A New Hampshire Knitter

I'm sure many of you have experienced the pinterest-fail- that diy project or idea that you find on pinterest that looks amazing, yet comes out so horribly wrong? Well, I heard about a microwaveable, single serve cake on pinterest, where all you do is mix angel food cake and another flavor cake, add some water, microwave, and voila! Single serve cake. Well, it seemed too good to be true. So I didn't try it. Until I heard about it at a Friday night knit night, I overheard some of the ladies talking about it. As I was deep in conversation with someone else, I didn't hear if it was a sucess, and I didn't think much of it again. Until today. I was grocery shopping and needed to get another bag of coffee. At the supermarket I shop at, the coffee aisle is shared with the baking aisle. I thought about it a moment, and decided to try it. Worst case senario, I was out the $3.60 for the cake mix. (Apparently, angel food cake is more expensive than regular cake. What's ...

It has been a LONG time since I last wrote here. A LONG long time. I've been busy, with school and work. I started a masters program, at Southern New Hampshire University, studying accounting. It's been mostly fun. However, life still goes on, despite all that. I'll be moving soon, so in order to clear some inventory (and, lets be honest, make a bit of money), I'm running a sale in my etsy shop , from now until March 1, 2014, everything is 15% off. Just use coupon code "moving." Happy knitting!

It's the middle of August. Most people think of the beach and vacations when they think of the dog days of summer, but like most crafters, I think of Christmas. I swore I wasn't going to knit any Christmas gifts this year. Working 50 hours a week and going to taking night classes at the local community college doesn't lend to many spare hours to spend crafting, never mind crafting for Christmas. But my knitting group decided to do a stocking stuffer exchange. Someone had floated doing a traditional Christmas swap, which was shot down pretty quickly. Then someone came up with the idea of a stocking stuffer exchange. Rather than a traditional swap, we each knit ourselves a stocking, and put a small stocking stuffer into each one. I'm not announcing what I'm making, but I'll fully admit that I'm probably going to go overboard. I usually do in swaps. But I'm not announcing it. I may be almost thirty, but I still believe in the magic of Christmas. ...

All the stitch markers in my etsy shop, EvidentlyMotley , have been price reduced for quick sale.

Today is Mother's Day in the United States, and as it was just me and my mother, I decided to cook her a nice dinner. I decided to make the Southwestern Stuffed Spaghetti Squash , a recipe I found on Pinterest. I spend far too much time on that website, trolling for food and quotes and crafty things. I was happy to see something I could actually, you know, make rather than just pin it. (It almost makes me feel like the time wasn't wasted, as if all that time was magically validated.) I had never cooked with Spaghetti Squash before, so I was a little uneasy but I decided to just take the ball and run with it. After baking the squash for a little less than an hour, the knife cut through it like it was melted butter. The "guts" of it (the seeds, and the goopy stuff) came out easily, as did the bit that looks like spaghetti! ( I didn't think to grab a picture, but to those of you that have never tried it, it really does look like spaghetti!) Once the squash was...

The title of this post may be a bit trite, I don't care. Although I live in New Hampshire, I am, like the rest of the country, reeling from the attacks at the Boston Marathon yesterday. I grew up in the city of Waltham, which is not far from Boston. I only moved to New Hampshire when I was 12, and one of my earliest memories of Boston is a field trip to visit the Museum of Science.  It's always been "the city, " that magical place where Life happened. Even though I'm from New Hampshire, I love Boston. I am completely comfortable on the T (the subway system). I'll walk around Chinatown, visiting my favorite bakeries (but not at night.) The Freedom Trail, the USS Constitution... It's Boston. It's my home. I found out about the bombings when I made my daily trip to the bank for work, the teller asked if I knew anything else about the "explosions." That's the key word there. Explosions. My first thought was "manhole cover? The Big D...

I should be knitting. I should. I'm going to school part time, and I had a project and a paper due last night. I could be knitting. I could. I have several projects on the needles... I even have multiple projects coming from the same skein. (It's a skein of Mushishi. 491 yards- very expected that I can get two projects out of one skein. I wanted a scarf and matching mitts, and I wasn't smart enough to start the mitts first, so I pulled out the center pull end of the cake to cast the mitts on.) (The mitts are Fetching , in case anyone was curious. The scarf is the Yarn Harlot's One Row Handspun Scarf .) I should knit, but I'm feeling too darn lethargic.