by StephCat | Jun 28, 2010 | Food & Wine, Knitting, Triathlon
So….I made soup with some leftover bread (which Dave had made the day before, bread machine — a cliche wedding gift that we really have used over the past 9 (9!!!) years) and the tomatoes. I did choose to add a can of tomato paste. Ingredients: Olive oil...
by StephCat | Jun 27, 2010 | Knitting, Reviews & Interviews
The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design by Shannon Okey, Cooperative Press, 2010, 247 pp, $22.95. Available as a book and/or a PDF. This book, the only one specific to the business of knitwear design, is already being touted as the book current designers...
by StephCat | Jun 25, 2010 | Food & Wine, Yard & Garden
I just picked 31 tomatoes off the Cherokee Purple plant.  I’m amazed at how prolific this thing is. We’re not doing anything special to it. Shoot, we’re not even watering it really. There’s only so much caprese salad you can eat. Perhaps...
by StephCat | Jun 24, 2010 | Knitting, Reviews & Interviews
Aran Lace, Annie Maloney, 2010. $29.95 This isn’t a slickly produced, glossy-paged book. It’s spiral bound, 8.5×11″, with a clear plastic cover over the cardstock front cover. All photos, charts and text are black and white. It’s not...
by StephCat | Jun 23, 2010 | Knitting
Pippin’s shoulder straps are pretty darn cute. That’s all I’ve knit on it today so far. I did spend the last day re-drafting the pattern as top down rather than bottom up. I’m hoping to get as much knitting done as possible through this weekend...
