Manos del Uruguay Silk Blend

If I could only knit with one yarn for the rest of my life, this Silk Blend from Manos del Uruguay would be it. It’s wonderful. It feels great, it knits up with great good humour, and the colours are to die for. They just glow. What is more, knitting with the one yarn for …

It’s all gone horribly wrong

Just about everything that could go wrong today did so, and now I feel completely frazzled. The gingerbread was good. The coconut macaroons were quite nice. The èclairs were an unmitigated disaster from start to finish. The bread was terrible too. Nell ran off and was found chasing a car down the road. Thankfully the …

One of those days

Up and at ’em this morning and I had the bread rising by 7:30am. I am now showered and ready to begin my other baking. I have discovered that I have no milk for the spinning ladies’ tea/coffee and no time to go seek some. *sigh* I got up to find that the cats had …