Pumpkin Sunrise

On Saturday, my daughter and I went to the PA Endless Mountain Fiber Festival .  It was a day filled with lots of beautiful yarns and fibers.  Here are some photos of the day: The weather was absolutely perfect.  I even wore a wool scarf as evidence that I am a fellow knitter without being overly hot.  Many of the people there were wearing their handmade knitted garments.  This year's festival was definitely bigger than last year and hopefully it will just continue to grow with more vendors participating. One can only hope!

Fall is here or nearly here. I have noticed that the leaves have started to change and are dropping from the trees.  I have a fair amount of acorns on the driveway. The nights are cooler and it is getting dark a little earlier every night.  Today it is very cool outside and overcast.  I have a wool sweater on and I am not hot. I would be totally agreeable to keeping the cool temperatures with maybe a frost.  I look forward to wearing scarves and mittens. I think in the next week I will be baking a Pumpkin Spice Cake.  That always reminds me of fall. I have started another project this week.  I am making the Cerus Scarf  with eight different left over sock yarns.  The linen stitch does a wonderful job showcasing the many colors.  I am using greens, browns, blues, grays and a bit of purple. Here is an updated picture of my tweed cardigan.  I finished the body shaping decreasing and have just started the increasing.  This is I think my third or fourth top down construction of a sweat

My husband just returned from a trip to Shanghai.  He brought back some fabulous yarn and some souvenirs. It appears that the wool is fingering weight and it is extremely soft.  I am thinking, of course, it will be a cardigan. I have been working on my Tweed Cardigan, the pattern is Gooseberry   from Interweave Knits, Weekend 2009 issue.  So far the pattern has been easy to follow.  I really like how the alpaca yarn is showcased by the simplicity of the sweater design. The alpaca yarn I bought at PA Endless Mountain Fiber Festival , the vendor's name is Times Remembered.  She has such beautiful natural alpaca hanks in sport weight and in worsted weight.  Next weekend will be my third year attending and I will be buying more alpaca if they are still there.

I am always amazed at what blocking will do to lace projects.  This is the Traveling Woman Shawl .  The pattern was wonderful to follow and very well written.  I chose to do five repeats of Chart A, which is a variation on the Horseshoe pattern.  I also did a different bind off edge to make the edge much more elastic.  I am quite pleased with the overall design.  The fingering superwash wool is made by Aisling Yarns .  The wool is such a pleasure to work with!  The yarn is super soft and the colors are always amazing.  As much as I love this shawl, I am thinking that this will be a birthday or Christmas gift for a close family member.

Just creating a name for this blog took quite some time.  All that thinking was time not knitting.  I have finished one project this past week and I just cannot wait to wear it.  If only the weather would cooperate with me. I think I only have a month or two more before Autumn finally arrives.