tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186034802024-03-13T00:55:54.958-04:00zinlizzieA meandering path through the crafts I follow, undoubtedly touching on other parts of life as well. My name's Elizabeth; I've a husband, two kids, a cat, and an abiding interest in fiber. Mostly this will be about fiber. And gardening, just because.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.comBlogger741125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-14964301311652096402021-12-19T12:34:00.004-05:002021-12-19T12:34:59.813-05:00Stuffed Cabbage Rolls <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-36480203870584139692021-04-10T19:45:00.001-04:002021-04-10T19:45:20.219-04:0010 April 21 Going old school for a while So. Ravelry is useless to me now. I'm not going to go into it just now. The stress of this past year was not eased in any way by their nonsense.At least for a while I'm going to old school blogging, as are some of my acquaintances. Blogroll anybody or blogrings? 😆---------------------J and I got jigsaw puzzles for Christmas this year. We started them the week between Xmas and New Year's. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-68684760517563148842020-07-11T12:39:00.003-04:002020-07-11T12:39:34.906-04:0011 July 2020 Cinnamon Shortbread1 c butter
3/4 c brown sugar
3 tsp cinnamon (I like using the Ceylon cinnamon for this if you can get it)
1/2 tsp vanilla powder (or 1 tsp vanilla extract)
sprinkling of nutmeg
2 c flour
Cream the butter. Add the sugar and blend well. Sift dry ingredients together. Mix into butter/sugar, at low speed. The result will tend to be crumbly. Press evenly into a lightly greased 9x13 pan.
Bake at 350 Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-84298796187674875482020-05-09T17:59:00.000-04:002020-05-10T17:44:03.992-04:008 May 2020 Chili con carne and Cornbread
1 pound ground beef and
1 pound ground lamb or 1 pound pork or 1 pound veal (each will give a different flavor, obviously 😀)
1 can fire-roasted tomatoes whirred up in the blender with 1 can (8oz )tomato sauce
2 or 3 T ancho chili powder
1/2 tsp cumin
1/4-1/2 tsp chipotle chili powder
Add beef broth
1 can pinto beans or black beans
Brown meats, drain grease, add tomatoes and spices&Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-33937467619545481922020-05-06T17:58:00.003-04:002020-05-07T09:36:59.816-04:006 May 2020 Banana FrittersThere are recipes you try, and you go... ok. that was a thing. and you never try them again. Then there's the other kind.
This one is the other kind.
This recipe originally came from the Pearl S. Buck Oriental Cookbook, but it's been adjusted over time. I use a minimum of 1/2 banana for each person and 1/2 banana more, rounded up to make even numbers of bananas. Unless of course theElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-88092474569617193712020-05-05T12:48:00.003-04:002020-05-09T12:54:18.954-04:005 May 2020 Sourdough waffles
If you want waffles for breakfast, start the night before with
STEP 1:
1 cup sourdough starter
1-1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup warm water
Measure out 1 cup sourdough starter from your supply. Stir together (4-5 minutes) with flour and water. Cover bowl and let proof for 8-12 hours. It will be ready when it is foamy and full of large bubbles. It can be used any Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-61344334257867449522018-02-04T09:31:00.002-05:002018-02-04T09:32:38.463-05:004 Feb 2018 Oatmeal banana waffles - gluten free.I've been making waffles for 20 years and have given up following a recipe. This one turned out well.
1 cup oat flour
1 cup rolled oats, run through the blender until they're textured oat flour
1/2 cup almond flour
1 T brown sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup sour cream or yogurt
1 cup milk
3 eggs, separated
1 large or 2 small mashed bananas
Stir the dry ingredients togetherElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-26177930197185670962015-08-26T07:27:00.004-04:002015-08-26T07:28:31.803-04:008.26.2015 Kale Quinoa CakesThese little cakes aren't hard to make, although I like it best when K and I work together. We've tried a couple of different recipes and this is what we've settled on for our version:
4 eggs
2-1/2 c cooked quinoa
1/2 c grated Romano cheese
1 c (gluten free) bread crumbs
1 c cooked kale
(we minced the leaves, then wilted in a hot Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-45235471741095136692015-06-14T10:15:00.001-04:002015-06-14T10:16:08.593-04:006.14.2015 This time I won...
One of the nice things about belonging to a small-ish group on Ravelry is the offering of monthly random prizes. Most everyone offers a prize sooner or later; most everyone wins a prize sooner or later. This time I won and a marvelous bag maker offered me my pick of a bunch. I narrowed it down to about four and asked her to surprise me. Tah dah! Just the right Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-81463122431550098302015-05-17T11:26:00.000-04:002015-05-17T11:26:10.788-04:005.16.2015 A very nice day at Oswego.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-58628100713615256892015-05-02T19:17:00.004-04:002015-05-02T19:18:29.044-04:005.2.2015 Snoozy kitty, awkward pillow.
Three nights running she's cuddled up to the lazy kate to use it as a pillow.
Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-56320658649943459492014-10-12T21:09:00.002-04:002014-10-12T21:09:28.990-04:0010.12.2014 Dyeing workshop
I took a fun workshop at Fingerlakes Fiber Fest, playing with dyes with Sara Lamb. I took along some Zephyr and some bombyx silk top and finally got decent pics of the silk which did not want to be in focus.
Zephyr:
and Silk top:
Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-79451786790558033382014-09-24T19:25:00.000-04:002014-09-24T19:25:06.944-04:009.24.2014 Little Lime Hydrangea, fall editionElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-31728802357169700392014-08-02T19:27:00.001-04:002014-08-02T19:27:06.053-04:008.2.2014 And when you finish plying...
You get to take it off the spindle and onto the niddynoddy for skeining. And then you get to take it off the niddynoddy and dunk it in water for magic!
The tied are #10 crochet cotton. You know, for scale.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-5104002777824338102014-07-31T21:41:00.003-04:002014-07-31T21:43:43.853-04:007.31.2014 New Toys are always fun.
I won an Etsy gift card in a drawing; Etsy has Andean plying tools available. Thanks to the wonders of the modern Internet and 2 day USPS shipping, I now have an Andean plying tool draped about with the last bit of the Murex ultrafine merino from Freyalyn. I should have taken a picture with the neatly wound fiber but I couldn't wait to start actually plying it so I didn't get the Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-67612236775533323052014-07-25T09:06:00.004-04:002014-07-25T09:06:50.502-04:007.25.2014 And summer daylilies, part the firstElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-2138563240199423682014-07-18T20:40:00.001-04:002014-07-18T20:41:34.151-04:007.18.2014 Summer echinaceaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-88226747768589487502014-06-02T21:22:00.003-04:002014-06-02T21:22:35.948-04:006.2.2014 Recording the stash
I spent this weekend recording the handspun stash. I'm not done by a long shot, but my arm said it was tired of running the ball winder so I quit and went back to spinning again.
Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-12025306217818604612014-05-07T19:43:00.004-04:002014-05-07T19:43:55.229-04:005.7.2014 Muting down the garish
Some years ago, I bought some tussah silk for the red bump it appeared to be and was mildly appalled to find bright turquoise bits inside. (There were also bright pink bits inside that I didn't expect but that will be another day's story.) Ordinarily I don't mind turquoise; in fact, I quite like it, but not when I think I'm buying a deep red shading to browns.
I spun some of the Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-55300931035625139292014-05-01T21:04:00.002-04:002014-05-01T21:05:50.094-04:005.1.2014 Bosworths and silk
I got to thinking about my Bosworth spindles which haven't all been in one place in quite a while. I hadn't noticed that they had all acquired silk. Birdseye maple midi with natural tussah silk dyed by me in a bound resist on the left. On the right we have a moosie with natural bombyx silk, a tulipwood mini with natural bombyx hankies and a walnut featherweight with Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-70715260651475900382014-04-11T13:29:00.003-04:002014-04-11T13:29:18.741-04:004.11.2014 More pink silk, but slowly
The best thing about having two wheels is the ability to easily switch between two different projects. I like spinning silk, but it has gotten harder on my hands. I've noticed that when I have a silk project on the Lendrum, I go longer and longer between times of sitting down to spin. It doesn't actually feel bad; it just isn't something I find I have the impulse to do very Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-57101284161203586612014-04-08T11:47:00.002-04:002014-04-08T11:47:59.706-04:004.8.2014 Latest lace blob
This is one of the shawl's on my bucket list: Pacific Northwest by Evelyn Clark. I intended to take the purple merino with me on vacation (off to not-very-sunny-at-the-time Charleston, SC). The pattern I wanted wouldn't print at all reasonably, so I grabbed the alpaca lace I had sitting about and the one copy of the two of Pacific Northwest that I had sitting about and a random Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-63937585334844764042014-04-05T17:24:00.002-04:002014-04-05T17:36:15.882-04:004.5.2014 More grey corriedale
I suspect that should I ever want blog fodder in the next five years I can drag out the grey Corriedale again.
No one would every be able to be quite sure whether I was showing you a work in process or just pulling your leg.
This is bobbin six of the singles, to be the last of the singles needed for the bobbin above; bobbin 2 of the chain plied finished product. I do like Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-39867286289279918422014-04-02T11:28:00.002-04:002014-04-02T11:28:21.013-04:004.2.2014 Rock Island done
The Rock Island shawl is finished: washed, blocked, worn, the whole nine yards. Photographed finally.
Most of the lace was in the edging, then a bit more in the panel. Not a difficult lace - the pattern is very repetitive and easy to follow. Not so easy to pick up when you catch your needle on the side of the sofa and rip a jagged section off the needles - I tried picking Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-31993913920130248832014-03-31T21:27:00.002-04:002014-03-31T21:28:59.818-04:00To get your very own wall o' snow:Step 1: Have the weatherman predict snow, then hastily at the last minute upgrade it to 1 or 2 inches, no, 3 or 6 inches, what the heck, lets go for 8 or more!
Step 2: Have your neighbor move all his cars out of the driveway so he can have a furniture delivery made at 8 pm at night. This will give him a good reason to forget that he's left his car in the street.
Step 3: Get 8 inches snow Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com0