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A New Hampshire Knitter

Join me as I make my way knitting, quilting, reading, and yes, occasionally enjoying a good bottle of wine.

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- January 22, 2016

My kitty, Molly. Who is an absolute sweetheart.

Don't you want to just rub that belly?

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Turkey Day Preparation

- October 14, 2018

About two weeks ago, a turkey breast jumped into my cart while at BJs. I'm not sure why I thought it would be a good idea; I've never made a turkey before. I don't even own a roasting pan. But I had this six pound turkey breast, and decided to make something of it, and cooked it in the Instant Pot. (Seriously. I love that thing so much.) I decided to coat the bird using poultry seasoning, no real measurements were taken, just sprinkled the spices on and rubbed it in. I put it on high pressure for 35 minutes (using the rule of thumb of 5 minutes per pound plus 5 minutes. It took 15 minutes to come to pressure, then the 35 minutes at pressure. and then between 12 and 17 minutes at NPR. I believe it was closer to the 17 minute mark. But, all in all. 70 minutes to cook a bird, and I didn't have to watch it every five minutes.* (For those of you without an Instant Pot, a Natural Pressure Release is when you let the device come down from it's high pre...

Feeling Weird

- March 23, 2019

In just over two weeks, I'll be vending at the Fiber Marketplace hosted by The Yarn Sellar in York, Maine. This is the... fourth year? that I'll be working this one, and for some reason, I'm really quite nervous about it. I have a large percentage of inventory that just will not sell, and I want to mark them down, but then I feel weird about charging full price on the new inventory. And then I though, well, I can always just sell as sets and mark the clearance ones lower than the new sets, right? But "allowing" my customers to break sets has always been a practice of mine, and accounts for a decent percentage of sales- would that change for the better if I stopped allowing that?

Indecision

- June 28, 2014

I have a slight problem. I want to KNIT ALL THE SHAWLS, which isn't a problem, as I have a lot of yarn designated toward shawls. However, what makes it a problem is I also want to KNIT ALL THE SOCKS. (And yes, I have a lot of yarn designated for socks.) As it is, I've got a couple shawls on the needles. The Eden Shawl , which I wrote about earlier this week. That's officially on hold- I've only got a few inches left, I did, however, cave and buy a couple skeins from a Raveller in Canada. So, I'm waiting on that delivery. On pins and needles, of course. I really want to finish that one, and block it. I chose a very lovely color for that. Knitpicks Stroll Sport, in Baltic Heather. I also haven't touched my Follow Your Arrow, which was a Ysolda Teague mystery knit a long, since clue 4 came out. It's just sitting there, in a huddled, lonely mess. Same with Esjan , which my knitting group did as a knit a long... I did rece...