Wednesday, August 15, 2012

No Yard Sales, A Cooking Slump – So Why Not Take Up Knitting?


Maybe because of the unbearably hot and humid weather, or my yardsale radar is down, but I am in a complete slump here with no place to pick cookware.  As a result, my cooking has completely gone into the yips, and my waistline expanding from the uninspiring take out food and BLTs (after all, what is summer without a couple of BLTs with Jersey tomatoes).  As a substitution, and perhaps as therapy to get myself back into some kind of creative groove, I have begun the process of re-teaching myself to knit and crochet.  As a young girl, I have many fond memories of crocheting, knitting and embroidering pillows, afghans, scarves – I even remember that I used to take my knitting to Red Sox games (in retrospective, I suppose that was a pretty geeky thing to do but like then, I cannot put the work down!  I am obsessed.)  In the course of one week, I have knit one afghan, started another, crocheted a potholder (yes, I am starting with the basics but I am practicing changing colors), started another, and my personal favorite – knit a pincushion, then felted it (my first!).  I love it.  Very Dr. Seuss-esque.  


My goal is to get decent enough to 'yarn bomb' cookware.  

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