St. Patrick's Day Feast!

Last night was crazy fun! I cooked a big dinner, complete with corned beef, cabbage, mashed potatoes, and soda bread. It must have been a hit, 'cause there were hardly any leftovers. I'm pretty excited that the bread turned out well... it was definitely a gooey mess when I stuck it in the oven.

And the Tar Heels won! Hooray!

Pictures from the occasion can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/smithashley/StPatrickSDay

Knitting Frenzy

I finished my first pair of socks this week! I’m not sure the crazy stripes pattern is really my style, but the yarn was fun to knit with, ’cause I could see that I was making progress. I’m going to wash them before I actually wear them out, but I’m excited to be done - and in only two weeks! As you can see from the pictures, the yarn did some funky change in color order in the middle of the skein, but I like them anyway.

Went to get the mail today, and my found that my new Knit Picks yarn came in. That means that as soon as the Masters Paper draft is in, I can start a new project. I’m going to make Clessidra socks with it! To that effect, I’ve joined in the Clessidra knit-a-long blog over at http://clessidrakal.blogspot.com/index.html.