Q-snaps are actually my preferred way to embroider, but this little scrap of fabric I want to use is just barely too small for mine. I am actually working on it the regular way, but flipped so you can see my design since I hadn’t started the stitching yet. I could never get behind having the outline on the right side of the fabric, it just feels wrong to me!
These hearts just keep coming. I’m now at #6 and still have yarn left but i’m all hearted out so it’s moving into one of the apothecary jars i use for small remnant yarns.
I really want to try a double ended needle! If my q snap is propped up just the right way I actually prefer to stitch with both hands!
Well, I wanted to get this yarn and scarf out of the way. I have this yarn and a combination of sc, dc, and hdc to make this scarf. I have a very small amount of a more red maroon that may sneak in towards the middle or as fringe, but may not be part at all, either.
This made me think of a swap I took part in years ago, called Jar of Hearts. You could have up to 6 partners and could choose to swap one or two small hearts, with the end goal of filling a jar with crafted hearts
10th Feb
Not a particularly crafty day, did a bit more on my cross stitch and made a chicken, mushroom and garlic pasta sauce from scratch, so counting that as a win
I was in that one too! Or one of them if there were multiples? So man years ago but I still have my hearts
I am thinking of crocheting hearts with some red yarn I have, but I’m not there yet.
Chocolate banana bread today:
Followed this recipe.
@seeuudee: I made a mushroom chicken garlic dinner too! I used this recipe that my mom recommended. I just took it out of the oven and it smells so good!
The girl wanted chocolate cake but she didn’t want to bake it with me when I offered. Silly girl!
We were already in the kitchen making onigiri rice balls for dinner. No photos, they were gobbled up! We did 3 fillings, diced BBQ pork (from left over take out), ground beef with Worcester sauce & gr onion, minced sesame ginger tofu. We make our own furikaki from toasted whole & ground sesame seeds & coarse sea salt to sprinkle on them.
Oohh I would like to see a recipe for those, they sound yum
We did read a couple but then ended up making our own. It’s basically salted sticky rice squished around filling. Easy & messy good fun, lol. You should have seen one kid’s face though, omg, like we were torturing him with dinner.
Wow! Sounds amazing!
You can do little rice balls, work with cooled sticky rice, squish a bit in your hand & make a divot with thumb, fill with tasty stuff, squish closed, roll a little to pack & smooth out circle shape. If too sticky, wet your hands but only a little or the rice falls apart! Roll in sesame seeds or crushed whatever, it helps reduce stickiness & keep shape. You could fill with pb&j if you mixed them together & added something like crushed peanuts or pretzels, coconut, chopped dried fruit to firm it up a bit. Bet your kids would love eating those!
I have had cold fingers all week from the cold. So I decided to make some mittens since I am terrible about having proper winter gear. These are pretty thin. But I really just wanted something between my hands and my steering wheel. They are very soft. It’s part of a blanket panel I got in a mystery pack from (I think) Moon Bean Textiles. It wasn’t a panel I would ever use as a blanket so I decided to use some for the mittens.
Day 10: Made brownies that I’m too lazy to photograph.
I admit that I snagged the mushroom garlic chicken recipe…and then got lost in the internet and found a bread recipe that looks pretty simple…is it too late to bake bread at night? Yeah, I will wait until morning since you have to let it rise and sit and such…“now” does not happen with bread…oh well
Oooh, that looks good, will pin that for another day