Knitting, Sci-fi and other stuff...

We celebrated Thanksgiving as a family on Thursday.  I had the day off so I came home.  My parents and my brother came over to our house.  We had a very non-traditional meal.  I made Polish Wedding Soup and we had sandwiches, chips and my Mom brought a no bake cheese cake and an apple pie.  It was nice to not have the pressure of doing an entire turkey dinner.  If anyone wants the soup recipe I can do a separate recipe post.  Its a very simple potato, corn and kielbasa chowder essentially.  I spent the rest of Thanksgiving day reading The Ever King by L.J. Andrews.  I finished it the next day at work.  I dare say its the best book I've read this year.  There was a plot twist I didn't remotely see coming and it ended on a crazy cliffhanger.  The next book doesn't come out til January.  The Ever King takes place within another realm of the authors other series.  It's a stand alone series but they are connected.  I enjoyed this book so much I decided to start reading the o

I'm going to jump right in here with a quick update.  I finished the knitting on the White Whiskers Hat. I need to do the whiskers yet and it desperately needs to be blocked.  This pattern is tricky.  It has long color sections.  I caught my floats every 3 to 4 stitches but it still is a littly puckery in places.  Blocking will help, but if I do another one I'll probably try knitting inside out.  The extra yarn I ordered for the Sackets Harbor Mittens has arrived.  I just need to get that wound so I can finish the knitting.  Its gotten cold here.  Many evenings its been right around freezing when I get out of work. I did quite a bit of reading this last week instead of knitting and watching TV.  I've read three books in the last week and just started a fourth.  I read Wall St Jerk by Megan Wade.  It was a fun little romance novel that included an FMC who knits.  Thats what hooked me initially but it was witty and pleasent.  It got to the spice fairly quickly and

I haven't gotten very much done in the last two weeks.  I washed and blocked Drops of Spring Mitts. I worked on Sackets Harbor Mittens up until I ran out of the gray yarn.  In hindsight I should have inverted the colors.  But I prefer the color usage as is, so I ordered another skein of the gray.  I'm just waiting for it to arrive. I started a  White Whiskers Hat .  I'm not very far into it yet.  The memory of me getting the yarn for it, ehem 8 years ago, came up on my Facebook page so I thought it was high time to finally start it.  I'm makeing the cats gray and doing the background a lime green.   I made magic cookie bars last weekend for my husband's birthday.  I use  The Eagle Brand  recipe as a guide, but I usually add more coconut and more chocolate chips.   That's about it for crafting and cooking.  I got some news earlier this week about my current job and ultimately how it's going to impact my future.  I need to make some rea

Sorry its been a few weeks since I posted.  I got sucked into Outlander and its taken over, well, everything.  I watched the 5 seasons available on Netflix in two weeks, then went right back to the beginning and I'm watching it again.  I'm already into season 4 again.  Once I'm done this time I'm going to get Starz so I can watch season 6 and the half of 7 thats out.  Then I can experience Droughlander til March of 24 with everyone else. Onto the crafting I did get done in the last three weeks.  I finished everything and mailed out my swap package.  The recipient received it on Halloween so I can post what I made for her.  I made  Sackets Harbor Mittens  with Briggs and Little Heritage.  Sackets Harbor is a little town here in upstate NY, not too far from me actually, that was strategic in the war of 1812.  Two important battles were fought there, the battlefield is now a historic monument and the barracks are said to be haunted.  I found the pattern in my swapee's