Artisan Breads in Five Minutes a Day

Knitting progress has been slow lately, and secret (some mitts for this year's Spiders swap!), so here are some photos of another craft I have been trying my hand at in recent weeks: artisan breadmaking.

These efforts started with the much-touted Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, whose authors maintain an informative blog where basically any question you might have has already been answered. It *is* a lot of white bread, so once I get comfortable with the basic methods in the first book, I plan to try their second book of whole-grain breads, Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day.

I've been keeping notes over at Flickr. Can't imagine they are all that informative, since the chemistry of bread is all quite new to me. But I'm definitely enjoying baking my own, so to speak!

Good Old Fashioned Yarn Pron

Just checking in with a squishy photo of my favorite impractical yarn, Morehouse Merino 3-Strand. Handwash. Pilly as can be. But I'm under its spell nonetheless. Today cast on with this for a Baby Tomten Jacket (Ravelry) for some expecting friends. One forgets how fast garter stitch moves on US 7s. Joy!

Jenny's Shooting Mitts

We're back! I'm slowly posting photos from our honeymoon (amazing! want another honeymoon!) on Flickr, and will likely recap the greatest hits here at some point, but for the moment here is a superskimpy FO post:

Pattern: Susie's Reading Mitts (free download from Dancing Ewe Yarns) (Raveled)
Yarn: Rowan Wool Cotton, 2 balls
Needles: US 4 DPNs

Notes: A thank-you gift to our lovely and talented wedding photographer, Ms. Jenny Jimenez, for those chilly evenings shooting in the Pacific Northwest! If you like, you can check out Jenny's beautiful post on our wedding, where she has posted a lot of our favorites from the day. Le sigh - want to go back to wedding day, want to go back to honeymoon!