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Forgive me mother for I have sinned. Its been five weeks since my last post.

You know its been a while since you blogged when you freakin' forget your user name AND password. Of course, these days my tiny little brain would forget my own name if it wasn't for on all of the bills from the holiday. There's too much stuff up in my poor head to organize it all properly - so below find random post-ettes regarding:

Adventures in crustacians:

Much as we try not be a cow town, Denver is not exactly known for fine seafood. But the Asian market here has the most beautiful live lobsters. Happy lobsters in tanks so big that you can smell them the minute you walk in the door. Even better, cheap lobsters. The recipe was ridiculously simple - boil water, add lobster. We washed them down with - what else- chilled champagne and realized that money really can buy happiness.

Breakfast (Lunch and Dinner) at Tiffany
I adore the Tiffany mittens featured in Knitty. Faced with a long holiday roadtrip I thought these would be the perfect project and I was right. But not the perfect project for me. I should have had more fair-isle experience before starting solo. Halfway through the first mitten, I've lost that lovin' feelin'. There's an impossible number of ends to weave in and the green and red yarns are slightly different gauges, so the fabric has some major puckering issues. I'm afraid these might sit in my stash for a few years until I have the heart to rip them out.

Felted slippers take 1,000,002:
I must be the last knitter in the world who hasn't tried to make a pair of the Fiber Trends Felted Clogs... but made a pair for my dad for Christmas. I gave them to him pre-felted and pretended to be shocked that they didn't fit. The gag lasted five whole minutes. Post felting, they were perfect. It understandable why this pattern is so popular! I love it, despite having to count like crazy, its a quick pattern and even when I did screw up a bit, felting hid all my sins.

W.I.P ing me into shape:

Tulips (work in progress) - after putting down Tulip to start on holiday knitting this fall I picked it back up. I remember fighting with it this fall, struggling to keep the stitches from falling off the needle and fighting boredom with all miles of micro-stockinette stitches. But now I found the rhythm and its going quickly. Cast on for the front left side yesterday and should finish tonight. Knitting a spring cardi is a great anticdote to all of the endless snow we've been getting.

Also bought some Fiesta Watermark in Santa Fe over Thanksgiving and its been tempting me ever since. What better to show off its charms than Clapotis? The yarn is much chunkier than the pattern gauge suggests, but the patten makes adaptations soo easy, its been a joy to knit.