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I Made Things This Weekend

Specifically, a cake and a sock.

chocolate bourbon pecan cake
This is a piece of chocolate bourbon pecan cake with caramel whipped cream. All made by me for my dad’s birthday dinner. OMG IT WAS AWESOME.

my first sock
First sock attempt = Success! Maybe not perfect, but it looks like a sock and that’s all I care about.

Posted in Food & Drink, Knitting, Photos. on Monday, Nov 17, 2008

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  1. Soosan said
    on Mon, November 17, 2008

    wait…. hold up… you finished a sock, and not just any sock, your first sock… in a single weekend??? One day I’ll give socks a chance.

  2. freakgirl said
    on Mon, November 17, 2008

    I did! But I spent a LOT of time on it.

  3. Soosan said
    on Mon, November 17, 2008

    I keep hearing about this second sock syndrome, so I hope you don’t become afflicted. :) Good job!

  4. Maggie said
    on Mon, November 17, 2008

    SSS doesn’t really affect new sock knitters. It usually turns up in the later stages of sock knitting when the knitter “gets over” knitting 2 of the same thing. Probably by the 4th pair of socks.

  5. Soosan said
    on Mon, November 17, 2008

    good to know. that’s when you start getting crazy ideas about knitting two at once. psychos!! :D

  6. Maggie said
    on Mon, November 17, 2008

    That’s right. Those people are ka-razy! ;)

    So, as I see it, you’re going to have to make 10 different cakes and cupcake varieties so we can sample all these goodies when we come to visit. Get to work. :)

  7. freakgirl said
    on Mon, November 17, 2008

    I know, Maggie, we’re going to have to make a list. I’ll be chained to the oven!

  8. the other andrew said
    on Mon, November 17, 2008

    They both look delicious. Toe up or top down? (The sock that is)

  9. freakgirl said
    on Mon, November 17, 2008

    Top down, I guess? Started with the cuff.

  10. the other andrew said
    on Tue, November 18, 2008

    I heart toe up. (No icksworthy grafting to do at the end.) Plus that magical seamless cast on makes me feel like I can bend space and do cold fusion.

  11. Maggie said
    on Tue, November 18, 2008

    I find increasing at the toe a lot more fiddly than grafting. But I find grafting easy. Because I’m magical! I like toe-up with a short-row toe.

    Freakgirl, I’ll bring my special oven chain.

  12. freakgirl said
    on Tue, November 18, 2008

    I suck at grafting. But Maggie will teach me a better way when she gets here in January. Before she chains me to the oven, I mean.