TheEnabler and I replentished our squash stores this weekend. There were butternut squashes back in our grocery store and we pounced on a pumpkin we saw at one of the small grocers downtown with a feeling of relief. We’d come to the realization that we would only have one pies’ worth of pumpkin once the holidays were over since we have three now, but one will be for Thanksgiving and another for Christmas. And then how could we also make pumpkin bread or other pumpkin goodies? We are of the firm belief that while you can not have too much pumpkin, you can have too little.
Why should you care?
It means you get a sock artistically staged against squash instead of lying pathetically on a bare table top:
Yup! That’s the first sock done. I’ll cast on for the second later today.
I haven’t only been working on the socks.
As you can see, there’s more yarn on my spindle than several weeks ago. I’m slowly working my way through my angora. It’s really slippery fiber, and I’ve started spending time picking out the short cuts mixed in as they create critical failure points when I’m spinning along and suddenly my fiber goes from a couple inches to 3/8in.
I’ve also cast on for the Frozen Leaves shawl in an alpaca silk lace. One of the knitters at the knit meet-up I went to two weeks ago was selling off discontinued yarn at cost, and I couldn’t pass up 10euro alpaca/silk lace. The danger in yarn already caked up is it’s way to easy to decide that it needs to be used… afterall, I can’t hang it on my wall so it doesn’t do me any good sitting on my desk! I chose the pattern as something already in my library (it’s free), easy to memorize and which wouldn’t require agressive blocking for the pattern since neither silk nor alpaca has the memory of wool.