Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Slinglings]

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Chickypoos~ I'm sorry, where did we meet? It's sometimes hard for me to match up screen names with real people It must have been at Ruth's or ThirdPlaceBooks?

 

[hallerlake]

My MIL sent me this for Xmas:

Can we share your MIL?

 

[CarolynF]

@ Slinglings -- gorgeous wall hanging! batiks are so beautiful and the theme is perfect! I'll have to look around for that or similar patterns. As if I didn't have a big enough backlog as it is. hehehe

@ LaughingFeather You've got that right! I want it to! Maybe CR can arrange a Rustling party.

@ FirewifeJess I'd like to give knitting a try mostly because when we travel with the trailer I need something to do. The truck has too rough a ride to do my applique so I'm kind of stuck and bored. I think doing wool projects that can be felted would be fun.

@ by LaughingFeather Dang, you mean we have to keep living? But I bet the farm on it... now I've lost? What ever shall I do (she whined in a syrupy southern belle drawl) hehehe
I think the Mayan calendar maker just got bored and took up a new hobby!

Gotta go do more Christmas stuff, those packages just don't wrap themselves!

 

[hallerlake]

Might as well share my finished item today: stitch markers with a thingy to keep them from getting lost. I rebent the clasp after this photo, and forgot to re=photograph; it went out in a box lined with black Baaachus wool, which I also should have photographed, oops.

You did all the wire bending yourself? Nice job.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: That picture I brought back from China had chickens, didn't it? I was prescient. Who knew we'd end up with chickens?

 

[CarolynF]

FREE DOG CRATE in Olympia on CL

http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/zip/3492854851.html
Black metal dog crate, comes apart for transport. Measures 22"X24" 30" tall. Has small crack in one corner of the removable plastic tray.

 

[Slinglings]

Quote: Sure We should have you for dinner when they visit next, she loves giving dinner parties and they're interesting people

I actually have something from my FIL for Scott, we need to get together sometime so he can pick it out..it's a long story very briefly~ My FIL is a b&w hobbyist photographer and Scott mentioned that he liked some of the photographs on our walls~ Last year my FIL made 8 boxes of his best prints and gave them to 8 different people, with a letter explaining what he would like done with the prints. We are supposed to send the prints out into the world, to whomever we see fit. He just wants the photos to exist, he doesn't care who has them Only one is a duplicate of a print that we have and I'm having trouble parting with the rest to be honest, but I'm not supposed to keep them! ...Maybe one will speak to you. (and maybe I can talk FIL into making me a replacement print LOL) It should have occurred to me to give you a print when you were here, but it simply didn't cross my mind...they're in a box and I never think about them. (I know this is all off topic, but saying all of this publicly will hopefully make me do what I'm supposed to do..sigh.)

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Might as well share my finished item today: stitch markers with a thingy to keep them from getting lost. I rebent the clasp after this photo, and forgot to re=photograph; it went out in a box lined with black Baaachus wool, which I also should have photographed, oops.

You did all the wire bending yourself? Nice job.

Yeah, it's the easy part (cutting and polishing is the tough stuff!)

 

[Totalcolour]

Quote: X 2. Do you just cut Vs into the round or do have to do something fancy to get that effect?
No, you just take scissors, and cut into the loaf after it has risen, just before going into the oven. Pull the spikes out a tad and that's it! Super easy!

 

[Totalcolour]

Quote: Carolyn, thank you ! It is super easy, I bet you could do it with your lavender sourdough. To form it, you make a ball, then flatten it our a bit and poke your fingers through the middle. Then it's sort of like stretching and squeezing to make the ring bigger. finally just let it rest and rise. Then before putting it in the oven, snip the spikes with scissors, and pull them out a bit.

I will pm this recipe, but I bet yours would be good. This was just a plain one, so it wouldn't mask the flavours of the oils and pate.

This is a link to show you how to make smaller ones, but the technique is the same.

http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/2...or-bread-and-announcing-a-winner-of-the-books