It is Sunday, and I hope this day finds all of you lovelies resting up from the past week as well as resting up for the week to come. I am not going to start off right away posting about the dull, mundane, chores and tasks I've been doing (that can come later in this post), but I'm gonna go straight to the heart of the fun stuff, "the dessert" so to speak. Here is a glimpse of my 2nd Elise Shawl. I just love the colors, don't you? The first one is still not blocked. I have the 3rd one to make yet and hoping to have that one started by this evening. When I get all 3 completed I will give you the low-down on what I did and the details of where you can find the pattern. In the meantime, if you can't wait, go to my sidebar and click on Mereknits. She has all kinds of info related to this shawl. She also has beautiful photos of the ones she has made from this pattern and the blocked results. You can also find the link to the pattern. I know she'd love it if you stopped by to visit with her.
Sundays don't usually find me doing much of anything. It has become my day of rest, but I stretched it a bit and threw together an apple pie. Look at it, is it not the silliest looking pie crust you have ever seen, for me too. I had about a dozen apples picked from my trees the other day, sitting on the kitchen counter for a good 5 days....gnats! Yep, gnats, this time of year brings them inside and I needed to do something with those apples. I whipped up some apple pie filling yesterday morning and put it in the fridge. Then this morning I got my old stand by deep dish frozen crusts out of the deep freezer and you see it, my masterpiece. It just so happened that I didn't have enough apples to mound them up so that the top crust would stay up. So, I smashed it down and looks like a beret of sorts, lol. I had already crimped the 2 shells together around the edge.
Then I put the pie on a pizza pan and into my preheated oven. The pan catches anything that bakes over the edge of the pie. Believe me, it sure saves a lot of time with oven clean up. I don't know who out there likes the job of cleaning the oven, I sure don't. I have a self cleaning one, but you still have to wipe it out a bit and clean around the edges of the door. It is so much easier to wash a pizza pan than be on your hands and knees praying that you didn't have to clean out a dirty oven :)
Now for the boring stuff, cause I'm sure you are as tired of reading about it as I am about doing it. I took what looked like this and made it tidier and transformed it into this.........
A first for me, never seen a pie crust guard before. I have a washable lining in the bottom of my oven which helps. My most unfavourite job, oven cleaning aaarrgh.
ReplyDeleteThe shawl is a lovely colour, I need to make a shawl!
Carol xx
I am loving your second Elise shawl, I hope everyone decides to make one, they are easy and oh so beautiful when they are finished. We use a pie crust guard all the time, they really work and allow the center of the crust to become nice and brown without burning the edges. I bet you house smelled divine and I bet that apple pie tasted very good. Can't wait for the big reveal!!!!!
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Meredith
Your shawl looks lovely. I too have never seen a pie crust guard before. I don't mind if the edges are a bit dark :-) Enjoy the rest of your weekend. x
ReplyDeleteI absolutely LOVE the colors in that shawl! I want to find some Christmas colored yarn for a shawl like you and Mere are making. I am wearing my fall colored one now. But I don't want wool. I'm thinking alpaca/silk. I need a pie guard like that.. it was fun to see you post about that for me.. you're such a doll! Your wood pile looks awesome! You should hang a wreath on it. LOL! Have a super week and don't work too hard. ((hugs)), Teresa :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Susanne! I wasn't going to read blogs tonight, because I am so pooped. But I saw you posted, so I had to scoot over. Love the shawl. And I love the ones that Meredith makes too!!! I need to make one! Your wood looks so nice and neat stacked up! And that pie...oh my. How I want a bite!!! I am a gadget gal too. Love Pampered Chef too!! That stick bug is cool. As long as he is outside!!!
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xo Kris
I, too, love those colors in your shawl! That Meredith! She's a shawl master! And as I read this, it's very early Monday morning...but not too early for me to be salivating over that apple pie! Yummmmmm! It looks beautiful to me! Wood pile...I have one of those I still need to tame in the next couple if weeks...before we get the finger numbing cold! I dread that job. Have a good week! Hugs!!!
ReplyDeleteYour shawl is so beautiful!! And that pie looks delicious, I'm sure I could smell apple pie when I looked at your photos. I've never seen a pie crust guard, how interesting. It's great your wood pile is sorted out and tidy.
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