IHSW for November (and food... mostly food)

This weekend I participated in the International Hermit and Stitch weekend, which is hosted by Joysze.

I didn't get as much stitching done this weekend as I would like (alternately, I also got more stitching done than I would have liked) because I spent most of the weekend cooking (well, there were a few hours of assassinating on the PS3 Saturday night).

On Saturday, friends of mine were throwing their annual bacon party, so, of course, I spent all day cooking for that.

Two trays of bacon in the oven already, most of the other ingredients were in the fridge

I did bacon cinnamon rolls (for fun)

And then I did these candied bacon wrapped pineapples with sriracha honey sauce, which were so terribly good I ate a ton of them before the party.   The sauce really makes it.

And then I won prizes for those bacon wrapped pineapples.

This is the second time I've taken home this trophy! woot!
Also, check out the pretty tile!  I need to post about the kitchen update

On Sunday, I opted to make golabkis, which take a good bit of time, but are so freakin' delicious.  I also made them with a mushroom sauce because I just don't like tomato sauces.

My little pigeons

The most delicious mushroom sauce, like, ever.

I also made cottage cheese pumpkin bars (no pictures) that I like to eat for breakfast, so I could get back into my yoga routine (go to yoga at 5:45AM, ugh, since the classes are usually so crowded in the evenings), and this morning I woke up, got everything packed together, went to yoga, had a great class, had enough time after the morning shower to swing by the store to get a new umbrella (I've been super distressed that my awesome umbrella seems to have gone on walkabout, and it's going to rain all day) and get to the bus on time only to discover that I left all of my food (lunch and breakfast) at home.  Oops.

Anyway, back to the stitching.

Once upon a time (years and years ago), I was regular participant in a number of round robins - all from the TWRR Yuku board.  I participated in at least 5 that I can think of (3 UFO-RRs, a WeeBeastie RR, a TW Band RR).   Since coming back to stitching, I've been kind of saddened by the lack of activity in various BBs and especially on the RoundRobin board, but! several of my friends and I recently decided to create our own little private RR.  

So Saturday I finally got around to basting/gridding my material to send out.   I thought (seriously, and obviously, not just on Saturday) about starting it off with my band, but I didn't want to influence what other people would put on there too much.  I want it to be a free-form, not-too-many-rules RR for my end product.

So I finally gridded.   The fabric is probably entirely too long, but I wanted to make sure that people had as much space as possible, whether it's a few stitches tall or 2 inches tall.  There are 11 people in this RR, which makes the group a bit bigger than normal, and we have a shorter stitching window than I've worked with before (which shouldn't be a problem).

That's a fat half of fabric right there - Platinum Lugana - my favorite

After that, because the kreiniks I ordered still have not arrived (seriously, I ordered from two sources ages ago, and still, nothing), I couldn't work on my Beastie-RR UFO, so I went ahead and decided to stitch on Ferret Knot, only to have had to frog everything I stitched.  Twice.   I spent probably 5 hours on it, and have not a stitch to show, which was really frustrating, so I decided to do some impromptu gridding on it to help keep me straight next time.

So I tried to stitch, I almost finished Assassin's Creed (the first one, I just started the series), I watched several movies, and I made a tonne of food, so it was a good, busy weekend, just not the most stitching-productive one ;)