Last night we made waffles for a late snack/supper . . I added left over spaghetti (which were cut into about 2cm pieces) from the dinner earlier. It doesn’t bring much of taste, but the waffles becomes more of a food, than just snack.
The recipe is as follow:
250 g white flour
60 g of sugar (I used brown sugar)
2 teaspoon of baking powder (not soda)
a pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of cardamom
1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
6 decilitres of milk
4 eggs whipped
4 spoons of butter, melted
(I also added a little bunch of spaghetti that was left over from the dinner)
Do like this:
1. Mix all the dry stuff
2. Stir in half of the milk, making it smooth
3. Add the rest of the milk, the eggs and the butter
4. Let stand for at least 15 minutes, to swell
5. Make them in a waffle-iron, slightly brown
6. Serve with jam, sour cream, sugar etc. :)
And we figured it would be kind of boring just to have normal waffles, so we added a whole bottle of food colouring, red. But the waffles turned out to be more pink. And it was a bit disturbing eating the, because the inside of it, looked like flesh and bones (because of the spaghetti)
You cant really see the colour, but pictures are below.
This is the mixture.
This is the mixture in the waffel-iron.
And this is what it looks like (the day after). As you can see they only look a bit pink in the corners and the inside of them.
A little while ago I figured I could problably knit christmas/birthday gifts. That helps me for having something to do, I give away something crafty, and maybe it is just the perfect gift?
Anyway, I decided that my sister could get some armwarmers, seeing as it seems as it is her kind of thing. I made my choice upon some striped armwarmers in black and white. The yarn is a little bit thick and I used size 5,5 needles.
I basically casted on 34 stitches. Knitted one round, then one round purl, another purl, and last a normal round again. Then I knitted 5 stitches, casted off 4, the continued on the round, then started onto the next round, when I reached the part where I had casted off some stitches in the previous round, I added 4 stitches, making the number of stitches back to 34. Then I knitted round 3 and 4. Before beginning at the beginning again (except the thumb hole thing). Knitted until I had my desired width. After that I casted all the stitches off and sewed the armwarmer together. Then knitted the other.
Pictures below.
A long time ago, my little sister decided she wanted to knit as well. So she bought yarn and got needles from my mum. She started to knit, it went alright, but the yarn she got was a little strange (it varied in width), so she found it difficult. I said I could take over for her. I knitted a bit, but it got quite boring. :P So it has just been lying around for months, she has forgotten about it too. But last month I decided I could use it as a gift for her, so I got it all done. It is in blue and green. And it is basically just 25 stitches ( I think) back and forth for as long as there is yarn left.
My boyfriend Johnny is my little show off model :)
I recently tried to make several armwarmers, and trying out different techniques. Not so advaced, but a little. I had a little bit of white yarn left over from a previous project, so I decided to try something new. I casted on 40 stitches on four needles. I also knitted with another thicker, whiter tread, a ‘string’ that goes upwards. . . See pictures, difficult to explain. How I did that was to knit two with my MC, then one purl with the other tread, then finish knitting the round, then knitting three MC stitches, one purl with the other, and so on until I reached the part when the thumb were to be made. I am not a very experienced knitter, so I just did what was easiest (what I thought at least) to make the thumb. I turned my knitting around and knitted a round (when the knitting was turned I knitted purl), then turned it again, and so on until the thumb hole was done, then I knitted as usual until the length I wanted was acquired.
But the result was to too comforting. I now know that knitting like this isnt really comfortable. As the knitting doesn’t stretch when you take it on. But I will still post the pictures. I like the other white tread that circles around the arm warmer. It was a nice lesson.
Pictures below.
A couple of weeks ago I went to a very big party for all the people in Trondheim (my city) who had graduated from high school. In Norway there is a big celebration after you finish high school, it is called “Russetiden” or “Russ”. And I am not sure, but I think this is unique for Norway. Anyway during this time (which is in may) we party a lot. A bit too much some might say. Everybody wears these special pants and clothing in a colour according to what you have studied. I was a red “Russ”. So going to this party meant that I should wear these kind of clothes again. Unfortunately for me, my clothing is back home to my parents. So I decided I could just wear something else red. I had a shaw and shoes. But wanted something more, so I knitted a arm warmer (I were supposed to knit two, but I ran out of yarn, and the store closed just as I realized this), and there were enough yarn for a thumb warmer, so that was it.
I knitted it exactly as I did with the short black arm warmers (see an earlier post), except I casted on 20 stitches instead.
Pictures below of my little work.
