VRWKNWC Chat Ping! Weekend and holiday discussion! Are we busy yet? Got any recipes to swap? Making anything fun? Interesting sights? (I saw a bunch of tundra swans last night at sunset...awesomely beautiful).
Two things: First, could you pretty please add me to this ping list?
Second: I'm on the South Beach Diet right now, plus we are going to my SIL's for Thanksgiving (where she will do most of the cooking) so I'm not really in recipe mode right now. But -- I did have a fun craft idea that I'll share, if anyone's interested. JoAnn Fabrics has some very cute fake fur on sale right now, and I've been trying for weeks to figure out an excuse to buy some. It is very soft, looks like poodle fur, lots of bright colors, handwashable polyester, and I could not figure out one thing to do with it! I finally decided it might make cute scarves, so I bought some in a beautiful periwinkle blue, cut it and made 60" long tubes out of it. I got those sewn up a couple of days ago, and I also bought some varicolored glass pony beads to make a fringe on the end, mixing them with some AB periwinkle blue pony beads I found. *I* think they will be very cute for a couple of inexpensive Christmas gifts ... hope my two SIL's like them too!
Thanks for the ping! I've been busy getting the food for Thanksgiving and an early Christmas party, as well as knitting scarves like a fiend, LOL!
Let me look for some interesting recipes to share and post later.
I finished that Fun Fur scarf in only two days! It's about 7 feet long and three inches thick...Very fashionable. I almost hate to wrap it up.
I started another shawl in a thick yarn called HomeSpun. I had to switch from circular needles to straight needles because the stitches would shrink, hanging from the cord. Is there a way to prevent this?