Wednesday WIPs: Attachments

 

The sleeves did indeed get attached on The Mister's Riddari. The colorwork yoke is underway and now I remember why I called this my #&%! Riddari over on Ravelry. I hated doing the 3 colors in a row thing then and I hate doing it now. I'm trying to psych myself out by doing only one row at a time while putting something interesting on TV and just resigning myself to get as much done on it as I feel like in one sitting. When I get to the rows where there are only 2 colors it feels like a holiday. 

I'm attaching a thumb onto the first of the Holt mittens. The thing on the left is the sad beginning of the Glennis Cowl. I've had to rip it back several times because as simple as it is, I still managed to goof it up. Twice. I think I've got it now for at least the next 6 inches. 

I've got new socks on the go. Regia on top, Static on the bottom. I started the Static ages ago but have ignored them for months. They are in the travel bag now so they get worked on every day that we go out. 

In bread news, I made a boule. It's not Betty. I wanted to practice all the sourdough techniques like the pinching, stretching and folding before I sacrificed Betty so I made just a regular yeast dough. It didn't go so well. The recipe I used didn't have enough water to make a pliable enough dough so I had to do a lot of hydrating to get it to do anything remotely sourdough like. I thought the pitiful little dough ball was hopeless but when I woke up and took it out of the fridge yesterday morning it had really grown.

I practiced cutting with my new lame and cooking in a cast iron Dutch oven. What I learned is that I need to take the bread out of the Dutch oven for the final 20 minute bake because.........

....I don't have a real oven. I only have this little toaster oven thing that I keep in the big oven and the heating elements on the top are too close to the bread when the lid is off of the Dutch oven. You might recall that this is my new fancy European style range from my big kitchen re-do and that we fought Frigidaire for over a year to get the oven to work. They played us out until the warranty expired and now I'm stuck with a useless oven. It's not really a very big deal since it's just the two of us. The little thing works just fine and probably saves electricity. I just have to remember to get Betty out before she gets too crispy. 

It was a decent loaf considering all the misery I put that poor dough through for 24 hours. It made some nice avocado toast.