If I can put my FABULOUS wrap sandwich down long enough to type, I will introduce myself and get on with posting my very first blog entry...
BTW, the wrap is a whole wheat lavash with alfalfa sprouts and a black bean and corn salsa I make regularly. The salsa is one can of black beans (rinsed and drained) one can of corn niblets, 1/2 med. red onion diced, 1/4 cups chopped fresh cilantro leaves, 1/4 cup storebrand mango vinegarette dressing, salt and pepper to taste. My local grocery sells their brand of refridgerated dressings in the produce section and that's where I get the mango vinegarette. TRUST ME! If you make this even once, you will find yourself making it again and again and again and serving it with grilled chicken, pork, beef or shrimp; eating it with chips, over a salad or right out of the bowl! It's yummy and pretty good for you too.
OK - now to why I'm really starting a blog...FIBER.
I loooooooooooooooooove fiber. Wool especially. There is just nothing like the feel and versatility of it. I dye it, spin it, weave it, knit it and felt it...and occasionally pick a strand of it out of my food. That's the price a fiber freak must pay.
I just finished a felted bowl that I am very proud of. I, like many fiber people, happened across the pattern in ONE SKEIN that I finally got my hands on at my local library. The pattern is now engrained on my tiny, fiber brain and I use it as more of a guideline...for those of you wondering about the title of my entry, it's a line from the original Pirates of the Carribean movie where Elizabeth is trying to express to the other pirates that the "pirate code" is more like a guideline. That's how I feel about most knitting patterns. They're more like guidelines and I adjust them as I see fit. Hang the code!
Socks are another good example...once you understand the formula, you can knit socks out of any weight of yarn.
Back to my bowl...Sea Anenome...it really looks like one. I knit this sucker up last night and felted it this morning in my washing machine....which, oh by the way, has seen more felting projects lately than laundry...don't bring this topic up with hubby...I know it's a sore subject.
So, this is my first blog and I'm not too familiar with how posting works and I don't even know if anyone is going to ever READ this, so I won't go into dirty details about how many stitches and what brand of yarn, etc. , etc., etc. I don't read that stuff on most other blogs unless it turns out to be something I, too, would like to make. BUT, if you're interested in a pattern, email me and I will do the best I can to write it out for you.
Check out my etsy shop too, while you're at it! The bowl's for sale...I'm proud of it, but I'm not gonna keep it!
