More herringbone

New blogger fears

What should I write about?
Why would anyone - anyone - be interested?
What if I don't write well?

Buttonhole

This was a case of lots of ideas, but miserable choice of fabric.



The long "S" shape is buttonhole over padding. The circle and paisley shapes below it were intended to have the centers cut out. However, after I cut the first one, I realized that this wasn't going to work well.

The paisley shape on the far right has thread woven through the buttonhole, using the spokes as the weft. The circle next to it is a buttonhole cup.

Finally, at the bottom I pulled a couple of threads, and worked a few buttonhole bars in white.

I stopped work on this. This was badly planned, and absolutely the wrong fabric for cutwork. Poor planning on my part.

Herringbone

The stitch for the first week of Take a Stitch Tuesday was herringbone.





I used a basic herringbone and whipped herringbone for this felt flower.

Malfoof

For my first try at getting out of my cooking rut, I made malfoof - vegetarian stuffed cabbage with chickpeas and rice. The recipe comes from A Fistful of Lentils, by Jennifer Abadi. I didn't take a picture of the dish.

The recipe serves 6. I cut the recipe in half (I was making this for two of us: how much stuffed cabbage did we want to eat?) and so I bought a small cabbage.

Lesson learned: small cabbages have small leaves.

The smaller the leaf, the less there is to roll up. The dish came out semi-lasagna-like - more of a layered stuffing and cabbage, rather than actual rolls. However, the taste wasn't bad.

Modest goals

I have two modest - very modest - goals for the next few months. One is to get out of my boring cooking routine, and try some new things. The other is to participate in Sharon B's Take a Stitch Tuesday

Let's see what happens....