endless gift knitting

knit picks shine

I realized that I haven't been posting about knitting recently. That's because I'm working on a gift project and it's taking me much longer than anticipated. I don't want to post too many pictures of it since the recipient reads my blogs.

Here's a peek, sort of.

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growing kombucha

I started a culture of Kombucha two days ago. I brewed up about a gallon of white tea, added 1 cup of Rapadura (raw sugar) and let it cool to room temperature. Then I added a half a bottle of store-bought Kombucha from the fridge. When I was done with all that, it looked like a big jar of brown.

Kombucha: Day 1

Today Anabel gave me a baby Kombucha culture that she had been saving for me. I told her that I didn't think my brew was doing anything yet but when I came home from knitting and lifted the paper towel to add the baby I saw a little spot of white growing on the top of the liquid and there was the distinct smell of Kombucha already. I dumped in her baby and a couple of hours later I wanted to take another picture and noticed many more spots!

Kombucha: Day 3

It looks like I'm making progress already. I better start saving plastic water bottles to put it in when it's ready to drink.

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