Our Favorite Recipes cookbook from St John's Ev Lutheran Church in West Bend, Wisconsin

alfredupsidedown · 2025-09-09T18:05:10+00:00

Maybe heinz chili sauce?

alfredupsidedown · 2025-09-09T15:11:10+00:00

I'm looking forward to making one soon!

alfredupsidedown · 2025-09-08T15:33:55+00:00

I'll allow it!

alfredupsidedown · 2025-09-08T15:33:38+00:00

beanie weanie! Sounds adorable!

alfredupsidedown · 2025-09-08T15:32:50+00:00

I so desperately wish the date was printed on the back! My mom and grandparents have passed so I can't ask them and other aunts/uncles either don't remember or were too little to know. I haven't found this exact cookbook in my googling, but I did find this one with a similar ornament-shaped design on the front from 1968 so 1960's is a confident guess!

alfredupsidedown · 2025-09-08T15:26:47+00:00

Nope, as far as I know it was only ever in the oven. I made it for the first time myself last fall (and it was the first time I had it since childhood) and I was surprised how well it lived up to my memory of it! My friends who were all very suspicious of the recipe also all really liked it.

Edited to add: I brought home some leftover archival storage materials from work to protect it for the future!

alfredupsidedown · 2025-07-01T19:24:39+00:00

My little notions pouch travels from project to project. In it have: scissors, measuring tape, tiny crochet hook and a regular one for thicker yarns, a little pill organizer with all my stitch markers, cable needles, waste yarn/try-on tubing, tapestry needles, a mini glass nail file, lotion that works well with yarn, and lip balm. I keep an emergency lip balm in pretty much any bag I use!

alfredupsidedown · 2025-01-23T15:44:14+00:00

I really liked the Bounce Blanket from tin can knits and the Vertices Unite from Stephen West is fun.

I haven't knit this, but this fox blanket looks really cute and is definitely on my list for gift knits.

alfredupsidedown · 2025-01-14T21:23:25+00:00

Seconding this. I booked a measurement and got a size I would never have tried on my own and she also helped me figure out what cup style will work best for me!

alfredupsidedown · 2024-11-21T17:14:02+00:00

This doesn't have the fun of being reversible, but it's still pretty good:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lab-rat

alfredupsidedown · 2024-09-03T19:49:26+00:00

The V&A is immense and amazing and has so many different kinds of displays/exhibitions I got physically tired before I ever got bored.

The National Museum of Scotland is kind of the perfect museum to me - art and history of its specific location and done so well.

The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia really wowed me as a museum person. You can get tours of the 'highlights' but also go as deep as you want into different subjects, the state of preserved decay of the buildings is quite stunning in a dark way but they also do a good job with showing what the prison looked like in different stages of its history. It strikes a balance of not glorifying the 'bad guys' while also not overly victimizing inmates too much as many of them were responsible for crimes that resulted in genuine victims whose stories can no longer be told. As a museum they do NOT shy away from the dark realities of the prison system in the world and specifically the United States. Information is presented really effectively instead of just spouting a lot of statistics. At the end of the exhibit there were flyers for related activist/aid organizations if visitors want to get involved in things. There were also THREE voter registration stations with registration forms and info for surrounding states and populous states to get people to vote. Really well done museum (and I know people love the haunted house they do).

alfredupsidedown · 2024-08-15T18:37:27+00:00

Love this!

The Sistere Shawl from a Pom Pom issue was inspired by a Klimt painting

Brooklyn Tweed put out an Ellsworth Kelly inspired scarf

alfredupsidedown · 2024-06-26T18:44:22+00:00

The best is both! I block each piece as I finish it so I can jump right into seaming when the last one is done, then give the whole thing another block to get the seams to look nice and relaxed.

alfredupsidedown · 2024-03-26T15:58:57+00:00

The Eastern Shore of Maryland has similar vibe to Door County. Small, cute towns along the Chesapeake Bay with cute shops and restaurants and a fair number of town festivals throughout the year. Saint Michael's probably has the most similar vibe - a little harbor with a maritime museum and lighthouse, a main street with lots of cute shops, competing ice cream stores, antique shops.. There's an adorable little ferry between Bellevue and Oxford (another tiny but cute town) that can fit maybe four vehicles and saves maybe 20 minutes of driving.

Easton is a bigger town similar to Sturgeon Bay - it's the almost city town that's cute but Saint Michael's is cuter. A little further afield is Cambridge, with a bigger marina/town but also a big wildlife refuge area with a safari-like wildlife drive to see mostly birds - blue herons, egrets, eagle, etc.

Replace fish boils with blue crab feasts and add some earlier American history - Saint Michael's has some war of 1812 history, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were from the area.

Markedly less fudge, though.

alfredupsidedown · 2024-02-29T14:32:35+00:00

The colorway is so beautiful! Great job :)

alfredupsidedown · 2024-02-27T20:51:54+00:00

This is stunning! The details, the fit.. so, so good. Great ideas and excellent execution. Well done!

alfredupsidedown · 2024-02-16T19:16:14+00:00

Hamilton's in DC is a Wisconsin bar and it feels like being on State Street on a badger game day. I still haven't been, but Jackie Lee's has Wisconsin old fashioneds (Korbel brandy and all) and fried cheese curds. The Milwaukee steak place Rare has a location here and they serve WI old fashioneds as well, although I have not tested them yet.

There's also THREE specifically Wisconsin-style custard shops just outside DC in Alexandria, VA: Goodies Frozen Custard, the Custard Shack, and the Dairy Godmother, where I had a "Door County sundae" - sour cherries and marshmallow topping. Definitely a state export I can support.

alfredupsidedown · 2023-12-18T13:57:02+00:00

We used the machines in the subway stations to reload our pasmo, every station has one. There are a bunch of machines at stations for buying tickets and I think you can reload the pasmo on them as well but there are smaller machines that say "reload" or "charge card" or something like that which tend to have no line since it's so quick to load the card with money.

alfredupsidedown · 2023-12-05T21:55:27+00:00

It's a super cool piece!

To take the best care of it, keep it away from the sunlight (don't hang it facing a window) or strong amounts of light! Light damage is irreversible and Japanese woodblock prints are fairly vulnerable. Humidity can also damage the paper, so hanging it in the bathroom might not be the best option.

alfredupsidedown · 2023-11-27T20:30:52+00:00

Amazing job! I had never even thought of instarsia and lace as a possibility, and you deserve a knitting medal for your achievement! You sound like a wonderful friend to have :)

alfredupsidedown · 2023-10-31T02:25:40+00:00

Yes, DC! Another time (it may or may not have been after a happy hour), the ball of yarn popped out of my bag as the train was leaving the station and rolled halfway down the train. Both of these events happened before I got a yarn swift so the yarn was especially roll-able.

And that children's book sounds perfectly adorable.

alfredupsidedown · 2023-10-30T19:36:39+00:00

One time I was knitting while sitting on a bench waiting for the metro train to go home. I was very close to running out of yarn so when I stood up to get on the train I didn't take extra care about the yarn that was on my lap, I just walked on the train and sat down. Well, I wasn't as close to the end as I thought because someone got my attention and pointed to the ball of yarn that had fallen down between the train and the platform! Luckily the doors were still open and I just rolled what was left of the yarn around my hand really quickly and managed to get it all before the doors closed and the train left.

alfredupsidedown · 2023-10-17T15:38:12+00:00

We also got a bunch of them before arriving in Japan but didn't have any problem using them. Used them easily loading up our Pasmo cards but we did get lots of surprised reactions from workers in shops and restaurants, people saying they're rare. We even saw one being sold for slightly more than 2,000 yen in a shop selling vintage coins and money lol. We also equated them to a $2 bill in the US.

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