Using the random number generator from the epicly awesome peeps at random.org, (wow that sentence sounded better in my head), I chose a winning comment:
*If I don't hear from the winner in 72 hours, an alternate winner will be chosen.
02 December 2012
Christmas Winner!
Hi everyone! We have some winners!
Using the random number generator from the epicly awesome peeps at random.org, (wow that sentence sounded better in my head), I chose a winning comment:
Which was:
Congrats rachelbpb! Please e-mail me within 72 hours* at natalie@nantucketknitter.com with your mailing address to claim your prizes! And enjoy them!
Using the random number generator from the epicly awesome peeps at random.org, (wow that sentence sounded better in my head), I chose a winning comment:
30 November 2012
Friday Finishes
Welcome to Friday Finished Linky party number four!
Link up on Fridays with any finish you wish to share: craft, homework, dinner, baking, getting the cranky child to bed - well you get the idea.
I finished up a hat this week to sell at next Saturday's Christmas market.
My kiddo was seriously unhappy during the photo-shoot, especially since the hat is for two to three years old, and she's a big four year old now. The hat is made out of some nice organic cotton yarn.
To top it all off, I made three Soap Holders for a special order. I don't have any pictures a of yet, as they ordered a total of ten and I'm too lazy to take pictures before something's completely finished, but they look smashing, if I do say so myself!
Friday Finishes - Join in the fun.
Link up on Fridays with any finish you wish to share: craft, homework, dinner, baking, getting the cranky child to bed - well you get the idea.
I'm pretty proud of myself this week. I finished up and released a new pattern, Simple Mitts, made out of some seriously cool yarn. I also made two pairs.
To top it all off, I made three Soap Holders for a special order. I don't have any pictures a of yet, as they ordered a total of ten and I'm too lazy to take pictures before something's completely finished, but they look smashing, if I do say so myself!
Come and join us for Friday Finishes! What did you finish this week? Please link up from your post with a text link or copy and paste the HTML below. :)
26 November 2012
Simple Mitts
Yarn: Kureyon by Noro in any color way, available at Flock, Nantucket. Shown in color 319.
Gauge: 5 sts and 7 rows = 1 inch
Needles: Us Size four, or size needed to obtain gauge. Set of DPNs or needles long enough for magic loop.
Notions: Stitch holder, needle to weave in ends, tape measure, stitch markers.
Cuff/wrist:
Co 32 sts, and join to begin working in the round being careful not to twist. Place marker (PM) to indicate beginning of round.
Work knit (K) two; purl (P) two ribbing for one inch.
K for one inch
K15, pm, make one (m1), k1, m1, pm, k to end of round
K two rounds
Next: k to marker (m) , slip marker (sm), m1, k to m, m1, sm, k to end of round.
Repeat last three rounds until there are a total of 15 sts between markers
K two rounds
K to m, remove marker (rm), put next 15 sts on holder or scrap yarn, rm, CO one stitch, k to end of round
Hand:
K all rounds for 1 ¼ inches
Work in garter one inch (p1 round k1 round) ending p round
Bo purlwise
Thumb:
Put sts from holder onto two needles. Pick up 1 stitch between needles, (side closest to hand) k to end of round. 16 sts
Next: k2tog, p to end of round. 15 sts.
Work garter for one inch ending p row. Bo purlwise
Finishing:
Weave in all ends, remembering to close any holes formed near thumb. Enjoy!
The fine print:
Pattern and images © Natalie Gonzalez & Nantucket Knitter, 2012. Please do no reproduce and redistribute pattern. Pattern for non-commercial, private use. (unless for a charity).
Any questions, comments, or concerns? Feel free to email me at natalie@nantucketknitter.com!
23 November 2012
Friday Finishes
Welcome to Friday Finished Linky party number four! Last week there were a couple of entries, let's hope for a few more this week!
Link up on Fridays with any finish you wish to share: craft, homework, dinner, baking, getting the cranky child to bed - well you get the idea.
This week I got a grand total of one project finished:
The Santa Reindeer! I really think he's super cute, and he was a pretty fast knit. I am planning on selling him at a Christmas market next month...I think he'll go pretty fast!
His coat was kind of fiddly, and didn't photograph too well. I am planning on getting another one done in darker colors.
Ravelled here: http://ravel.me/NataliesKnits/sr
And I need to bang out a few animal hats and some stuffed elephants...by the eight of next month. Wish me luck!
Plus a special order of ten soap caddies by December 24th!
Friday Finishes - Join in the fun.
Link up on Fridays with any finish you wish to share: craft, homework, dinner, baking, getting the cranky child to bed - well you get the idea.
This week I got a grand total of one project finished:
Ravelled here: http://ravel.me/NataliesKnits/sr
And I need to bang out a few animal hats and some stuffed elephants...by the eight of next month. Wish me luck!
Plus a special order of ten soap caddies by December 24th!
A quick update on No Spend November:
It's been going pretty well, but the more money I save, the more I want to spend it. I did slip up once and get a gourmet to-go coffee. But it was kind of a necessity on that particular day...plus I got a small, so that's ok, right? Haha, excuses, excuses.
I did suspend No Spend November very briefly to purchase a new phone. However, it was something I was planning on buying anyways, and the one I wanted went on sale by over half, so I kind of decided it may be a bit stupid not to get it right now.
Plus, with it, I can take credit cards at the artisan markets. So if I sell two things at each market that I otherwise wouldn't have sold, then the phone pays for itself.
I have been doing pretty well overall with it, and thus I have decided to expand No Spend November to Don't Buy December! It's a good thing I got the bulk of my Christmas shopping done last month, isn't it? And I have all the yarn to make anything else for Christmas presents.
Come and join us for Friday Finishes! What did you finish this week?
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18 November 2012
Pinterest Recipe Challenge: Soba Noodles with Ginger Sauce
Welcome to Pinterest Recipe Challenge: Week two!
Maybe it's cheating to go pin things specifically for this challenge (heck I know it definitely is cheating), but there are no rules so who cares, right?
On that note, last night we made Soba Noodles with Sweet Ginger Scallion Sauce, which, yes, I pinned specifically to make for this challenge.
Now, I love Soba Noodles and I love scallions. So it should be prefect, right?
And, it almost was. Honestly, the reason it wasn't was due to errors on my part. I added the noodles to the sauce without letting them cool down, because I was so hungry at the time and the sauce was so good. Seriously, like Heaven. But adding them hot gave them a little bit of a slimy texture. So if you make it, wait for the noodles to cool!
And, to save on money, we used leeks instead of scallions. And they were good, but after the flavors mixed for a while, the leeks started to overpower everything else. Plus, I love the texture scallions give to things. So next time, I will spend a little extra money and get the scallions.
Overall rating: 4.0 out of 5.0 stars. It should be 4.5 but I can't get past the texture. I know it's unfair to downgrade a recipe for something that's probably my fault, but I am not one hundred percent certain the texture wouldn't have been slimy if I'd added the noddles cold. So until I make it again, it shall remain at 4.0!
It's a must make if you like ginger, soba noodles, and scallion.
From the 30 Days of Thanks Facebook page:
"Thankfulness should extend beyond Thanksgiving. Even on our hardest days and in our worst moments, there is always something for which to be thankful. Practice daily gratitude during the month of November and share your thankfulness with others around the world.
"Please join this event and invite your friends to also participate in 30 Days of Thanks. Join and find something to be thankful for each day, whether you come back here each day and tell us all what you're thankful for (which would be fantastic!) or whether you acknowledge your gratitude in private."
On that note, last night we made Soba Noodles with Sweet Ginger Scallion Sauce, which, yes, I pinned specifically to make for this challenge.
Now, I love Soba Noodles and I love scallions. So it should be prefect, right?
And, it almost was. Honestly, the reason it wasn't was due to errors on my part. I added the noodles to the sauce without letting them cool down, because I was so hungry at the time and the sauce was so good. Seriously, like Heaven. But adding them hot gave them a little bit of a slimy texture. So if you make it, wait for the noodles to cool!
And, to save on money, we used leeks instead of scallions. And they were good, but after the flavors mixed for a while, the leeks started to overpower everything else. Plus, I love the texture scallions give to things. So next time, I will spend a little extra money and get the scallions.
Overall rating: 4.0 out of 5.0 stars. It should be 4.5 but I can't get past the texture. I know it's unfair to downgrade a recipe for something that's probably my fault, but I am not one hundred percent certain the texture wouldn't have been slimy if I'd added the noddles cold. So until I make it again, it shall remain at 4.0!
It's a must make if you like ginger, soba noodles, and scallion.
By the way, I am still doing 30 Days of Thanks! I have been posting about them in the Facebook event page, it got to be a little too much to write an entry for it every day!
Day 15: I am glad I have some talent I can make a little bit of money off of.
Day 16: I am thankful that I can worry about the small things I do. Because it means I'm not worrying about my next meal, a roof over my head, or clothing to wear.
Day 17: Thankful for homemade fresh OJ!
Day 18: Today I am thankful Magdalena has such an awesome Nana who is striving to create her own traditions with her granddaughter.
That's what I've been thankful for the past couple of days. What about you?
Check out 30 Days of Thanks on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/300340263404435/
"Thankfulness should extend beyond Thanksgiving. Even on our hardest days and in our worst moments, there is always something for which to be thankful. Practice daily gratitude during the month of November and share your thankfulness with others around the world.
"Please join this event and invite your friends to also participate in 30 Days of Thanks. Join and find something to be thankful for each day, whether you come back here each day and tell us all what you're thankful for (which would be fantastic!) or whether you acknowledge your gratitude in private."
16 November 2012
Friday Finishes
Welcome to Friday Finishes Linky Party number three! Link up on Fridays with any finish you wish to share: craft, homework, dinner, baking, getting the cranky child to bed - well you get the idea.
Last week a few people entered! Yay, hope some more enter this week! :)
It's funny, last week I talked about how it was a week in which I got a lot of things almost finished, but not quite. Well, those particular things are still almost finished. That mitten is still languishing on the DPNs, and I still haven't made a pompom for Magdalena's hat.
This week I got three Happy Accident hats done. One for M's friend's birthday, the other two to sell at a fair next month.
I also made some wonderful baked mozzarella sticks
And, I taught my first knitting class! I think it was a rousing success, she learned what I had intended in the time allotted, and because she's a friend, I was able to iron the kinks out!
Magdalena's teacher has a daughter who is in a knitting club at school. There are kids that want to join who don't know how to knit. She is going to print out a flyer with my knitting class details and bring it in, and hopefully I can have a class with her friends.
**Hoping it works out!**
The next few things I am going to mention, I am particularly proud of.
I have been keeping journals off and on my whole life. Many of them were half full of just angry words and drawings. I didn't want to get rid of them, but I didn't really want them around either. I never looked at them, they reminded me too much of a time I don't want to remember, but at the same time I'm scared to forget.
The other night, I decided I was going to get rid of them, come Hell or high water. I got tired of them taking up space! So yesterday morning, I ripped out the most emotional pages, and the drawings and words I really wanted to keep, and took my current journal, and did this:
I made a collage. It was a way for me to honor that time and how much I learned and how much I've changed.
I took some drawings and scattered them throughout the journal: (I have to be honest, it's not really a journal. It's more an art thing, it's a lot of found objects and drawings that Magdalena and I did together.)
It's now a 'journal' that anyone can look through and read, and contribute to if they feel the desire. Which I think is the best kind of journaling, those are where the real memories are going to come from.
Friday Finishes - Join in the fun.
Last week a few people entered! Yay, hope some more enter this week! :)
It's funny, last week I talked about how it was a week in which I got a lot of things almost finished, but not quite. Well, those particular things are still almost finished. That mitten is still languishing on the DPNs, and I still haven't made a pompom for Magdalena's hat.
This week I got three Happy Accident hats done. One for M's friend's birthday, the other two to sell at a fair next month.
And, I taught my first knitting class! I think it was a rousing success, she learned what I had intended in the time allotted, and because she's a friend, I was able to iron the kinks out!
Magdalena's teacher has a daughter who is in a knitting club at school. There are kids that want to join who don't know how to knit. She is going to print out a flyer with my knitting class details and bring it in, and hopefully I can have a class with her friends.
**Hoping it works out!**
The next few things I am going to mention, I am particularly proud of.
I have been keeping journals off and on my whole life. Many of them were half full of just angry words and drawings. I didn't want to get rid of them, but I didn't really want them around either. I never looked at them, they reminded me too much of a time I don't want to remember, but at the same time I'm scared to forget.
The other night, I decided I was going to get rid of them, come Hell or high water. I got tired of them taking up space! So yesterday morning, I ripped out the most emotional pages, and the drawings and words I really wanted to keep, and took my current journal, and did this:
I took some drawings and scattered them throughout the journal: (I have to be honest, it's not really a journal. It's more an art thing, it's a lot of found objects and drawings that Magdalena and I did together.)
AND BEST FINISH OF THE WEEK! (One I didn't even do...)
Someone wrote her nickname all by herself!
Come and join us! What did you finish this week?
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14 November 2012
Challenge Accepted: Pinterest Recipes
I was reading one of my favorite Blogs yesterday, Quilting in my Pyjamas (if you haven't read it you should, she's hilarious!). She posted about her addiction to Pinterest and how many recipes she's pinned without having actually made any of them. Afraid that her board would be a graveyard of things not cooked, she and her friend decided to combat their addictions by cooking one recipe a week from their pinterest boards.
My mom, Nana B, and I have decided it's a great idea, and to accept this challenge! And of course, we had to jump in straight away. We decided to start with Baked Mozzarella sticks. Sticks of string cheese wrapped in egg roll wrappers and baked!
This recipe is absolutely perfect for No Spend November because Mozzarella sticks are one of my favorite foods ever, and I can't justify spending $8.00 for six sticks. After all, they're not a necessity! But, spring roll wrappers and string cheese are groceries we buy every week, so they're justified.
I would tweak this recipe a bit. They were good, and will take getting used to as the sticks we normally eat are deep fried and breaded. But these were good, and if I could get the idea of what mozzarella sticks are 'supposed to be' out of my head, then they would be great.
I think I would try them with less baking time. Ten minutes, turn them after five. And regular blocks of cheese, versus string cheese. Like I said, they were good. But not ooey gooey.
Overall rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars. We would make them again. They're healthier, good and easy. And it's something the four year old can help with!
My mom, Nana B, and I have decided it's a great idea, and to accept this challenge! And of course, we had to jump in straight away. We decided to start with Baked Mozzarella sticks. Sticks of string cheese wrapped in egg roll wrappers and baked!
I would tweak this recipe a bit. They were good, and will take getting used to as the sticks we normally eat are deep fried and breaded. But these were good, and if I could get the idea of what mozzarella sticks are 'supposed to be' out of my head, then they would be great.
I think I would try them with less baking time. Ten minutes, turn them after five. And regular blocks of cheese, versus string cheese. Like I said, they were good. But not ooey gooey.
Overall rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars. We would make them again. They're healthier, good and easy. And it's something the four year old can help with!
Note: This post was written was written as much by Nana B as it was by myself!
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