crochet and cooking
On Saturday some friends came over and we made Mediterranean food, I made the stuffed grape leaves, inspired by this FFV recipe, but I also made some with ground beef. The beef grape leaves stuck together better and reheated better. I think this might be because I used brown rice. Next time I’m going to try it with white rice and see if it’s not a little stickier. Overall a very delicious dinner!
Sunday, my friend Dione came over and we taught each other some crafts. I showed her how to knit (cast-on and knit stitch only, we’ll save purl stitch and cast-off for next time) and she showed me how to do the chain stitch and single crochet. It’s interesting how different the two seem to me. I assumed that since I’ve been knitting for a while, crocheting would be sort of intuitive. But it doesn’t seem that way at all.
I’m learning to crochet so I can crochet some models of the hyperbolic plane; as I first read of in Cabinet. I also feel that crochet lends itself to creating cute and ornamental things more than knitting, which seems more suited toward the practical.
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cool, i’m also planning to make some hyperbolic planes/sea slugs, etc. but i have to re-learn crochet. i’d hoped to make one for tad (i tried/wrote about it the other day), but i don’t know if it will happen… good luck to you!