Loving Frank Update: Failure. Book club is in 2 hours and I’ve got 100+ pages to go. I admit defeat.
Just got the newsletter out and I’m so excited about the Treefree Paper Yarn Knitted Cuff Classes! You remember when I was working with this a few months ago. Hopefully this handmade yarn will be in in the next couple weeks and ready to be worked with in July. Curious about knitting with paper? Sign up! Especially since this stuff is better than paper. Read all about it at Rich’s site.
Beaded Cuff
In class we will be knitting a beaded cuff and a lace cuff.
Laced Paper Cuff
The Treefree Yarn is included in the price of the class, and you will knit two cuffs whether you sign up for the two night project class on July 8th and 15th, or the workshop class on Sunday, July 26th from 1-4.
Yesterday, still feeling bad about the food (?) we ate Friday night, PT and I decided the dinner party we had planned would be some amazing pasta. Our food soul mates Kasia and Anders came over so we weren’t afraid to get a little crazy.
Table Ready!
PT and I handmade some pasta, baked some fish, cooked up some mussels and shrimp in some spicy sauce, and sat down to eat.
Seafood Pasta, Beet Salad
Spicy was an understatement. See how pretty it is? I couldn’t even eat it. But luckily the spice level was perfect for PT, Kasia, and Anders, who seemed pleased. PT even ate what I couldn’t, so it must have been good.
Next time less adobo. Mental note made.
Loving Frank Cram Session 2009 – I’m up to page 182! Which is halfway. With three reading days left I’m on my 60 pages a day pace to finish by Knitting Book Club Monday. I haven’t forced myself to read this much for a deadline since my Columbia days.
Remember back in 2008 when I had a beet off? I knew I was supposed to like beets but had no idea what to do with them? I put them in a salad and wanted to die. I cooked them up with onions and garlic and also wanted to die. But I just knew that beets and I would someday get along, I just couldn’t think of a way to do it on my own.
Beet Salad
Behold the Mark Bittman Beet Salad. What is amazing is that in the same picture you can see the fanciest thing PT and I have ever made. And maybe the most delicious.
With no food processor we just used a garlic press and chopped the walnuts. Without orange juice we used lemon juice. We roasted those beets, we mixed them up in the dressing, we did top it with some fresh Parmesan (AMAZING!), and served it over romaine.
Last night beets and I turned a corner. Thank goodness, because I really don’t want to live in a world where I don’t like a vegetable.
List of foods I don’t like:
Olives (including green and black, especially black)
The end.
Summer Sweater
Not only have I been making progress on Loving Frank, but I’ve been rocking out this Summer Sweater! Don’t you love the little leaves? I also love a sweater where I don’t have to worry about the sizing. It is supposed to hang! And with tonight’s impromptu car trip to the suburbs for a very special evening, I’ll be able to get even more done.
But more on that later.
First of all, I’m on page 79 of Loving Frank! I figured out that if I read 60 pages a day I’ll finish by Monday. Today I need to get to 120, so I’m well on my way. Lots of sex and shirt waist ripping makes for excellent afternoon reading.
Last night I got to thinking about the sweater I’m knitting for Sweater Club. I knew I had a half finished sweater I hated laying around here somewhere that I was planning on ripping out so I could use that yarn for the sweater. While looking for it, though, I struck gold.
Knit Picks ShineSport! Four Skeins!
I completely forgot I bought seven skeins of Knit Picks ShineSport like three years ago for a sweater, started it and seriously hated every minute of it. I have four of this Cherry and three Butter. It is the perfect yarn for the sweater! I found the light blue half finished sweater, too, but that yarn would have been a lot harder to work with. The Knit Picks is a cotton blend, which softens it up.
Can't Stop Myself
So I of course got really excited about the yarn and had to start the pattern. But I figured if I kept up with my reading I could reward myself with a tiny bit of knitting, right?
The lacy leaf pattern is really fun! I love the yarn overs and the three stitch decreases. It makes me want to knit it. (glances lovingly at the 11 rows already on the needle) It is a nice change of pace from the socks. Once you finish turning that heel its over, just ribbing for like 14 inches. (glances lovingly at her two pairs of pretty self stripped socks)
So, my next few days are pretty set. Knit through baseball, read while not knitting. I’m expecting another great series for the Tigers this weekend and it is a good thing since this pattern takes a little concentration. I don’t need to be screaming and throwing things AND trying to lace! No one deserves that.
