Meatless Monday! Waldorf Salad

This Waldorf Salad recipe is out of this month's Cooking Light. I substituted carrots for the radicchio because I can't find it anywhere around here. I served myself this big plate full for my lunch the other day. I really liked it at first. I liked the bite of the steel cut oats. I liked the flavor combination of the sweet apples and grapes, with the savory blue cheese. But, then it got to be too much. If I make this again, I will only have it as a small side dish or just top a salad with a little bit of this.

Fibers on Friday

Hi everyone! Happy Fibers on Friday! I've had a long day. Actually a long week, so I'm going to publish this party without any pictures of my own. I ran out of yarn for my Multnomah Shawl. It was supposed to only take one skein, but I was misreading a part of the pattern and increasing too much for a little while. I don't think it's messing it up, so I'm not ripping it all out. I just need more yarn! I bought this in NJ before we moved. I called to see if my former yarn shop still had some to send me, but they didn't. Anyway, I found it on line and I'm good to go.

Until I have more to show you, I'll let you guys lead the way with show and tell!

Wordless Wednesday: Invasion of the Millipedes

Fibers on Friday: Pot Holder

Hello friends! Happy Fibers on Friday! I'm glad you're here to join this party dedicated to knitting and crocheting!

Because it's fiber related, and because I think it's a wonderful thing to do, please check out my post from yesterday about the Christmas Stocking for the latest Craft Hope project.

This week, in crocheting news, I made a pot holder. A Fanciful Flower Pot Holder, which can be found on ravelry. Oh it's gorgeous, isn't it?


I LOVE how it LOOKS. Love it! But, I'm very sad to say I burnt the ever loving snot outta myself when I tried to actually use it on a hot pan of cookies. Dropped the cookies. Cookies went splat. Burn on my thumb. Perhaps a couple profanities, but I can't be sure.

The patterns suggests that because of all the layers of ruffles, it should be perfectly usable. I say it probably is, but you have to be super careful to have it folded up perfectly so as to not be burned.

The yellow yarn is Lion brand Cotton. The fuschia is Cotton Fleece from Lamb's pride (I think). The aqua is from Knit Picks Dishies. The pattern is written without the very center part filled in. I simply made another little loopy magic ring thing and did a couple half double crochets and sewed it in with yellow yarn. I likey.

Craft Hope: Christmas in Dixie

I just finished sewing four Christmas Stockings for the current Craft Hope Project, Christmas in Dixie. This project feels good. If you knit, crochet, or sew you still have time to whip up a stocking or two before the deadline of September 23rd.

(Front)

(back)

I found this free pattern on-line. I totally overlooked the fact that the instructions make FOUR stockings. I thought I was just making one....and this had me BAFFLED as I cut sooooo many front and back pieces, lining fleece, and lining fabric. I was focused on the fact that the pattern said it yielded a finished, seamless, stocking that was beautiful inside and out. So, I'm moving along thinking "wow....it takes A LOT of fabric to make such a nice, finished stocking". Eventually I got to the point of asking my husband how on earth all this was going to come together and he broke it to me, "hon, you're making FOUR stockings." Well, that's wonderful. It's what I would have made anyway....BUT, I would have made four different, coordinating, stockings.

Nevertheless....that was my little brain spasm for the week and here we have FOUR IDENTICAL stockings that are lovely and beautiful and have a lot of love sewn into them in hope that the tornado survivors will have a little peace and happiness this Christmas.

The fabric I used came from Raspberry Creek Fabrics on Etsy. I won 5 coordinating yard of fabric last year....what a nice use for some of it!

Wordless Wednesday: 21 years in the Making

Fibers on Friday

Hi everyone! Welcome to Fibers on Friday! I hope you're all gearing up for a nice, long, final weekend of the summer. Unfortunately for us it's predicted to rain all weekend. Oh well, we have a bedroom to paint and maybe the girls and I can get some crafting on!

This week I worked on two crocheted flower patterns. This is one I found on Pinterest:

Source: made-in-k-town.blogspot.com via Beth on Pinterest

And here's mine:

I've been using this one as a mug rug, but these would be great sewn on a pillow or something. I had fun with it!

I also have a flower pot holder in the works, but it's a tangled mess of loose ends that need to be weaved in, so I'll show it to you next week when it's all finished and pretty.