{"id":646,"date":"2012-04-17T00:18:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2012-04-17T00:18:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:18:24","slug":"slightly-delayed-making-monday-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Slightly Delayed Making Monday Post…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished knitting the case for my HTC One X and, although I now I have a hard plastic protective case, I’m still very attached to its knitted counterpart so it’ll be staying in there for the time being. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Knitted HTC One X Sock<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ll post the pattern later in the week.<\/p>\n

This weekend Doug<\/a> and I went to the Southcoast Slam<\/a>. It’s an annual pinball show and, as its name suggests, it’s located on the South Coast of England. Now, occasionally at shows I’ve seen a couple of the same types of machines sat next to each other but I’d never seen a wall of Black Knight 2000 before. It was an interesting spectacle to see six of them in a row.<\/p>\n

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Row of Black Knight 2000 at the Southcoast Slam 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

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I was hoping to knit some more rows of She’s Electric during the traveling back and forth to the show but I realised that I’d misread the instructions yet again and so I ripped out the colour work for probably the fourth time. Now that I look at it I can’t believe I misread it, it seems so obvious! Basically I hadn’t released that although the first and last three stitches are always knit in the main colour, that doesn’t mean that the rest of the stitches are always knit in the corresponding colour. The yarns alternate over the different rows. That’s why my colourwork looked so weird and messy. It wasn’t actually colourwork! I still hope to finish it soon, I worry about getting so tired of revisiting it that it’ll end up percolating in a bag somewhere in my craftroom. I’ll have to try and make a special effort to ensure that doesn’t happen. But I can’t guarantee it….<\/p>\n

Plus I’m starting a new sewing project this week. I worked the Easter bank holidays so I have some time off and I’ve decided to spend it making a dress. This dress in fact.<\/p>\n

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New Look 6723<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ll be making it in view D in the polka dot and cherries print I bought in the Flo-Jo Boutique<\/p>\n

I met for lunch with the lovely Amy<\/a> today and she brought me some wild garlic. I was so excited to have some to try because I’ve yet to spot some “in the wild”. But I hope to be able to spot it next year. The flowers are edible too.<\/p>\n

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"Wild? I was livid!"<\/p><\/div>\n

Brownie points if you can correctly name where the reference in quotes comes from.<\/p>\n

I used some of the wild garlic tonight in a pasta sauce – dead easy, heated some regular garlic puree in olive oil with chopped wild garlic leaves, added a tin of chopped tomatoes with salt, pepper and a bit of oregano and then simmered to reduce it. Although the leaves smell strongly of garlic, the actual flavour is more delicate than the garlic bulbs I’m used to. I still have lots left and think I’ll use some in a risotto tomorrow although I’m also tempted to make pesto from it too. Thanks, Amy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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