Bread and Knitting - two of the staples of life!

I made my usual bread recipe today - a quadruple quantity - and K and S helped me measure and mix. After the initial kneading, I divided it up, giving them a quarter each to shape. My two quarters became the above two loaves of bread....the rest now looks like this....


You could call this environmentally friendly playdough - no plastics offgassing here! This is a selection of bread "rolls" that you will never find at a commercial bakery! There are bagels, a candy cane, a snowman, knots, several unusual and unidentifiable shapes and, the favourite, dog poo! I'm sure they'll taste great.


Here's my finished shawl made from three skeins of James C Brett Marble. I just kept going until it was nearly all used up. Now I'd like to find a shawl pin to go with it, either new or thrifted, and send it to my mum. The next decision will be whether to send it airmail or surface - one week and lots of money, six weeks and a lot less money! She won't need it yet, but I get nervous when the things that I mail are tied up in the system for a long time.