In the United States we just celebrated Thanksgiving. The traditional meal consists of turkey. The trimmings vary from home to home and region to region. Do you still have any leftover turkey?
Last year I posted a chicken corn chowder recipe that I threw together. The post was about substitutions in recipes.
Well, I substituted again using the same chicken corn chowder recipe.
I used some leftover Thanksgiving turkey instead of the chicken.
Delicious.
Last night as I was sitting in my “knitting” chair surfing Pinterest on my iPad, a contented feeling came over me and I sat there thinking of how wonderful my life is right now.
We have family. We are healthy. We are safe. We are well-fed. We are comfortable. We have a roof over our heads. We have a nice house under that roof. We are warm. We have freedom of choice. We have employment. We have friends.
I was very humbled with those thoughts as not everyone can say those things.
And I am very thankful and very grateful for all my gifts from God.
I wanted to make some fingerless mitts for myself. Why Not? I’ve made at least 8 pairs and given them away. It’s my turn.
I loved the free pattern “Treads” so I started a pair for me a few weeks ago.
Then other things got placed ahead of the mitts.
I picked them back up yesterday and finished one. My gauge was off. It was way too big.
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Started it again.
Still not right.
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Started it a third time and realised I dropped a stitch below the Lateral Braid and there was no way to fix it.
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I gave up. I still love the pattern. It is well written and has excellent directions for making a Lateral Braid. I didn’t like the yarn I was using. And I must have short hands since the finished mitt did not fit my hand the way it does in the pattern.
How many times do you start or restart a pattern before abandoning it?
Last week Mr. Aitch and I went to our daughter’s new-to-her house to help do a makeover in her master bedroom as a surprise to her husband while he was out-of-town. Was that a run-on sentence?
I don’t have any before pictures and only one after picture but I really like the transformation.
The bedroom was institutional-minty-green with a queen size bed from IKEA. I’m not knocking IKEA (it is my favorite store) but it was time to grow up.
My daughter has bought old window frames in the past and used them in unique ways. When she was visiting us in September, she found some great old windows. We scrubbed them and made sure all the broken glass was removed. She wanted to transform them into a headboard for a new king-size bed.
She and her husband repainted the minty-green bedroom a nice soft grey the weekend before the great transformation took place.
He went out-of-town for business on that Monday. Mr. Aitch and I arrived at their house just after he left. Mr. Aitch kept the twins occupied while we marked the horizontal lines for the feature wall. The next day we painted three stripes in a lighter grey.
We covered cardboard (saved from moving boxes) that was cut to the window frame measurements with batting and a blue fabric that matched the new bedding (Martha Stewart Chantilly). We then inserted the covered cardboard into the frames and secured the frames to one another.
Once the new mattress was delivered, we secured the window frames to the wall as the new headboard.
She wants different night stands but the old ones will do for now.
The finished room:
Her husband was very pleasantly surprised with the transformation. Now he expects something new every time he goes out-of-town.
Knitting In Flashes 