Cookies!

When I was working in Cornwall, I was introduced to Jaffa Cakes by a British coworker who swore they were the best thing the English had ever invented. Jaffa Cakes are a small cookie shaped snack, which is a 2 inch or so disk of sponge cake covered with a tangy sweet orange jam, and then covered in dark chocolate. Addictive to say the least, and it's been almost 3 years since my last Jaffa Cake.

Unfortunately I've never seen anything like them here in the states, or in Japan. So I was surprised to see Jaffa Cake look-a-likes at the market today.
They are LU Pim's (which are described as soft biscuits rather than cakes.) They are very very good! The molded chocolate with the Pim's logo on it kinda takes away from the Jaffa Cake experience, but it's still a good match. Talk about fulfilling food cravings! All I need is to do now is find me a place that sells lamb and mint pasties and I'll be happy ^_^

reasons why knitting is not getting done #245

When the weather is so beautiful out,
can you blame me for venturing outside instead of knitting? ^_^

In Oregon, spring weather is so temperamental,
you've got to enjoy the sunshine and summer like weather when you have the chance. :)
We went for a walk out to the Willamette river and looped back through campus to see this gorgeous tulip tree. I don't know exactly what kind of tree it is, but it has huge flowers blooming on it that look like tulips.

20 page paper = procrastination = knitting?!?

Forgive me, I've been reading and writing about nothing but syphilis and prostitutes in early modern Japan for the last 2 weeks. So I have this 20 page essay in this Medical and Social History of Japan class this term. It's worth 40% of my grade for the term...and it is killing me to write it. Did I mention it's due in on Monday?

So instead of writing, I keep taking one hour 20-30 minutes breaks to knit the Earth^2 blanket. There is so much blanket love right now.Instead of keeping with the straight stockinette I had planned (it was boring me to tears) I snitched the waffle stitch from cosmic pluto's amazing Thermal sweater, and added some big waffley stripes!

And back to radio silence until this paper is done!

Grey's Anatomy is ❤

I found this button here.
I admit it, I'm a little addicted to Grey's Anatomy.
Since I'm also a little addicted to knitting, why not combine the two addictions, right?
Apparently I'm not the first one to think of this!
It cracked me up when Meredith and Izzie randomly started knitting on the show, even in the observation deck of the surgery room. (^o^)

The doggie sweater is done!

Okay, so this very pink doggie sweater was promised sometime in the summer of 2006.
I didn't buy the yarn for it until November, and didn't start knitting it until the beginning of December.

Regardless of the amount of time I spent procrastinating knitting this sucker, I am really happy it's completed without any major hitches. I just hope it fits the cutest dog in the world, since I can't try it on her in person. Normally I avoid anything that involves seaming and shaping and picking up stitches, hence the lack of sweaters and other large knitted pattern heavy FOs.
Let's just call this mini-sweater a small step toward the garment making direction.

Casey's Coat from Stitch n' Bitch Nation
Yarn: Less than a ball of some generic sport weight acrylic i found at Ben Franklin's
US 4/3.5mm bamboo circulars and dpns
Because I knit this sweater at a much smaller gauge than the suggested pattern, I knit with the instruction for the medium size dog sweater.Other than that, I followed the pattern pretty faithfully.

I finished the sweater last night, and started on the afghan I've been dreaming of!
I'm using Paton's Classic Merino in Natural Mix, Deep Olive, and Chestnut Brown,
some very earthy mellow colors.
I'm thinking stockinette squares alternating colors with a seed stitch border.