Wishcasting Wednesday

Today is another Wishcasting Wednesday, and Jamie asks us to think about

what we wish to stretch.

Often I have found myself thinking it would be great to have just another day to spend with that certain someone that I've been visiting. Or another few hours to spend just sitting around the house crafting or cooking before work.

I guess what I am saying is that I wish to be able to stretch time.

I would like to be able to make time with loved ones last longer and time doing unenjoyable things go faster. I have always enjoyed being able to leave the hustle and bustle of work and run off for mini weekend vacations, either actually leaving or taking mental breaks. If I were able to actually make this time last longer then it actually is would be pretty much the best thing that I could stretch.

Milkweed Project

I have just become a participant in the Stitches and Sticks Milkweed Project. I just started my entry for the project. I am going to do a piece that looks like fish scales or fans. With what I am doing it isn't going to be a flat piece. It is curling around itself as of now.

This is what my piece looks like now.

I only have three rows done or it and the piece, from what I've read on another blog that needs to be at least three feet long but on the homesite it can be as long as I want it to be. I think I'm going to try to use up my ball of yarn that I am using. I am going to be collaborating with artist Shan Bryan-Hanson.

I hope to have it done in time so that way it can be added into the Milkweed before it is too late. Except to see more pictures as my project grows.

Wishcasting Wednesday

Today Jamie asks us

What do you wish to learn?

I've thought about this question all day today and all that I can think of that I want to learn is to...

• budget my time better
• budget my money so it will last longer then two weeks
• purl, once I can do that knitting patterns will be easy for me to do.
• build an amazing resume that way I will land that dream job that everyone is trying to get.

By learning to do these things I feel that I will become a better person that will have time to spare and money to do fun things with. I will have some amazing knitted projects to do. All while working at a great job that is fun, exciting, challenging, helpful to society, and not too stressful.

The Battle is on!

Bridget

vs

Lemon Meringue Pie

Yesterday I was asked jokingly? by my father to make a lemon meringue pie sine I have the day off. It has been a few years since I tried to make that beast. What happened the last time I made it the filling didn't become a solid. So we had Lemon Meringue soup pie.

I decided to take on the challenge. I was armed with a foodnetwork recipe by Alton Brown, any recipe by him is easy to follow and tasty.I read it over and found it to be fairly simple. I just needed to buy a pie crust. I wasn't going to go all Suzy Homemaker today.

I first separated the eggs then moved onto the water and corn starch. That was when the pie struck its first attack back. The pot holding the water and corn starch fell to the floor.

Was that the end of the battle?

No I fought back by dumping out what didn't end up on the floor and re-measured the water and cornstarch then added the needed amount of sugar to the pot. Then started the long mixing process. Stirring for what seemed like hours until the mixture became a semi solid. Once that happened I added around half of it to my egg yokes.

When I got to this step I realized that my crust wasn't ready for the filling. I needed to quickly bake the crust and have it ready by the time the filling was set. This was the pie's retaliation against my determination to win the fight.

Would I give up now?

I quickly unrolled the crust and formed it to the pie pan and poked holes in it with my fork. While it cooked I read on with the recipe and found out that I also forgot to make the meringue for the topping! That's two blows against me! Since I was done with the filling I needed to think fast. I placed the filling onto of the burner that has the over vent that way it would stay warm while the meringue was being made. I was very pleased to find that it only took a few minutes to complete.

I decided that the crust didn't need to bake all the way through since it was going to bake with the rest of the pie latter on. I took it out 4 minutes early and poured in the filling and scooped on the meringue. I was winning!

Once I got the meringue on and looking how I wanted it to, I popped it into the oven and started clean up. After 11 minutes in the over it came out looking perfect.

All that is left now it to let it cool and serve it up for dessert tonight! I won't know it have actually won the battle until then. As of right now I have won.

New Projects!

Today I was a busy little crocheter. I completed a scarf that I started last night around this time. I started and completed a hat and I made a few flowers.

Here is the scarf that I made using my own pattern. I did ten triple stitches across. I made it long enough to wrap around my neck and be tied in the front.

When I got it to the length that I wanted it I chained six and single stitched into the triple. I

repeated this until I got to the end. Then I did six double stitches in each of the loops with a single stitch where each loop connected with the body of the scarf. It was a fun way to use up some yarn.

This is the hat that I made today. The author of the pattern stated at the bottom of it that she has copyrights to it and that since I am publishing this picture on the internet as my "own

creation" I need to have a link to her pattern.

I think that I did something wrong with it because I don't know of anyone who would fit into

this hat. So I am giving it to my little ebay expert to sell. Hopefully so

meone will purchase it and wear it.

These are the two of the three flowers that I made. The third one I added to the hat. I am going to make a few more of these for the scarf I think, or I could put them on my hat that I made for myself?

Either way I need to now finish the projects that I have been doing for a while now. The red and white glittens and my other hat.

It has been a few days since I have worked on this project. I think tomorrow will be the day that I finish this glitten and start working on the other hand. Hopefully I can make the same errors in the second one so that way it is the same size. I have no idea what I did to make it so big in

the hand .

This is what I have done with my hat. I am at the point where I am slowly taking away stitches to curve out the top of it. But when I count the number of stitches I have the same number as before I took anyway. I put the hat on and it looks like it is going in. I hope that I am just counting wrong with it.

Once I am done with my glitten in progress I will get back to this hat. Until then this hat is going to be the "bane of my existence."

What the?

This post is going to go all over the place. just to warn you.

I just don't understand some people's buying habits. I've been at Younkers working a lot more then what I would like to admit. Last week when we had our earn and burn sale going on we had butt loads of people shopping and buying. But this weekend when we are having our Labor Day sale we are no where near as busy with just a few costumers buying off the yellow dot racks. 80% off the markdown price. With the current sale that is going on where all denim is on sale an associate would think that more jeans would be selling then anything else. From what I saw yesterday I was selling just a lot of our heavily discounted items.

I've decided to start giving the postal service some business. I'm starting to write letters/postcards to different people.

I have finished my hat and my mittens/glittens. I still have to finish them off but the hat is fully completed. I have moved on to another hat and the glittens for my boyfriend's mother. I have

about half of one of the glittens completed and somehow it has become the size I would need for my hands. So they are too big for her. I don't think that she would mind. She was very happy to find out that I was making glittens instead of mittens.

If I get them done by the end of the month I think I'll mail both the hat and the glittens down to them. That way they can have them before it starts getting too cold outside. All that I have left to do with this one that is pictured is the remaining three fingers and the mitten flap. I think that I am going to attach buttons to the cuff that way the wearer and secure the flap down and have full use of their fingers. I'm going to need to go button shopping!

I've realized that on my days off I've become the stereotypical 1950's housewife. too bad I live at my parents. All that I do when I am not working is either knit or crochet and cook. I also clean the house a little bit. All that I am missing is wearing a dress and heels while I do this. Maybe I just found my halloween costume?

Wishcasting Wednesday

It's been a few months since I've done this.

Today Jamie asks us What do you wish to begin?

I wish to begin projects that I will finish, not just with my knitting and crocheting but with raising money to get myself out of debt enough that I can move out of my parents house and live on my own again. That is a major project that I have been working on for the past few years. I have realized that driving across the state of Wisconsin is not that much fun or that safe just to see the people that I miss.

see yesterdays post for more on that.