I am pretty excited to feel the ever so slight chill in the air in the mornings. I have a drawer full of handknit socks ready to go and several hats that I can’t wait to put back in to service. It does seem a bit early to me though that everywhere you turn there is pumpkin flavored everything. I am not a fan of the pumpkin flavor – maybe the occasional beer – and I do not seek it out. I’ll stick with crisp, in-season apples and cider!
My current WIPs are hats – one for me for the eat.sleep.knit Yarnathon Q3 challenge (orange), one for PatPatsHats (teal), and one for my husband for Loopy Academy (green-brown). So far, as you can see I have the brims for the first two. Though the yarn, Juniper Moon Farm Yearling, may be orange-ish, the color is Chile Pepper. The pattern is the Sunflower Tam and I am hoping when it is done I won’t look like a pumpkin head wearing it. I am lazily shopping for a new winter coat, my current one is black and I don’t want to be too Halloweeny. The Barley hat has been on my mind for a long while. I have several skeins of yarn in stash that I think could work really well with this pattern, so this first one is done in an acrylic as a chemo cap to see how I like it and how I do on gauge. I have only popped the yarn for Dan’s Dembow hat, into a project bag (it’s a Stitched by JessaLu Princess Bride / As You Wish box bag!) but I expect to cast that on by the weekend.
Finally I have turned the heels on my Wonderfully Super socks. These socks are my go-to project to keep on hand for when the kids are playing outside, we are waiting for the bus or for those few minutes before I pick up my son from preschool. On loan from the library and currently what I’m reading are Michael Pollan’s newest Cooked and The Girls. So far I am finding Cooked really interesting, but there is an air of something I can’t quite put my finger on that makes me not like the book. It’s still early on and I will keep going with it. Reading Pollan always gives a lot of food for thought, pun intended. The Girls I am sort of meh about. Not loving it, not hating it, and the story of conjoined twins is interesting.
I’m with you on the pumpkin thing – I just don’t care for it.
Your super socks look like a lot of fun!
I’m glad I’m not the only one!
I have a like/hate relationship with Mr. Pollan. He’s one of many people who attribute gluten problems to mass hysteria, and it’s all in our heads. It’s really soured my view of him. While I’m part of the “snooty” liberal intellectual crowd…I find his tone really off-putting a lot of the time. I dunno.