Studio Marlowe

I don’t know about you, but I have been hearing a ton of buzz about green smoothies over the past year or so.  As always, I am reluctant to be at the cutting edge of any trend, so naturally I did not try them for a while.  However, I’ve recently been experimenting with incorporating more raw foods into my diet so I decided to give the green smoothing thing a try also:

The big summer fruit season is mostly over so I’ve been keeping mine pretty simple: soymilk, an apple, an orange, and a couple cups of raw kale or spinach.  Yes, it looks like space alien slime. But! It is really pretty delicious and the taste of greens is not overpowering or really strong at all.  I’ve been drinking these for breakfast for the past couple of weeks, sometimes with different fruits (last week I was lucky enough to score a pomegranate!).  With the soymilk, they have a nice balance of carbs and proteins and really keep me going until lunch.  As an added bonus, I’m noticing that my skin is much clearer and has a bit of a fresh looking glow to it that only seems to come when I’m loading up on the raw fruits and vegetables.

Well, clearly this posting every day for a month thing is going nowhere fast.  I’ve been busy!  But, some of that busy has been knitting, finally.

My current project is a pair of sample hats for a class I am teaching in December.  This weekend I took a train trip to San Francisco, so I had loads of time to work on them on the way up:

The pattern is one of my own, and you can find it in the 2009 Gifts issue of Interweave Knits.  For the class samples, I’m using the recommended yarn (Canopy fingering), but we’re mixing up the color schemes a bit. I am really loving working with this yarn so I think I’m going to have to find more reasons to use it in the future!

And of course, I eventually had to come back from San Francisco, which meant another round of knitting (unfortunately every time I thought to take a photo we were bumping like crazy, so apologies for the blurring):

Believe it or not, I have actually found some time to knit while working on the chaise lounge.  My main project at the moment is the navy wrap I mentioned a few posts back:

This is a very simple, top-down pattern with just a bit of cabled edging to add some visual interest.  Overall it’s been pretty simple and mindless knitting, which is about all I’ve been able to handle since I had such a huge other project ongoing.  I’m loving the way it’s coming out and the yarn is still incredibly soft–I can’t wait to finish and wear it!

Yesterday kicked off November, which, it is starting to seem, is National Everything Month.  I think NaNoWriMo was the starter, but I’m no way writing a novel anytime soon.  I thought I could, however, try to blog everyday.  Although I’m off to a flying start with having missed the 1st.  Ooops.  But, for the rest of the month, I am going to try to post on a daily basis, at least during the week.

And I’ll kick things off by announcing that I am finally FINISHED with my huge sewing project!  That’s right, I am now the proud owner of one espresso brown corduroy couch:

Final verdict: It is awesome and I love it and I’m not sure I’ll be doing it again anytime soon.

And now that’s finished I can get back to knitting!  More about that tomorrow.