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!
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I understand being not in recipe mode.
I'm on a South-Beach style eating plan myself, and I am going to do the cooking, so I have warned everybody don't expect any junk around here! But I am trying to figure out how to modify recipes to fit my new food sensibilities - little or no fat (I have a health problem needing very low fat, so the fats I get are quality, like the oils in salmon, avocado, nuts), restricted amounts of carb. It's interesting.
Scarves are cool! I knitted one last week, but now I seem to be in afghan mode.
Sounds gorgeous, Hetty. :-)
We're on a low carb eating regimen, too many pre-diabetics in the house. We're having a big turkey with lots of leftovers, squash custard (not pumpkin pie), lots of green veggies and apple brown betty with berries and cream for dessert.
I'm being lobbied hard for mashed potatoes. I always used to leave the skins on. I'm think of getting up early, throwing out half of the insides and making mashed potato skins with cream cheese, maybe some grated swiss cheese. Think they'll notice?
My fiber project right now is finishing a card woven sash for a friend of mine. It's green wool, about 4" wide. I'm hoping I can get it off the loom this weekend so I can start on several baby blankets next week. Everyone I know is having babies this year, it seems.
A couple of my favorites (shhhh!) are getting handspun merino wool, otherwise, wool yarn from my too-big stash.
For Christmas, my daughter is getting several blankets from an acrylic stash my mother passed on to me this summer. Lots of play and experimentation with patterns for no $$. And they're all machine washable. ;-)
My girls are planning to make scarves for one another for Christmas, as a surprise. lol And so the skills go on to another generation.
Great fun last night, I wove over 18" watching the Dems go down in flames. :-) Prayers for our troops and their Commander In Chief...
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