’s only January, and I’m already behind with the New Year’s resolutions of a) working regular hours, and b) completing and posting projects every week. Oops! I actually have to get some work done this afternoon, but before that, I will try to rectify the situation a bit.
Here’s what I’ve been working on:

I started knitting a purple shrug / cardigan.

Completed Project #3: A charm and a little box to hold it. For scale, I think the cupcake/acorn is about the size of a dime.

Edit (01/23): The recipient thought the cupcake looked like an acorn, and it kind of does! 

Completed Project #2: Rainbow Curtain (with morning sunshine streaming in).

Can’t remember what I originally intended to do with this fabric, but now it cheers me up on dreary winter mornings! Definite help from mom on this one.