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January 26, 2008
makin' bacon
Hey, we're in a creative flurry here at the Berghof.
Here's the TOTALLY LOW-CAL breakfast we had on Monday. It's an open-faced sandwich from Nancy Silverton's wonderful Sandwich Book. It's toasted bread rubbed with garlic, festooned with broiled asparagus, a poached egg, fontina cheese and some prosciutto. This is, of course, the duck prosciutto that Nathan's been curing for a week. It's AMAZING. When the fat on the prosciutto got warm under the broiler, it got all soft and translucent and was like buttah.
Here's the start of my Central Park Hoodie. I'm using Knitpicks' Wool of the Andes. It's not exactly a sensory delight to work with, in fact, I'd have guessed it was Cascade 220 in a blind test, but it does what you ask of it and I chose a very nice color (not captured very well in this photo.) I started it yesterday and I'm three pattern repeats in.
And here's the start of Genevieve's wedding present. I can post this because I don't think she reads this, plus she knows exactly what I'm making because she picked it out. It's the Ombre Alpaca Blanket from Last Minute Knitted Gifts. I'm using Blue Sky Alpaca in the colors specified in the pattern. This yarn IS a sensory orgy to knit with. It makes the Baby Jeebus smile. The size 11 needles (remember how I said I was never knitting with anything larger than 8s?) are a pain in the booty (or fingers), but I don't care because the yarn is sooooo soft and buttery. I just want to roll around in it naked, but I won't, because it's for a present. Sigh.
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"I just want to roll around in it naked, but I won't, because it's for a present."
Who would know, really.
Posted by: Bob at January 27, 2008 12:13 PM