Knot Sew Crafty

Breakfast Pizza

Oh, Michael Ruhlman, what have you done to us?

Food writer extraordinaire Michael Ruhlman recently had a breakfast pizza on his blog.  We are highly suggestible, and happened to have fresh mozzarella on hand, so we made breakfast pizza this morning. It was good good good.  (The picture above does not do it justice--does anyone have food styling tips?) Pizza dough with egg, bacon and fresh mozzarella.  So simple.  So easy.  So tasty.  I would like to eat that specific pizza once a month for the rest of my life.  It's a little rich to eat more often than that, but the basic idea of breakfast pizza has many interesting possibilities--Roasted Fruit pizza?  Butter and Jam Pizza?  Cinnamon toast pizza?  

I might have found my new life's passion...

The Voca People

Beatrix introduced me to the Voca People today, and they made me happy, so I thought I'd share them. 

Happy Weekend everyone!

It's Just the Knit Stitch, Silly!

My Grandmother was always knitting or potting (pottery-ing?) or painting or sewing.  Mostly, though, she was knitting.

She made a special baby blanket for each of her many great-grandchildren.  They were made of same-sized knitted patches of all different colors.  They were usually colors that you would never think of together, but somehow Mutti made it work.  I loved the simplicity of the design and I assumed that she must have used a very complicated stitch--until I started knitting myself, and realized that it's just the simple knit stitch!  

No purling at all?  I'm in!  

I'm going to dig into my stash, make blocks of different colors, and sew them together.  I'm a little nervous about the sewing together bit, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

This is my first official knitting WIP--The Mutti Blanket.  

Woo-hoo!

She's a Cool Rider

Miss India Jane:  Three Wheels of Trouble...

Have you ever seen Grease 2?  Boy, did I love it when I was fourteen.  I doubt I would love it as much now, but I still have a special place in my heart for Stephanie Zinone, as portrayed a very young Michelle Pfeiffer, singing about what her dream man should be--you guessed it, a cool rider.  

C-o-o-l R-i-d-e-r

Martha Martha Martha!

Oh Martha!  Your new book just arrived, and I think you might be the one to cure my knot-sew-craftiness!  After reading the Encyclopedia of Crafts from cover to cover, I feel like I could do all of the crafts.  Not as well as Martha and her staff, naturally, but enough to have fun and end up with a presentable finished project.  I'm going to gold-leaf and stick shells on every inch of my house!

Do you watch Whatever, Martha?  It is like Mystery Science Theater 3000, except with old Martha shows.  It's incredibly funny, and proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Martha has a great sense of humor and doesn't take herself too seriously.  She's a mensch!  I also like it because Martha's daughter, who hosts with friend Jennifer Koppelman, is named Alexis. :)

**I am not going to show my granny square today because it looks almost eerily like yesterday's.  Tomorrow, I will try for some variety!

Granny A Day

I'm trying to keep up with Pip, in her quest to make a granny square a day until the end of May.  I think I should be able to do it, because, even though my grannies are still wonky, I'm able to make them much faster now.  Perhaps by the end of May, they'll be more even and won't look like they were made by a six-year-old.  Well, I can dream anyway!

Britain's Got Talent

If you need a bit of cheer, go watch this!

Life is sometimes magical, friends.

It's All About the Matzah

I am not really a religious person, but I do enjoy holidays, and I especially enjoy holiday foods. Passover starts tonight, and Beatrix has determined that we must be strict about not eating any form of grain.  That, in turn, means that we must have a hearty supply of matzah at the ready.  I quite like matzah, with butter or cream cheese, or even butter and cream cheese, but the best matzah that I have ever tasted is Toffee and Chocolate-Covered Matzah.  It is crazy good.  It is can't-stop-eating-until-the-last-tiny-crumb-is-gone good.  Try it, you'll like it.

Martha made some on her show recently, and I will be making some this afternoon.

Happy Passover!

Granny Granny

I've been making Grannies lately.  I hate sewing in the ends, thus I've only finished these two.  All the others have ends of yarn hanging all over the place and look rather unkempt, so I'll keep them out of sight until they are more presentable.

Some of you may remember that I started trying to make Granny Squares about a year ago.  I finally made a super-wonky one on my 40th birthday, last June.  I didn't make another one until about three weeks ago when something clicked in my brain and I suddenly understood how Granny squares work. I find that that happens to me a lot:  I don't get it, I don't get it, I give up, I try again, I give up, and then, after a while, everything becomes clear.  An inconvenient and exasperating way to learn, really.

I don't mean that I can do them perfectly all of a sudden--I know that those Grannies are still pretty wonky--but somehow they make sense to me now.  

And that is quite a relief to my knot-sew-crafty brain.

How to Avoid Spring Cleaning...

Learn how Peeps are made

Make sleepy food

Laugh at lousy real estate listing photos

Enjoy some coolness

Buy some pretty little things

Hang out with Hurley