Craftiness

It turns out that several of my ELC colleagues live in nearby apartment complexes. We live in Sinpaş and friends live in Park Evleri, Medyakent, and Acarlar (in the lower left of the map). A couple of weekends 

have been spent doing crafty projects. The first time we did a lot of gourmet canning thanks to a friend of a friend who owns a home-canning business and graciously taught us several of her recipes. This was the result:

Left to right: Olive tapenade, lemon squash, peach mustard, roasted red pepper and walnut pesto

I got to take home a jar of each! I have to say the pesto vanished almost immediately. They are all delicious!

Last week, when it was especially cold and rainy, I wished I had a bigger winter scarf (the one I brought was knitted from leftover yarn and didn't quite make a normal sized scarf), so I asked a couple friends if they knew who like to knit. Of course, they do! On Saturday, one of them took me and another new coworker to the knitting shops in Sarıyer, where I bought some nice yarn and needles to start a new scarf. Here is an early view:

I've added a few more rows since then!