Lime Street Knits

Although I spent the bulk of this weekend helping a friend shoot a trailer for the Brattle Theater 2007 Trailer Smackdown, there has been knitting progress. The first panel for Grace is complete and I've started the second. I've also done a bit of triage and determined that it will be easier to complete the projects with no ends to weave in first. So I've turned my attention to Sticky Wicket. I completed a good five inches on her yesterday and plan to dedicate my lunch hour to her today. I am embarrassed to admit that when I discovered poor Wicket, her live stitches were being held by a safety pin. I had hijacked her needles several months prior to work up a baby sweater. In my defense, she was taking up a pair of Lantern Moons. It seemed an awful waste.



All told, the most difficult part about resuming work on Wicket was remembering the pattern. Whenever I start a new project, I make a note of it in one of my two knitting notebooks. (I have one for projects from published patterns and one for patterns that I work up myself.) I note the type of yarn, (colors, dye lot, etc.) pattern and any modifications I make along the way if it's a pre-existing pattern. If it's something I'm making up as I go along, I just use my design notebook to document the process. But after rifling through both notebooks several times, I was forced to admit that Wicket must have slipped through the cracks. (Surprising, considering how sticky she is.) I had not recorded her information anywhere. So it took a little working backwards to remember her pattern. This mild sleuthing actually reignited my interest in Wicket, at least temporarily. I'm hoping that I can finish her off by Friday and present her to my Mom this weekend.

There was also cooking this weekend, of the healthy variety. I made this wonderful Fresh Pea Soup with Mint, courtesy of Ms. Sarah Moultin. I actually made a second batch, but added one clove of garlic to the onions about a minute before they were finished and upped the amount of mint to one and a half tablespoons. If you plan on giving the recipe a whirl, I highly recommend these modifications. I also prepared a large jar of Summer Fruit with Wine and Mint, courtesy of Giada De Laurentis. Little modifier that I am, I used strawberries, blueberries and red grapes instead of the fruits indicated and used Sauternes with a quarter cup of sugar.