Mossy Cottage Knits

Order Has Been Restored

Between The Scarf That Destroyed the Universe and The Piece of Angry Pie, things have been quite unpredictable in Mossy Cottage Land lately. Fortunately, however—and this will assuage those Dear Readers who were concerned about the fact that we had 2/3 of a pie left two days after Christmas—the pie is now long gone, as is an entire container of Calm and Content Cool Whip. And, yes, that includes the piece of Angry Pie, consumed by The Mysterious K herself—although I wasn’t around to witness the emotional explosion, if there was one, that occurred afterward, and nothing appeared in the Seattle Times the next day about a woman running amok in the streets of North Seattle threatening innocent passersby with an empty Pyrex pie plate, so I think the worst of it is over.

And the Scarf That Destroyed the Universe is gone as well. True to my word, I did knit a second, identical scarf and attempt to sew the two scarf sides together, but they were both so determined to curl—so determined—they just made a large cannelloni-like tube, not the flat, double-thick warm scarf I had envisioned. About half-way into sewing two halves together, I just shouted, “Bah!” and threw the whole thing on the floor. The kid got a book. (Which he immediately attempted to rip apart. He must've had a piece of Angry Pie.)

(BTW, I can’t tell you how much I loved the comments on the Angry Pie entry, especially Aven’s story of slapping her rhubarb pie. Who knew this blog could make people confess their deepest, darkest culinary secrets?

BTW #2, I confirmed with TMK that she does indeed put nutmeg in her pie. Apparently this is extremely important to some of you.

BTW #3, for those of you who make pies, for the last two pies, TMK has tried something new which she read about in "Cook's Illustrated" magazine: she sautés the apples a little first. This prevents them from shrinking or turning into applesauce and prevents that large gap that sometimes occurs between the top crust and the apple filling. There; I've exhausted all I know about making pies.)

On a less destructive note, I have continued in my efforts to make things for all the babies that are popping up (I first typed “pooping up." Appropriate, no?) at work. We are now up to six. Ack!

Remember this sweater?

It was intended for Baby #1 but it is taking so frickin’ long I completely copped out and whipped these out instead:

I was sure that the mother would appreciate them, at least for their small-sockedness, even if she never actually put them on her child, but I was not prepared for the loud “Squee!!!” she emitted when I presented them to her. Apparently her daughter, even at the young age of umpty-ump months, has overly large feet and these socks—which I thought would fit a two or three year old—fit her now. So Maw and Paw, both of whom work here, were very happy, although Paw did not say, “Squee!!”

I also continue to work on the sweaters for the twins, green for the girl, purple for the boy:

And I am determined to get item #13 on the needles for Dulaan this week, although at this point I haven't the vaguest idea what it's going to be. After all, as I said, things have been a leetle unpredictable.

Posted by Ryan at January 6, 2006 10:58 AM