Un-responsibility-ness

There's been a bit of a lull in the knitting. I don't know if it's because of the weed pulling opportunities that the recent rains have provided, or if it's because I'm baking like baking might add years to my life. Our village fete is this weekend, and I'm on the hook to make Irish soda bread for 240 people. Incidentally, I only signed up to make bread for 120 people, but somehow that number got changed. Thank goodness I don't trust authority figures. I started making bread weeks ago, on the hunch that the powers that be might have their numbers wrong. I've also drafted another sucker to help out. When I do get a moment or two, I've been plugging away on "Striven".


It's a very good end of the day, so tired I can't tell my dog from my baby, sort of project. I think I'm probably going to have to cast on for another sweater in a thicker yarn. Knitting a sweater on size 4 needles is pretty demoralizing, even for those of us who lack morals. I have some Eco-wool in the stash that's been begging for parole. I'm considering the "Placed Cable Aran" by Cathy Payson. It can be found in the Fall 07 issue of Interweave Knits. The only thing holding me back from a quick and dirty cast on, are all of the UFOs hanging out in my living room. I might have to get one of those "No Loitering" signs. Maybe I should just suck it up, and finish them. In my defense, I'm living in a house where this is considered breakfast.


We may have some self control issues going on here. Just in case you don't recognize the container in the back ground, that's chocolate macadamia nut ice cream on a French country loaf. I know, it's genius. I wish I could claim this creation as my own, but my husband deserves all of the credit for this masterpiece of irresponsible cuisine.
On a completely unrelated note, I've got a quilting itch, and it needs scratching. Here's a rough draft of a baby quilt I'm about to start cutting pieces for.


I'm only going to use a couple of fabrics for this. The little cabin in the woods theme should be pretty gender neutral. Gender neutral is key, when you don't can't remember who's pregnant with what.


I think I'll probably end up doing some embroidery on this before I start quilting. I want this quilt to be a little bit dark, like the music from "Peter and the Wolf". Children have lovely dark sides, which should be cultivated with traditional fairy tales and scary quilts.