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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.

Well, the past three days I’ve been teaching myself to knit.

I am not a good teacher.

The first day I couldn’t get past the first row of stitches. The second day I finally made a few rows, but kept making my stitching to tight. And today I haven’t done anything yet, but hopefully I’ll actually be able to start on a scarf or something. I really wanna make wristlets, but I don’t think I can yet. I went to the library and got about ten books on knitting, so that should be able to help me. I’ve looked through them and so far they just make me want to make more things. Have a good one!