Can "Garlic Lime Chicken" be knitted?

My boys saw me taking a picture of our chicken in the frying pan and they all said: "that's not knitting, why are you taking a picture of that for your knitting blog?" Guess I must have knitted dinner, if it's going in my blog???

Last night for supper I made(knitted) Garlic Lime Chicken, which is one of my family's favorite chicken recipes. This recipe is one of the easiest, fastest and tastiest chicken recipes I make. Spicy hot, but not burn your whole mouth and digestive tract spicy hot. The wonderful cooking aroma lingers in the house and I feel like I am enjoying more chicken with out actually eating more later on in the evening. If you are interested, the recipe comes from Leanne Ely's book Saving Dinner Leanne also has a web site savingdinner.com. Check out her free sample menu mailers. Click on menus and that will lead you to the free ones. It's great for people who have a hard time getting meals together because she also give you the shopping list!

As far as knitting goes it's been a slow week. I have nothing finished but I do have two projects on the needles. My ball-band dish towel is almost done. I'm anxious to finish it and try it out. My other project is going very slowly. There will be more about that later.

One of my goals this summer was to finish my counted cross stitch picture. I've got a lot done, but have not worked on it lately. School starts on Tuesday, but the summer isn't over yet right?

I'm so excited....

On a quick trip to AC Moore I found Paton's classic merino on sale. Besides their usual assortment of solid colors and marls they had an array of handpainted looking varigated colorways. I visit AC Moore on a fairly regular basis and check out the yarn very carefully and I might add that I never saw these yarns before today. Lately they have been getting new yarns in stock. I had been looking at the varigated Lion wool and the new Caron varigated felting yarn which is actually roving. My sophie bag turn out so nice using the Paton's classic, I knew I couldn't resist. I've been wanting to do another felting project. In addition the fact that it was on sale was a plus. My heart started thumping and I knew I just has to purchase some. I bought four skeins. Hope it will be enough.
Choosing a colorway was really difficult! I felt myself navigating towards the blue shades, then the pink/browns and then I said to myself, "go ahead pick some thing a little different". What's nice about what I picked is that I think it will go with just about anything with the blue, brown, salmon and green. Can't wait to start my new felted project!

P.S. Looks like another trip to AC Moore. The skein second from the right, I think has a dye defect. Too bad I didn't notice it in the store. Hopefully they will have more of the same lot when I go back, minus the white. Keeping my fingers crossed til then!

Garterlac

This is my first Garterlac dishcloth. It is also my first attempt at anything resembling enterlac ! I have been wanting to try the technique, but not get too involved in a big project incase it wasn't for me. For the most part I enjoyed making the cloth. Definitely a little tricky to master, but I am happy with the way the first one turned out. Perhaps the next will be even better. This is not knitting for my knitting bag that I take everywhere with me for waiting around times. I do have to concentrate on what I'm doing, but I hope it gets easier with more practice. This is definitely a good pre- enterlac practice drill. Maybe now I may try to make one of those entrelac felted bags that I have been drooling over!