The shoe problem

Thu, 12 Mar 2009

As I wrote previously, I've been moving towards wearing hand-knitted socks. For the most part this has been fabulous, but it did uncover a lack in my wardrobe: black shoes. It's not that I don't own any black shoes; I have at least about five pairs. It's simply that they're all at least moderately formal [...]

Fresh fettuccine

Mon, 2 Mar 2009

Several years ago Jeff's mother gave us a pasta maker. I think we used it once, though I don't actually remember doing so. (I do remember trying to roll pasta dough by hand, which didn't work terribly well.) The machine has sat in the closet for at least as long as we have been in [...]

Return of the Flippy Gloves

Sun, 1 Mar 2009

Four years ago, I knitted gloves for Jeff. These were not just any gloves; they were fingerless, with a mitten-top that could flip forward to cover the fingers. I even made the thumb flippy by means of a large buttonhole. (I have never seen either gloves or a glove pattern with a flippy thumb; I [...]