Yarn Along

I nearly forgot to post this week.  Besides publishing the instructions for the Tsu Wrap last weekend, it’s been a pretty uneventful week, knitting-wise that is.

Shown here is my Quince & Co. yarn knitting project.  The yarn is not quite as grayish as the picture seems to convey.  Last week’s post shows it off better.  I’m making a pullover sweater for me.  I’ve been a selfish knitter lately.  I have one project of mine hanging over my head for a sweet nephew, but the stitch has been giving my arms cramps, and I can’t work on it for very long periods of time.  It’s a stitch I have to do when I’m relaxed, not a stitch I do to relax.

Anyway, what you see in front of you is the start to the pullover, but that’s not where I started.  In fact, this is about the 4th version of the start of the pullover.  I’m pleased to report, that I think it’s right now.  I’m trying to convince myself that designing a pattern myself allows me more knitting over and over with the same yarn.  It’s being frugal.  😉

My reading this week has not been deep.  I’m in a Spring cleaning craze, and I pulled out all my old Martha Stewart Living magazines from deep in the back of the upstairs closet that I’m going through.

I found one issue that was missing.  December 2002.  Best.  Issue. Ever.  I’ve done about every craft in that issue.  I’ve made nearly every recipe.  Some things in this issue are part of our household’s Christmas traditions.  It was published the year Knut and I got married, so that may be why.  It was our first Christmas together.

It was lost last Christmas, and I couldn’t find the chocolate truffle recipe for it (at least the right one) on their website.  I’m not sure if I was more excited to find it or Knut.  (The mocha truffles are his favorite at Christmas!  I’m more of a sugar cookie girl.)

Of my 4 years worth of this magazine, I think I’ve narrowed it down to 3 issues to keep.  I love their gardening themed issues, but I’ve found that several of the ideas in there don’t apply to my planting zone.  It’s directed heavily to the coasts.  I’m letting Silje go through them and see if she wants to keep any.  She’s in heaven.  She wants to keep them all and I told her she gets 5.  That made her very sad.

I don’t have a subscription there anymore.  The magazine has changed so much since it first came out.  It used to be thick and full of simple pleasures of life.  It was like a guide to homemaking for a generation who knew nothing about the profession.  Now it’s thin, glossy, and full of advertisements.  I suppose every market tries to increase their profits.  I can’t say I blame them.  I just don’t get the magazine anymore.

(For those wondering, the other 2 magazines I’m keeping are February 2002, and January 2006)    February 2002 because there are so many amazing, breathtaking, make-you-gasp-in-delight chocolate recipes.  That one won’t be leaving my house.  None of their “chocolate issues” since have even touched this issue.  The 2006 one is thin and glossy, but it’s a huge cake issue where they have a different cake theme for each month of the year and I always promised myself I’d make each one because each one looks amazing.  So far I’ve only made 1 of them.  Getting rid of that copy is like crossing off one item on my bucket list that has not been accomplished and I’m just not okay with that idea at this time.  Because that one cake I made was so good…