May. 2nd, 2020

darchildre: Tiny Flash with his arms up going "yay!" (flash says yay!)
THERE WAS YEAST AT THE STORE THIS MORNING!

I haven't been able to make bread for weeks now* and now I can again and indeed started to do so the minute there was yeast in the house and I have never been more excited about baking.

Before the stay-at-home order, I made bread about every other week and when we started this, I thought to myself, "Oh, I'll just make bread every time I get to the end of a loaf - as long as I have the ability to make toast, I am reasonably happy." And then I ran out of yeast and fell into a despair.

I have made quick breads and Mom has made biscuits in the interim but they are Not The Same.

Yay, bread!





*Yes, yes, sourdough, I know. The thing is a) I have tried to keep a starter before and we have never properly gotten on and b) I have a One True Bread recipe and I don't want to fuck it up trying to convert it to a sourdough recipe.
darchildre: the fourth doctor's scarft (crafty geek)
Yesterday, I finished a spinning project I've been working on on-and-off since January. My sister gave me Expandthis fiber ) for my birthday and my mom gave me Expandthis one ) this one for Christmas. They've both got the same shade of blue, so I decided to ply them together as a combo spin.

ExpandThe finished skeins look like this. )

It makes a lovely skein and I had to see what it looked like knit up, so I decided on this shawl and cast on this morning.

You guys, I'm pretty sure this shawl is going to be super funky looking and possibly mildly hideous, because the bright colors are so bright and the blue-and-white fiber was extremely randomized in where the colors were, so there's no predicting how they matched up against the other fiber. I'm so excited about this very bright ugly shawl I'm making.

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