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cheryl knits skip to main skip to sidebar cheryl knits 01 october 2009 new blog hey everyone i ve moved over to a new blog that i m hoping to keep updated more regularly and start up my etsy again you can find me now here i hope you ll come over and join me posted by cheryl knits at 12 07 pm 3 comments 24 may 2009 joining the club it never fails that every time i sit down to update my blog miss runtlets has an unstoppable urge to sit on my lap she really is the sweetest little girl good thing too because it makes it impossible to toss her off so dear blog readers for this post and all future posts you can imagine a happy purring snuggly brown tabby kitten on my lap i on tne other hand am going to try to happily ignore her it s only sunday morning but this weekend has felt so long j had dental surgery on friday that s left him swollen and in a lot of pain i went to a total body conditioning class on saturday and got my ass handed to me a good friend of mine had in the words of her psychologist a mild manic break that s left me both worried and scared about her road to recovery and of course what s a summer weekend without a wedding another of our friends has joined the old married club we clean up nicely don t we it was a nice wedding an outside small ish garden wedding and there really is nothing more romantic than watching two people exchange vows i m a closeted wedding cryer but i managed to hold it together to take pictures thank goodness for busy hands today we re left cleaning and starting food prep for my parents to visit tomorrow posted by cheryl knits at 6 17 am 2 comments 17 may 2009 notes from the weekend kitchen i ve spent the majority of my weekend in the kitchen i love the sudden bursts of culinary productivity it started with picking up my csa box from the farmer s market inside were these amazing sugar snap peas they are the perfect raw snack crispy slightly sweet i stocked up on two extra quarts to last me through the week after picking up our box i decided to pick strawberries before the season ends we ve been getting steady supplies through our csa but i like to freeze them so we can have strawberries throughout the year the 40 lbs i picked last year lasted us until about a month ago and of course nothing beats homemade strawberry jam the nearly constant rain from this year has been really difficult on the strawberry crop there were a lot of strawberries with rain damage and it was sad to see so many otherwise ripe strawberries going to waste as i tend to clean them up as i prepare them for freezing i tried to pick some of the not so beautiful strawberries i didn t realize i had done that until i returned home and started cleaning them up i spent almost 4 hours in the kitchen with 20 lbs of strawberries while i was cutting chopping and washing the strawberries i got inspired to make some garlic herb bread for dinner last night as i was occupied with the strawberries i thought that finding a bread machine recipe was the way to go i found one that looked decent and i faithfully loaded it into my bread machine as i checked on its progress it seemed too soft so after an hour or two in the machine i took it out kneaded it by hand and added flour until it held together better was it a success i suppose so because as of this morning this was all that was left since i altered the recipe so much from its original form i feel pretty good about posting the recipe that i ended up with some of the measurements aren t exact i m sorry bakers but i am not a baker measuring ingredients precisely is one of the reasons why i don t bake more than i do garlic herb cheese bread in a bread machine add the following 1 1 4 c warm water 3 c unbleached flour 2 t sugar 2 t softened butter 3 t cheese est i used sharp cheddar 1 t yeast 5 t total your choice of seasonings i used two cloves garlic oregano salt i let my bread machine mix the mixture for about an hour and a half until i couldn t stand watching it any longer and thought i could do better if i kneaded it by hand when i pulled it out of the machine it was a very very soft and sticky dough i added 1 4 c flour and kneaded it until it was still soft but less sticky all together i m guessing i added a total of 3 4 c 1 c flour after i was happy with the dough consistency i folded in some extra cheese probably about half a cup i patted it into a medium bread loaf pan to rise for about 30 minutes in a preheated 350 degree oven i baked it for about 30 minutes and then checked it every 5 7 minutes it took about an hour to cook altogether but as your loaf pan may be a different size or material i d recommend keeping an eye on it the end result was delicious the bread has an amazingly soft light texture and as we will be fighting over the last piece i imagine i ll be making more soon if you try the recipe please let me know how it turns out posted by cheryl knits at 7 53 am no comments 03 may 2009 forgotten knitting my dog is trying to tell me something it s been one of those well what do you call it weeks from hell yes one of those not that anything has happened that s so terrible to me but it seems like everyone around me is grappling with some enormous personal struggle it feels like there s one giant inhale and no one wants to exhale me things are okay but life can just be exhausting sometimes i have piles of to do lists and less than 5 hours before my weekend ends my mother in law spent the better part of the weekend with us it was a nice visit punctuated with frequent thrifting a perfect trip to the farmer s market and delicious meals she left this morning and i ve spent the day doing laundry and trying to get the house ready for the week one of the things that concerns us most is always q s behavior i will admit to being a tad partial but he is much better than he used to be of course with company you always hope that your children are on good behavior and q started off the visit with a bang so to speak q frequently has joint problems so i try to give him happy hips that have glucosamine supplement to keep him nice and strong runt who is immensely curious about anything bigger than her that she can jump on likes to sometimes jump on the fridge and knocks down gifts to the grateful q below of course these things don t happen while we re at home oh no they wait to happen until we have guests and my mil at that and then they re not just tiny problems but larger longer lasting problems long story short it appears as if runt knocked down an entire read brand new bag of happy hips to which q ate all of every last one this not only led to swollen belly q but also farting q and the q that got to sleep alone downstairs which in turn led to difficulties with the outside life too because q is so hairy he ahem sometimes gets things stuck which leads him to an immediate bath i will spare you the details but i m thankful that i have an awesome husband and a pretty good dog and with some snipping and some other disgusting maneuvers we managed to get everything cleaned up everything good right so jump forward to today when i gave q a toy for being mostly good during the weekend a nice innocent toy i had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard when i turned the toy around to find this greeting me i think my dog is trying to tell me something posted by cheryl knits at 5 55 pm 1 comment 19 april 2009 adjustments well the thing in the wall i guess has found its way back outdoors it s been over a week and i don t smell anything unusual seeping from the walls of the den so we can put that saga behind us thankfully adjusting back into a 40 hr work week has been difficult i feel like i haven t seen j in about three weeks i haven t knit a stitch my energy and patience for almost everything have waned strangely in some odd ways i m feeling more productive but in others remarkably less so it s a strange middle ground and i know that things are not going to get better ever really so i need to prioritize find peace and strength in times where i m roaring on the inside and unstable on the outside i need to carve out little niches of time that are for me only but enough complaining as i actually have exciting news that i haven t shared with you yet my fiber from my sadly empty etsy store made it into the spring 2009 spin off magazine how cool is that anyway in one of my oddly productive ways i ve started making these tiny little batts they are usually a bit over half an ounce and i think they re fun and really really cute posted by cheryl knits at 10 13 am 2 comments 06 april 2009 there is something alive in my wall for the last three no four days the kittens have taken to staring at this particular wall at first of course we wrote it off to the kitten crazies i can t tell you how often i ve walked into the room and pig has been on his back feet catching nothing between his front paws runt is prone to being overly curious about everything so staring at the wall really just seemed the next in line of her unexplainable hobbies then we started tossing around the idea that perhaps it wasn t crazy but maybe they were having a religious experience do kittens have those last night as j napped on the couch and i instead of deciding what to knit poked around on ravelry i heard scratching i look over the the wall and runt has curiously twisted her head her eyes gazed upwards next we hear a thump a couple more minutes of listening and i know we ve got something alive in our walls seeing that it s been there now for four days i m pretty certain its end will follow the path of every other animal that s been caught in a wall look for path outside scratch at the wall look for food what no food death decomposition unusable room due to death stench for two months i sent j on a man mission today to find whatever animal has lodged itself within this wall i have three cats three i shouldn t have to deal with any animal problem three cats what am i feeding them for pig is staking out the wall now cutting in front of whomever happens to be closest runtlet is doing belly dances and flips around the ottoman pretending like she doesn t care though she s the watchman i have three cats and a husband i shouldn t have burrowing animals in my wall it s a bit disturbing i just hope it s big and fat and had some reserves before it kicks the bucket and because i don t just want to talk about death smells it seems that my carder and i are on speaking terms again ack the game has started i can already hear the helicopter outside posted by cheryl knits at 8 21 pm 1 comment 04 april 2009 spring fever see the thing about spring is that you can have a room full of options and still be indecisive should i work on the front panel of the fair isle yoke sweater or start a pair of socks 13 hours later and i still haven t made up my mind so i ve done nothing great isn t it i did sprain my ankle falling down the front stairs wednesday morning no q was not involved i just fell on my own graces this morning was the first day i ve walked without a limp but it my ankle is feeling better i m also on the hunt for the dress you know the dress my very amazing husband has even given the okay to spend an ungodly amount of money finding one we ll see i looked through a bunch of websites and haven t found it yet i d prefer something vintage knee length with a nice summery print either blue or green and it has to be spectacular i will know it when i see it but i haven t seen it yet i did find this beauty at nordstroms but i hate that it only comes in navy so i m still looking i m scoping out the vintage site where i found my wedding dress if it worked once it ll work again right posted by cheryl knits at 6 11 pm 2 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom 2009 knitting goals myrtle leaf shawl woven bands pullover kusha kusha scarf hemlock ring blanket ravelry followers my catching up list a crafty vegan all sorts co op america craft craftster dragonflyducky s blog dulcinea s windmill knitty one 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