Hello again, old friend!

I'm talking about my camera, guys.  What else?  All kinds of fun and exciting projects while I was in NY (some of them actually blog-related), and, not being able to fit my digital camera in my carry-on or possessed of a smartphone, I couldn't just say, "Hold it right there while I get this shot!"  Pity.  The cranberry pie was fun to look at, and the mini molten chocolate cakes (see Beau McMillan's recipe from the Food Network website, courtesy of season 1 of "Worst Cooks in America") didn't fall apart too much as I was plating them.

But now that I'm back in St. Louis (*sigh*) and back to the up-before-dawn work week with no weekends (*double sigh*), I am able to pull up these pictures taken before my month of journaling/subwaying/pastrying/eating.

Behold Claudette.  That's what I'm calling this pattern because of the slight punkiness to it and the Monet's water lilies colorway.  Mentioned it earlier, probably around January when I was doing the wristwarmers.  The scarf is basically a garter stitch border around a 1x1 rib that collapses into what looks like double-thickness stockinette, finished off on the ends with a couple layers of chain-stitch (the only crochet stitch I'm actually capable of faking).  The wristwarmers are a 1x1 rib cuff and fingers with a stockinette body; you make the thumb gusset increases by making 1 stitch on each side of a designated central stitch and then making 1 stitch on either side of that section every other row (increase a total of 2 stitches every other row).

There.  Now it's time to make more things.  Dinner would be a start.