Happy Friday!
April 29, 2011
We have a great weekend planned, starting with seeing our good friend Maura in her first trapeze performance. The rest of the weekend consists of cleaning, organizing, purging things, and repainting our bedroom. The warmer temperatures have settled into town, here, and it is making it hard to be in a bad mood. Spring has finally arrived.
Have a good weekend, friends!
Shetland Trader comes to Philly!
April 15, 2011
Hey friends. Just popping in real quick to let you know that Gudrun Johnston, the Shetland Trader, is headed to Philly tonight.
She’ll be at Rosie’s Yarn Cellar tomorrow, Saturday April 16, 11am-5:30pm, for a book signing and trunk show. If you are local enough to come by, you should! Her designs are gorgeous and she’s a really awesome person!
Happy Holidays!
December 26, 2010
Christmas has passed and Philadelphia is bracing itself for the onslaught of a snowstorm today. I hope you are keeping warm and toasty with the ones you love.
Here are some shots from the past couple of weeks.
November Wrap-up
December 2, 2010
Well, that month flew by. So much for posting daily. I guess I’m just not cut out for that kind of regimented activity right now.
December is here, and the holiday season is officially underway. Before we finish off 2010, I’d like to blog about the many things I’ve found myself doing these past months. I’ve hinted at a couple, and even my Flickr site is woefully behind in showing the highlights. Let’s work backwards, shall we?
I headed up to New York to visit my parents for Thanksgiving. While my Grandmother cooked a turkey for the rest of the crew, I made myself some seitan to accompany my meal. This was the first time I sauteed seitan with mesquite bbq and holy moly was it delicious. We usually cook seitan, in Casa-Knitting by Bicycle, with Soyaki but my parents do not know of this delicious nectar. So scouring the shelves for the right kind of sauce, I stumbled upon the bbq that was smokey, savory, and sweet. Perfect, really. Now Kasy and I are talking of how to make bags of mesquite seitan jerky to snack on while bike touring.
[my plate at Thanksgiving. Seitan is in the background of the plate.]
A few days before Thanksgiving, Kasy and I were the happy hosts to some lovely people from Boston. You may know who I’m talking about? Ann Weaver and her husband came down to Philadelphia for the weekend, while Ann had a trunk show at Rosie’s Yarn Cellar for her new book, Craft Work Knit.
They were such a delight to host, since they are bike people and beer people too. We drank, we ate, we chatted lots, we rode bikes around the city. Ann’s designs are gorgeous. Fun fact? Her Neiman sweater was one of my first favorites when I started picking up knitting again in a serious way years ago. It had just been published in Knitty and I vowed one day to make it. Granted, that day hasn’t come yet, but I’ve had yarn earmarked for it in my stash for years now.
Anyways. You need to get her book (available both as an e-book and hard copy. May I suggest the hard copy? It is gorgeously printed and worthwhile to add to the shelf). I have plans to make many things inside of it, and my mom has already requested an Albers Cowl of her own, after seeing Ann’s in person at Rhinebeck.
Ann. Chris. You guys are always welcome at our house in South Philly.
Next up? Quidditch. Knitting. And more bike stuff.
Views from last month
November 7, 2010
So my attempt at blogging daily is not actually happening. At least this month will be a “blogging more often” exercise for me.
Not having many words this morning (due to not making coffee yet), I leave you with some photos from last month, when we went camping near Cape May, NJ —
These days
November 4, 2010
I had every intention of blogging yesterday, especially since I had a lovely few hours with Ms. Through the Loops and Ms. Choo Choo Knits.
We stopped by Loop and Rosie’s Yarn Cellar, since they had never been to either, and then had a long lunch with knitting and chit chat. I wore my Ulmus for the occasion!
Then back to the grind I went. Yesterday involved doing work (for my job) and doing work (on the house).
We’ve seen a lot of this lately:
Just grabbed our tent…
October 1, 2010
With home renovations on the high this summer, we haven’t had much of a chance to get out into the woods in a tent. This weekend we aren’t going to be in the woods, but we will be in a tent near Cape May. Just us, good company, a great dog, a fire, some wine, and laughter in this lovely camping temperature.
Happy October, friends!
