Dishcloth addiction: an array of ball-bands

Knitting dishcloths one at a time, I didn't realize that I was accumulating quite a collection. This summer I have really been addicted to making soooo many. Now I keep looking and buying more yarn to make more...oh no not more! I've been looking for new patterns, too, especially unusual ones which interest me the most. If any one out there has a pattern or link to a pattern be sure and let me know. I love Dave's garterlac pattern. I finished my one and only garterlac dishcloth and I'm definitely making more. Now I have to stop blogging and knit more...

My Mason-Dixon ball band dishtowel is finished!

My ball band dishtowel is finally finished. I've been working on it for awhile now. You definitely do not get the instant gratification of knitting a dishcloth when knitting a towel, but it is definitely worth the extra effort. I can't wait to try it out. This will be great for doing all my hand washing of dishes and pots and pans. It's nice and big and I really think it will be very absorbant. I cast on 90 stitches and made 33 ball bands in total. That's twice the width of of a dishcloth and about 2 and 1/2 times the length, which equals about five dishcloths. The yarn I used was Peaches and Cream shaded pastels (pink, blue and mint green) and white. Now I can concentrate on bigger and better things.

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?