Posted in embroidery, tagged color, embroidery, embroidery floss, family, love on January 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Over the holidays, the unthinkable happened. My mom gave me her boxes of embroidery floss.
These boxes are full of at least 100 colors of embroidery floss, each wound on a card with that color’s number written on it in my mother’s beautiful, perfect handwriting. I honestly couldn’t believe it when she gave them to me. [...]
Posted in embroidery, tagged backstitch, color, embroidery, French knots, orange, presents, split stitch, stem stitch on December 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Mischief is afoot in the form of some secret embroidery.
Stay tuned for further developments. Hopefully one of those developments will be the continuing improvement of my French knots…
Posted in knitting, tagged color, hell yes, knitting, noro, scarf, sparkles on December 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Here’s a little logic exercise for you.
A. If it’s Noro and sparkly, then hell yes.
B. It’s Noro Aurora.
C. It’s sparkly.
D. On sale at the yarn store
Therefore: Hell yes.
Premise D wasn’t necessary, but sure was the deciding factor.
Behold the Multidirectional Scarf, knit in Noro Aurora on size 5 needles. I don’t think I’m capable of not [...]
Posted in cooking, food, vegan, vegetarian, tagged artichokes, beets, brussels sprouts, carrots, color, onions, sweet potatoes, vegan, Vegan MoFo, vegetables on October 24, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Dinner last night was very pretty. Witness:
I decided to roast some vegetables in the oven. What you see is a mix of:
- Brussels sprouts
- Torpedo onion
- Carrots
- Red and gold beets
- Sweet potatoes (white and orange-ish)
Roasting vegetables is so easy and really quick! All you need to know about how to roast vegetables is:
- Cut [...]
Posted in cooking, food, knitting, vegetarian, tagged beans, burgundy, Cascade 220, color, February Lady Sweater, knitting, tomatoes, vegetarian on September 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today’s blog post is brought to you by the color burgundy.
These are some cranberry shelling beans I bought at the farmers’ market. Check out the pods! I think they were referred to as “tongues of fire” beans, and I couldn’t resist. The beans have beautiful cranberry speckles when shelled. Unfortunately, the speckles disappear when cooked.
Pretty [...]
Posted in food, sustainability, tagged color, conserving, embroidery, farmers' market, local food, peppers, purple, sublime stitching, tomatoes, vegetables on September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alarm clock goes off. 6 AM on a Saturday. Gross. I flop out of bed and manage to grab a hoodie and my keys through the fog of slumber. There are a few cats meandering the streets, but that’s about it. It’s early. It’s dark. I’m tired.
But I’m happy. Or I will be. Early Saturday [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged color, knit, knitting, koigu, purple, socks on September 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For the first time in a long time, I’ve finished a complete pair of socks.
These are totally going to be the socks I wear almost daily for a while, and probably with the shoes you see pictured here, too*. Don’t they look great together?
I bought this yarn while I was on vacation in New York, [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged color, knitting, noro, scarf on September 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Knitting content! As promised.
I recently completed a striped Noro scarf (brought to my attention in brooklyntweed’s blog), made out of a total of four skeins of Noro Silk Garden. I’ve always loved Noro colors, and this scarf didn’t let me down.
I was so happy to get a sunny day so I could get a decent [...]
