My first ever home made sufganiyot = the donuts we eat in Chanukah:
I hope all of you have a warm happy day tomorrow whatever you celebrate, even if it is just being alive.
Monthly Archives: December 2008
December in Arizona
When I walked into our bedroom yesterday afternoon I gasped and summoned the cameraman:
After awhile, I went into the bedroom again and the same thing happened, only louder this time:
And we had another visitor:
Did Saki bring him or did he come by himself, that was the big question!
And I thought he was cute only after he was inside the brown bag or actually only when I opened this photo!
I need to go sew the vest that needs to get to Toronto before the holidays. Did I ever admitted that I hate sewing, anything and everything? I guess this is why it was so important to blog all of a sudden,,,,
My issues with sewing all stem from an old mean teacher, Mrs. Kaplan, she used to yell at me that my stitches are crooked and made me rip them off and sew again and again and again,,,,
Oy Oy Oy,,,
In the past I used to bribe my sister, I would knit her a sweater or whatever she wants if she will sew mine and hers too,,, it worked quite well, most of the time but now she is in Israel and I am here and Sam is in college (as if the wicked one would have agreed to sew it for me, but a woman can dream, right?)
Poor poor me,,,
OK, OK,,, I am going,,,,,
The Temptations of Noro
To break the monotony of my cowl addiction I succumbed to Noro colors again:
While knitting the scarf I worried a lot. I thought it will turn out weird or dull, I kept rewinding the skeins to check the colors combinations I can get.
But at the end of it all, I am really pleased with the result:
Noro is an old love of mine. I first met this corruption in a lovely boutique yarn in Tel Aviv in 1986 (oooppps, now you know how old I am,,,), I immediately fell in love with the color combinations and the softness of this yarn. Yes, the first yarn of Noro that I ever used was extremely soft, I don’t remember the name of it but it had a high content of angora and it was outrageously expensive. I still have the sweater I knitted from it:
although it doesn’t fit me anymore. It looks quite new as I didn’t wear it much, angora was never very suitable to the weather I live in – my kind of luck!
So when I saw Noro again in my LYS a few years ago when I returned to knitting, I couldn’t resist it and made my feather and fan shawl from it – to tell you the truth, I was quite disappointed when I knitted the shawl, the yarn had many knots in it and I remembered a much softer yarn but the shawl itself is beautiful so I was happy. This time when I knitted the scarf, again it was not the most pleasant yarn to knit with but I love the result so I guess I will keep going for more Noro.
