it was so warm today that it felt like summer. i made my first cold salad of the season: kale with toasted cashews and sunflower and pomegranate seeds. we had it with an orange lentil soup which is so easy to make (just onion, garlic, a little tumeric/cumin and cinnamon, vegetable broth and lentils).
i also bought a larger cat carrier for cricket and zuzu, which cricket is lying down in at the moment (after bouncing around on top of it several times).
there's a nice cool breeze coming in through the window now . .
It was so cold here on Thursday that I lit the fire - poor Milo had to go to the vet for his annual vaccination and came home a little cross - so he hid upstairs for the rest of the day
ReplyDeleteYour meal looks delicious
Siobhan x
Hi Siobhan! The weather is so funny how it jumps around. I hope Milo is feeling better :) xo (P.S. I love pomegranate seeds)
DeleteWe also had a really muggy day, kind of strange to have that in May. Your salad looks good! Is the cat carrier just for them to play with? Is it a soft one?
ReplyDeleteNo, I bought it so they would have a more roomy experience in the car! The other one is now too small. They're grown so much!
DeleteAh, I see. We have those hard plastic carriers, but we do not really go places with Leo. He seems to be okay in them.
DeleteI have a good 10 to 15 minute walk with the cats when we go to the vet . . these soft carriers have a strap that I can sling over my shoulder.
DeleteThat is very convenient! We have to take the car because we have to drive at least 30 minutes.
DeleteMy sister has to drive to her vet also, but it's a little closer.
DeleteAh, does she also live in a more rural area?
DeleteHello! Long time lurker barging in…I apologize for my anonymous status, but, google wasn’t recognizing my e-mail address to be able to sign in. Anyway, besides, wanting to share the enjoyment I get from reading your blog, I have a knitting question. The love of the city you are so fortunate to live in shines in your words and pictures! There is so much more I glean from reading, but, my tendency leans towards rambling, so I’ll get to the reason of bothering you in the first place. Would you mind sharing more about the dinner napkins you knit? Is there a favorite cotton(?) yarn you like to use and also a favorite pattern?
ReplyDeleteI appreciate any information you wouldn’t mind sharing😍
~~~THANK YOU~~~
Hi! Welcome and thank you xo. I always use a cotton yarn for the napkins. I think the one in the photo above was made with Punta Yarns South American Cotton, but one of my favorite yarns is Lily Sugar'n Cream which can be found in Joann's and Michael's stores. Otherwise, any cotton yarn you like! Oh, and the pattern is a basic eyelet pattern which I saw at a luncheon at Ithaca's cohousing community years ago: cast on 4 stitches, knit a row, next row knit 2 and then yarnover and knit the rest of the row. Repeat that row. When you get to how wide you would like the napkin to be, begin to decrease: knit 1, knit 2 together, yarnover, knit 2 together and knit to the end of the row. When you decrease to 8 stitches, knit 2 together 4 times so that you have 4 stitches and then bind off. Good luck!
DeleteThank you for responding to my rambling! Your napkins reminded me immediately of my mom. When my kids and my nieces and nephews (her grandchildren:) were little, mom knitted them many of this same pattern. ‘Except’, she made the cloth into a bandana/kerchief type style which we would tie and then the bib part was the attached square’ish’ cloth. When done eating we would use them to clean up their faces! They eventually became dish cloths and finally rags for cleaning! Unfortunately, even though my older sister and I were taught to knit (and still enjoy) we never asked mom for the pattern. We’ve looked for something similar but we think it was her own made up pattern. She would knit the corner to corner, but, with no holes. She supplied my siblings and I with all of our dishcloths! Again, unfortunately, my mom got early onset Alzheimer’s. Interestingly, we could gauge her decline by her cotton dishcloth look. Anyhow, here I go again! A bundle of sugar & cream yarn came in the mail yesterday! Almost done with #1😍
ReplyDeleteI appreciate sharing your napkin pattern and sharing your lovely life in your beautiful city.~Dona
Thank you for your lovely story and words! And such good use from a simple knitted cloth :) I'm glad the pattern is working out for you and you have such warm memories to go with it. Thank you for sharing . . ! xoxo
Delete