Moving on with the slippers this morning and I decided the two colors I'm using may not make it, not enough. So I rummaged around in the donated yarn and found two hanks of machine washable black yarn that will do okay, to be included in the color blocks.
But take a look
Left is how the hank starts out. But it doesn't uncoil once as usual, into a single skein. Instead it's like bread you pull apart. Turns out to be several small skeins as you see. In the forefront is an uncoiled one. This makes quite a small ball of yarn. I wonder about this. It means a lot of joins in the knitting, not usually a good thing. Knitters, do you have any theories about this?
Anyway Misfits arrived still in the white rental truck. I wonder if the pink van is in the shop. It takes weeks to get parts nowadays.
Can for the food pantry, and I had more for them already, Envy apples, bigger than gala or Rockits, plenty of potatoes to parboil ready for roasting or mashing, depending.
Spinach because it goes everywhere, unsalted butter because what I have is salted but I like baking with unsalted because I can add as I want, Bananaz because they're a great snack and I may mash some for future banana bread.
Soy sauce, not Kikkoman, just trying a different one, peanut butter for granola bars, cod to go with roast potatoes and maybe broccoli which I already have.
Red lentils because I'm all out and they're a staple, particularly for tofu, yogurt likewise a staple, I use it in pastry as well as a sour cream sub. Hot spicy plant based sausage. I might make sausage rolls with yogurt pastry. Or croquettes with roast potatoes and spinach. No end of ideas.
So that's us. I'm happy to say none of my relatives was arrested from a palace today.
If it's a tough day, we can say well at least I wasn't arrested for passing on official secrets. Yeah I know that's the least of his crimes, but remember Al Capone went down for tax evasion, so there's that. Sez Ted and Big Ursy and Pony.
