Their uni and mine are arch-rivals. hmm A little veggie happiness in a bowl 8). Rain is for children with new umbrellas and rubbers. Oh my goodness! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I live in CA and when the rain hits like that it is horrible. I have two hats to finish. Last year I made 24, every year my personal quota gets a little larger. Soup looks good. But that’s just me. I want to know if this is still your status when someone a few weeks later asks you to knit them a hat. I totally understand tiring of making the same thing multiple times, but I imagine you’ll knit another hat or two as time goes on. It is WAY early for any snow here in N. AL. I spent it subbing for whiny kindergarten children who were cooped up in their classrooms all day because of the pouring rain. I don't know who the poor, pitiable soul who felt compelled to spew such drivel about Stephanie and what she writes, is, nor do I care. Are you at least wearing Gwendolyn to ward off the damp and cold? I love soup and chickpeas and this one looks delicious. $ 52.00. Thank you. And I’m making that soup, like, tomorrow. So I’m clicking over here, as I do, and I thought, gee! Thanks for posting the recipe. Then back to hats, because they travel well on public transportation. I so love this! When I was feeling bereft in Nov and Dec, I went back and reread your Christmas posts, starting w the Spreadsheet of Joy. Otherwise, the rewards are lovely. I’ve been doing this for over ten years now! Cold rain is my very least favorite weather, too. That looks fantastic. My grocery store only had a 19 oz. That soup looks delicious! It doesn’t look nearly so bad out in Boston, but it is still calling me to hide in a big cushy chair with a book, knitting and old fashioned hot chocolate (made on the stove, not the instant from a can). It sure beats pouring into a blender or food processor to blend. Gauge. After six years of knitting, at least the words knit blogger don’t elicit such a confused reaction anymore . I subbed shallots for the leeks (since I didn’t have any), and added one stalk of celery minced, about a cup of cream, sea salt, freshly ground pepper, and a dash of cinnamon. Unfortunately, I am currently living in Norway, in a particular very, very rainy coastal city. It seems like the perfect soup for a cold wet day. I only need to knit two points a day to make it! I started both of them, and I love them – Wild Wolves – I had a kit that I bought at Knit East. Loving the soup recipe. I’m sorry you’re having one of those days. And, you’ll get them finished before Elliot needs new sweaters (or hats)! You may have snow in the near future. News flash! Posts about Yarn Harlot written by knitpurlpdx. Bliss. I think I’ll make this soup for dinner. It sounds like what my mom would call a “rib-sticker”. I always console myself with this: at least it’s not snow. Thanks! Perfect for a rather brisk chill-to-the-bone evening that’s in store. For the inspirational photos. During the last of the hats, I comforted myself by lining up two projects I was going to start the minute it was all over, and when I say that I lined them up, I don’t mean that I sort of thought about what it was going to be and kept them in my mind. I love the Wolves. I went to look at her other patterns as well. No Green Beer For Me; How I Spent My St. Patrick’s Day; Happy Dance! But true! And for the generosity and kindness and sharing that makes your writing such a treat. Am presently hooking a shawl from handspun silk I finished a little while ago. I have the perfect white alpaca waiting. 5 more to go, then I flat-out refuse to knit another one. I’m bookmarking this recipe! I wasn’t. I love the #$%@ing hats comment! In January, i start knitting for myself: right now, its all about me. The winter monsoons. (Perhaps in more temperate climes, november rain is a gentle mist and cooling relief from the heat of the sun…sigh). I was getting pretty tired of all the folks “driving like a Nashvillian” around me, in the rainy dark! They look dorky. I’m trying not to act like the stapler guy in the movie Office Space but I’m a little grumpy myself. I hope the rain stops soon. I am having one of those weeks. http://creativewhimsy.wordpress.com/patterns/newfoundland-mitts/ They are really warm and open to many different possibilities for colours/yarn. This is great soup, and I am feeding it to the folks tonight. http://www.creatingafamilyhome.com/2011/11/yarn-along-pottery-update.html, I used to live in Seattle. Great scarf! Previously we lived in the Seattle area and it was the same way. Oct 10, 2012 - Explore Craftown.com's board "Yarn Love", followed by 10526 people on Pinterest. Thank you for the soup recipe! You mention yourself as a cat in a previous life, and I got the image of a knitting cat with frizzy curly hair and glasses. I think a bowl of soup made with good veggies would be very warming in damp cold weather and thanks for the recipe. I learned color stranding this hear and have made at least a dozen hats. and kale, I meant to say I threw in kale too. Stay Dry . This soup, and a litle sleep will change the way I see the world. Purchase 15 yarn items (balls, skeins, or cones) and receive 10% off each. Yarn Harlot: October 2004 74 426 1 2 of 2. I was so desperate to knit less of them I taught my husband (a fledgling knitter) my pattern so he could help. That soup looked so good I thought I’d try it. . My body hurts. Just looked at the Bonfire pattern on Ravelry, it’s beautiful. I hope this helps cheer you up! It looks delicious & I’m already formulating dinner plans around it. When it rained it poured. The Fernfrost is beautiful. Over 50 million people in America knit. The immersion blender changed my life. perfect day at home. Steph, should we start an UMBRELLA FUND for you??? Not even cold enough for a nice wool sweater. And the car project, a scrap afghan. I hate to admit it, but I’m one, too. and while I am not trudging around in it; I hate the cold greyness that is today and November.I am also not knitting or eating hearty soup or drinking tea because I am at work. The book that Bonfire is in, and the appropriate yarn, was purchased. There was an explanation in the comments of the previous post, if you’d like to know more. Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter moves beyond instructions and patterns into the purest elements of knitting: obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun. I have made the wolves, foxes, bears and rabbits by Fiona Alice. Craft. The soup’s making me hungry for supper and the Fernfrost is making me wish that I was working on a pretty lace project right now. I am done with navy sweaters for a while. Published. Your soup was the perfect thing for a sick friend staying over tonight. This post reminds me of too many mornings on bus duty, and then doing recess duty later in the morning. I just finished a shawlette with Freia shawl ball Flare and it is gorgeous. Hate this kind of weather with a passion. One that covers the bum and keeps us warm and dry and not overheated. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/snowfall-hat-2 ). so I feel your pain as it is a cold rain and I do have to go out in it. Best wishes. Stir the leeks after 5 minutes. And here I sit in Cameroon (Central Africa), wishing that it would rain and cool things off. I just love that cozy kind of day, and I get quite a bit of my Christmas knitting done that way too. She meows to, but when I open the door for her she looks outside and looks at me and goes back to the sofa to curl up for yet another nap. I hope you are warm and cozy now. I’m going to email this recipe to my two vegetarian cousins and some non-vegetarian people too. Nothing beats that immersion blender. Rain and cold and dark belong outside, banished. ), sorry your day was cold and rainy! i wish there were soup. Other than that, no one else gets a hat: I will gladly knitt scarves, cowls, socks (well actually I kind of burned out on socks too) mittens, baby sweaters, blankets…but the hat quota must be served. Yarn Harlot tells all those stories with humor, insight, and sympathy for the obsessed. 1 Tablespoon butter1 Tablespoon olive oil2-3 leeks (the white parts only, sliced very thin) 2-3 potatoes, scrubbed, quartered and sliced thin. So with all that going on, I do hate the cold, perhaps mostly for the knitting part. Oh thank you for the soup recipe! And bonus, we’re expecting snow later today. I’m planning on some for tomorrow. ... About this yarn Nordique. I decided this on Christmas Eve, while I was busting butt to finish an Arne and Carlos Christmas Ball by Christmas day. I would so love to have a bowl of that soup appear in front of me right now! Now I want to knit her hat. This month puts us one third of the way through our 40th Anniversary year, it is flying past! Maybe I’ll throw in some turkey too. Never been good at making soup but I’ll give it a go. Books › Crafts, Hobbies & Home › Crafts & Hobbies Share