Crafty Weekend

Saturday's craft day was wonderful and relaxing. I knit the third of the 3 flower washcloths I bought yarn for a YEAR ago. :) My original thought was I'd give them as a gift to the next friend who was having a girl baby (5 out of 6 people I know are having boys!). As luck would have it she was sitting right there at the table with me Saturday. *grin* So I wove in the ends and handed them over. She seemed quite surprised and said she didn't know if she dared use them as washcloths, but was considering appliqueing them onto a baby quilt she had. Cool! :)

I also started on my Bloomin' Feet pal's socks. In honor of Spring (or the Spring that I wish would hurry up!), I'm knitting the Yarn Harlot's Tiptoe Through the Tulips socks from Knitty in sweet Easter-y colors. I've had to re-start a couple of times, though, because I'm having gauge issues. I'm using Dale of Norway Baby Ull (which I hear is sooo fab for socks)--but, ladies, this yarn is tiny! I knit it up on US3 and my gauge was still too tight--and the resulting fabric was so thin you could see through it. Ugh. So, I'm whipping out the calculator and knitting them on US1 so I can at least achieve a fabric that I'm happy with giving to someone.
Also at craft day, one of my friends was working on a quilt and having a heck of a time deciding on lights/mediums/darks for her fabrics. I immediately remembered the new Knitty article on color theory--and it really works! :) We pulled out my camera and snapped away in black and white. She was worried that the swirl pattern of her blocks wasn't showing up. But in black & white it became really obvious that it was going to work out. :)

On Sunday, we went to a Superbowl party and I made some incredibly awesome mandarin orange cupcakes from Christina's site that I read about on the Cupcake Blog. Oh, my! Go make these right away! They have mandarin juice and zest in the batter and are so delicious and delicate. I plan on making a full-size cake with this recipe one day. Yum!

And I think the inevitable has occurred. I think I'm going to have to switch to the new Blogger. Every group blog I belong to is in the new format which means I can't post to any of them until I switch. Nice coersion technique, Blogger. I'll do it right away, though, so Bloglines doesn't go too crazy on you with the extra updates. :)

Have a great week, everyone!