Why oh why do I sit and knit while watching Food TV? WHY? I want to eat everything I see on television! It all looks delicious! Particularly Paula Dean's recipes. I'm not from The South, but I think I must have been a southerner in a previous life. I love the cooking, I like the family traditions, I like the weather (mostly...sort of....minus twisters and huricanes). She has this recipe for caramel corn......sigh. I really want to make it, but the recipe makes a LOT of caramel corn. More than I need to be eating all by myself. So I think if I make it I'll be forced to send some of to a few knittyheads. ;-)
As for knitting related content? Oh. Um. Well, the Noro mitered square bag is still blocking. I don't love the handles on it. They are too long and too narrow. I'm seriously debating cutting them off and buying some chunky black nylon webbing (think: car seatbelts) and sewing it directly into a heavy cotton twill bag lining. Alternatively, I could cut the handles shorter and sew them together (and then line them with canvas webbing) or leave them the way they are and line them with the canvas webbing. If you've noticed a trend, you are correct. Regardless of what I do with the felted handles, I'll be lining/reinforcing/replacing them with nylon or canvas webbing. Why? Because I hate the way felted bags stretch and get all out of shape. It ruins all your hardwork on knitting and blocking! And the handles are the worst for the stretching. So.
The dropped stitch scarf with beads in Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Merino is coming along quite nicely. Some might say that I'm nuts to knit and entire scarf that is only slightly lacey out of sport weight yarn, but I assure you that I'm crazy for far more valid (and interesting!) reasons. I've reduced a canteloupe-sized hand-rolled ball of Supersock to something the size of a kiwi. I think I'll end up using part of the second skein I have stashed away, just because I don't want to break the working strand to add beads for the second edging and then reattach. My other option is to unwind the remainder of my kiwi-sized ball and thread the beads on that end of the yarn and then reroll it, but........nah......too much work. So, the scarf will be a bit longer and I'll be less hassled. Yeah. Me less hassled. Ha!
