Knitted Pot Sock

Here is my pattern for a Pot Sock. I use cast iron pans so this is a useful item in my kitchen! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POT SOCK

 

Small amounts of cotton kitchen yarn

With 2 strands held together –

Chain 17,

Sc in second ch from hook and in each ch across – 16 sc, chain 1, turn

Next 14 rows ; sc in each sc across, ch 1, turn, fasten off.

Sc along one narrow edge.

Fold piece in half lengthwise, and working through both thicknesses, sc along side edge, other narrow edge, and other side edge, working 3 sc in corners. Fasten off. I turn the top down as a cuff. If you want a loop to hang it with - 

Chain 14, fasten off. Sew to lower edge for a hanging loop.

 Enjoy!

 

Hello old friends!

Yes, it’s been awhile. Computers! Arg!

Anyhoo, I have pictures to share. Let’s start with the oldest.

Our tea with neighbors.

It was a lovely Blue Willow day.

Next are two of my dollar store finds! I need a bag for every project or they get lost. I found these in several “Bikini Bottom” prints and solids. Now, almost all summer projects have a bag!

I’ll insert a cool flower that bloomed. DD#1 received these flowers from the “best boyfriend in the world” before heading off to India. This one “artichoke” looking thing didn’t open until 2 weeks after she left. Very Star Trek looking.

Now for the Pot Sock I did. I have several cast iron pans and needed a hot pad for the handles. I made these and will post the pattern for it in a day or two. Very quick with double stranded kitchen cotton. 

And lastly, I made a felted wine bag. What a fun project. I think I’ll sell these around town. I used Patons SWS yarn which is wool and soy. One ball. 

Here it is before felting.

And after the washing machine magic!

 

 

I loved the stripes! I blocked it with a 1-liter soda bottle. Boy, felt is fun!

Ok, that’s it for now. I have more tea menus to post as well as some knit patterns. I’ll get to work on those now!

Cheers!

Trip to the airport

Today we saw my DD#1 fly off to India for the month of June. It was quick and easy and they even put her on an earlier flight since they are expecting delays due to weather later this afternoon. Parking was easy, no line at the ticket counter and no line at security. Grace and Ease. Perfect. It is still hard to see that tall girl with 2 long braids head off on her own in the thicket of the airport! I can’t think too much about it or the mascara begins to run. 

She got a heads up from a fellow traveler to make sure to have toilet tissue in a bag for the airport in Dehli. A little different airport that Hartsfield Atlanta. You know, I don’t need to travel to a country where I need to worry about toilets. Maybe I’m old, or maybe I’m smart. I think both! So 27 hours of air time and 2 days of travel. Once on the ground in India she immediately boards a train and continues traveling for another full day until the foothills of the Himalaya’s. Then they rest in a hotel before the ascent and living in tents. I am tired just thinking about it! 

More updates on the traveling newt when we get them.

Cheers!

 

Menu’s to try

I have put together a Frances Virginia Tea and a Coca-Cola Tea.

I love Coca-Cola cake! I was introduced to one 24 years ago by a true southern belle of advanced years. It was a church function and she was gracious enough to give me a handwritten recipe for her cake. It is beyond sweet, but perfect for a summer afternoon! 

Speaking of summer, here are some shots of DD#2 in our “pool”. What a hoot this pool is! It is a “Quick Set Pool” and it looks like a giant jam pot! We have had it 4 years now and it has stretched out so it may not be as deep as it once was, but it is bigger. 

Stay cool everybody!

Cheers!

cooking

Well, I just finished my second summer reading book Julie and Julia by Julie Powell. I hear there is a moving coming with Meryl Streep as Julia Child. I don’t know about that. I still think Dan Ackeroyd was the perfect Julia! (For those of us old enough to remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.) I read My Life In France first since that is the autobiography of Julia Child. It was wonderful and I so would have loved to have been her friend! Julie and Julia is about one women’s year of cooking everything in Julia Child’s How to Master the Art of French Cooking and her epiphany concerning herself and her life. Not a big fan of this book but I’m done with it. In honor of completing the book I have added my Red Velvet Cake recipe as well as my Brownie recipe to the side bar. Both are simple to make. I said Simple, not Fast. I like to cook from scratch – tastes better. It may not be French cooking, but it is Southern Cooking!

Longtime, no laptop!

How lazy am I that I don’t write because my laptop is having mini strokes? I do have 3 other computers at my disposal upstairs, but that is upstairs, not on the deck. Yes, what can I say. So now the laptop is on a table with another keyboard plugged in as well as a mouse. Not a laptop anymore. 

I have a backlog of stuff to tell! There was a quilting tour, a tea party for neighbors, putting up our silly pool and a booty load of tea menu ideas. I’ll post on each of these when I reload the brain of the laptop with my former stuff. 

I will share my summer lists. I like to feel like I am on a summer break even if we don’t take vacations and we homeschool as always through the hot summer. I know, poor DD#2! Oh, well.

So here is my summer reading list.

My Life in France 

Julie and Julia

A Year in Provance

Heaven and Earth

Goodnight Mr. Holms

Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea

1000 Days in Tucany

1000 Days in Venice

Can you spot the food theme?

 

Ok, now the arts and crafts list.

Finish a peach llama lace scarf

Finish my green llama stole

Finish peach mystery stole

Work on Family Tree embroidery

Dress loom for denim rug

 

And lastly I want to watch Monarch of the Glen again; plan a summer solstice feast; explore artisan breads. And walk every morning and write each day as well. 

P.S. I’ll post my Red Velvet Cake recipe later this week. 

cheers!