cosmicpluto knits!

time for some destashing!

I’m feeling the crushing weight of TOO MUCH STUFF syndrome, and it’s time to do something about it.

I’ve got yarns and fabrics both up on my Flickr and Ravelry – take a gander, will ya?

If you’re interested in anything, email me at cosmicpluto at cosmicpluto.com or PM me on Ravelry. Everything must go, so make me an offer!

take it off my hands, part V – handspun edition

It’s also the final edition, at least for now! I put a couple more things up on my destash page, including a bunch of handspun skeins. All things must go! Make me an offer!

I don’t have much to show with the knitting (although that’s coming up shortly! just need some photos), but I do have cinnamon rolls!

Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting
adapted from Bon Appetit magazine

This is a lovely, easy dough recipe. It’s been while since I last made a yeasted dough (probably not since last summer?) but it rose well and really turned out great. Best eaten warm!

Dough
1 cup milk
3 tbsp butter
1 envelope instant (rapid-rise) yeast – 8g
3 1/2 cups flour, divided
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp salt

Filling
1/4 cup butter, room temperature
3/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
2 tbsp cinnamon

Frosting
125 g cream cheese, room temperature
1/4 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup icing (powdered) sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Making the Dough:
Heat 3 tbsp butter and milk together in microwave (or on the stove) until the butter is melted and the milk is warm, about 60 seconds (longer if your microwave is old like mine). Place in bowl of stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment and add yeast, sugar, salt, and 1 cup flour. Mix on low speed for 3 minutes, scraping down sides.

Add 2 1/2 cups flour and mix until the dough forms a ball and comes away from the side of the bowl. Turn out onto a floured surface and knead, adding more flour if sticky, for 8-10 minutes until smooth and elastic. Place in lightly oiled bowl and cover with kitchen towel. Let rise for 2 hours.

Once the dough has doubled, turn out onto a floured surface and roll out to a rectangle approximately 15 x 11 inches.

Dot surface with 1/4 cup softened butter, then spread to cover dough, leaving a 1/2 inch border. Mix together brown sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle evenly over butter.

Starting with one long edge, roll up the dough, pinching ends to close. Slice the roll in half, then each half into about 9 equal pieces (about 1/2″ or a little wider).

Lightly oil two 9″ square pans and place 9 rolls in each pan. Cover pans and let rise for 45 minutes. Preheat oven to 375 F. Once the rolls have doubled in size, bake for 20 minutes or until the tops are golden. Turn the rolls out onto a rack and let cool 10 minutes before frosting.

Make the Frosting:
Mix cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and vanilla in stand mixer until smooth. Spread over warm rolls.

Devour.

take it off my hands, part IV – the yarn one

Holy comments, Batman! Awesome. I knew that’d bring out the lurkers

So, without further ado, the winners:

Twinkle’s Weekend Knits – Jeanine
Classic Knits at Home – Michelle

Winners have been emailed. I felt bad I couldn’t give books to everyone!

So up next… a rather large yarn destash. Prices are in USD or CDN (they’re close enough anyway) and include shipping to Canada and the US. If you’re international, let me know and I’ll amend the price. Payment by Paypal, balance transfer or credit cards – and please don’t send money until I’ve confirmed. Please, help me make room!

Visit my destashing page!

Finally, since every blog entry needs a photo (well, not really, but whatever), my finished Manos Silk cardigan body. Any ideas for names?

This took a bit under four skeins, so I think I’m on track to use just 7 skeins for the whole sweater!

P.S. Insidious spammers have somehow hacked in and may be putting in horrible filthy links at the bottom of my posts, as read in blog readers (but not on the blog page itself, weirdly). Any ideas on how to stop them? Please let me know if you see anything off! I’ve deleted some stuff already, and it doesn’t show up in the RSS feed anymore, but Bloglines may not have updated yet. Argh.

destashing, blue yarn edition

Thanks everyone for the congratulations! It’s been a pretty crazy week – I’m looking forward to staying home tomorrow and relaxing (and watching House on DVD!). I was planning to go buy more plants but I think I’m going to try and put that off until Monday. Unfortunately, my zucchini plants are being eaten quite badly by striped cucumber beetles – that’s something I really need to take care of now!

Meanwhile, as a broke new graduate, care to take some yarn off my hands? Email me at cosmicpluto at gmail dot com if you’re interested in anything.

Elann Highland Chunky

20 skeins Elann Peruvian Highland Chunky – five balls have been knit, ripped and rewound into the big ball and small ball you see in the photo.

Colour: 638 (I think it was Indigo Heather, a very deep blue)
100% Highland Wool
76 yards/50 g
15-16 sts = 4″ on 6.0 mm

$45 USD includes shipping to US and Canada Taken!

6 skeins Briggs and Little Regal

Colour: 50; Midnight Blue
100% Pure Wool
4 oz/113g, 272 yards/248m
20 sts = 4″ (10cm) on 4.5 mm needles

$25 USD includes shipping to US and Canada Taken!

There’s also my destashing page at flickr, which I’m putting on “make me an offer” – really (not including shipping).

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