Tea Time. A relaxing time. A time where, during the day, you can take a breath and regroup. Today,I was forced to stay home because my son James is working on his car and needed to go to work. I spent the morning doing a load of clothes, started a loaf of bread, harvested several bunches of peppermint, and dried lots of sage. For dinner I went out into the garden and picked lots of thyme to make a lemon/thyme roasted chicken with heritage carrots. And as the chicken was cooking I decided to put together several tea recipes that have muddled around in my brain. For months I have been collecting herbs to make some of these creations. I will look around on the internet for ingredients in the various teas out there, wrote them down and then tried to combine these ingredients in a pleasing way. I wrote out my findings as I was creating, taste the creation, and then make adjustments. The following recipes are what I came up with: Hibiscus Tea A tangy tea with lots of vitamin C ...
Dishcloth looks great! Looks like your tension is nice and even. The trick to knowing where you are in a pattern is learning to read your stitches. That takes a bit of practice. As you are knitting, try to notice and memorize what the stitch below the one you are knitting looks like. So if you are knitting a purl, is the one below it a purl as you are looking at it? If you are knitting a purl, purl, knit, are the ones below a knit, knit purl? If you get into the habit of reading your stitches at the beginning, you'll be able to pick up your work and know where you are in the pattern.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the tips. I have had fun learning some different patterns this week just by doing dishcloths and have come to recognize some of the various stitches...even tried a headband with a lace pattern to it. Knitting is addictive!
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