Pink Saturday

Beverly hosts Pink Saturday.  If you go here, you can see lots of pinks from bloggers who participate.

Here is my contribution, a double pink hollyhock:

Now that fall is here, the hollyhocks are a little worse for wear.  Those dang leaf hoppers have been getting to the leaves.  Believe it or not, just two days ago I found a leaf hopper and took his picture before he flew off to the cottonwood tree, never to be seen again.  This is his 15 minutes of fame:

Iced Sweater

Here is the very chunky, heavy sweater just finished from the sweater design named ICED by Carol Feller.  The pattern is free and can be found here.

It took 8 skeins of chunky weight Lamb's Pride wool (85% wool, 15% mohair).  And after all that knitting and pattern revision, I ended up with only 27 inches of leftover yarn.  That is right living.

See that yarn?  That is the 27 inch left-over tail end from the 8th skein.  (Mug by Jenny the Potter.)

It was a bit large, so I threw it into the dryer while it was still damp from water blocking.  That helped it come down a bit to size, but the front of the sweater has an uneven edge, likely because I have no chest!

Revision details can be found on Ravelry here.  I would knit this up again sometime, but it will be a long sometime before I do it again due to the bulkiness of the project.

NPR Provides Great Fall Recipes

A link for summer garden bounty use:... click here

(all pictures by Susan Chang for NPR)

The garden season will end soon enough, in a fanfare of potatoes and squashes and pumpkins and gourds. As the weather gets colder, they get starchier and more like breads themselves, so it takes less and less effort — a little egg and sugar to sweeten and bind them — to get them to shine in a loaf pan.

Quick Zucchini, Carrot and Pumpkin Breads all found here.