{"id":283,"date":"2009-01-21T06:52:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T11:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2009-01-21T06:54:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T11:54:51","slug":"mitts-and-artichokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Mitts and artichokes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The extreme cold snap has inspired me to spend a lot of time checking the pipes to make sure they aren’t frozen. Only one tiny problem with the pipes – the not-so-brilliant renovators ran the cold water line to the kitchen right next to the dryer vent outlet. If it gets too cold I need to pull the dryer out from the wall and put a heater in the laundry room. I insulated heavily, but -15F is a bit much.<\/p>\n

The frigid temperatures also inspired me to want to make warm cozy things from wool. One finished<\/i> knitting project resulted: a pair of Fetching<\/a> mitts from Knitty. I had a single skein of Katia Irish Tweed<\/a>, a door prize from last summer’s Worldwide Knit in Public Day. I’d been looking for a project to do with this heavy wool-silk-nylon yarn. I didn’t have quite enough, so the tops were done with a unlabeled wool (blend?) that I’d acquired somewhere.<\/p>\n

\"Fetching<\/p>\n

These were a very quick knit. I started Thursday after work, and finished midday Saturday. For me, that’s phenomenal. Cold is apparently very motivating.<\/p>\n

\"Fetching<\/p>\n

The picot bindoff in the pattern curled out, so I did the second mitt (in the photos) with a regular bindoff.<\/p>\n

\"half <\/p>\n

Giant thistles are lovely in cross-section, and they are rather tasty when baked too. I’d never baked artichokes before, always steaming them instead. I wwashed them and cut them in half, put them in a baking pan with a couple of chopped up cloves of garlic and a drizzle of olive oil. I covered the pan with foil and baked at 350F for 35-40 minutes, until the artichokes were soft. Oh, yum! I will definitely be doing that again.<\/p>\n

I spend the day Monday dyeing test skeins of silk.<\/p>\n

\"Silk\"<\/p>\n

Doesn’t look like a full day’s work, does it? But somehow I didn’t manage to get anything else done, so it must have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The extreme cold snap has inspired me to spend a lot of time checking the pipes to make sure they aren’t frozen. Only one tiny problem with the pipes – the not-so-brilliant renovators ran the cold water line to the kitchen right next to the dryer vent outlet. If it gets too cold I need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color","category-knitting","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}