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Malabrigo Twist

 

This stuff is luscious. 

That is all.

The Last Blaze of Autumn

 
I took the long drive to Kentucky the weekend before last to visit my mom. 

She and I drove around quite a bit looking at the gorgeous gingko trees in Lexington.

 
 

And other gorgeous fall colors:

 

In full Kentucky mode, I had a "Hot Brown" for lunch and bought an enormous tin of "Blue Mondays."  I'm totally sure I'll share them. 

I also visited a very cute shop called "ReBelle" and succumbed to the temptations of Malabrigo (the colors--OMG!).  I made my escape with only four skeins, but, yeesh, I wanted to carry out an armful.

In my downtime, I finished my Sockhead Hat.  I wasn't feeling a great deal of love for this project while I was knitting it, but I really like the finished product. 

The front:

 

And the back:

 

We took a quick trip to the beach this past weekend.

I took a little knitting along, including this:

It's a Sockhead Hat using Vesper Sock Yarn in a color called "Autumn Sky".  This is one of those great knitting-in-a-car projects.  And on the beach and in coffee shops.  I'm using it to practice my continental knitting, which I can't quite do because the last two fingers on my left hand are weak due to an old injury.  Still, I keep trying to adapt.

I've also been working on "Favorite Cardigan" from Wendy Bernard's "Custom Knits".   I had planned to do this last fall/winter when I was so enamored with madelinetosh yarns (not that I'm no longer enamored!).  I'm using what used to be called "Tosh Worsted" in "Gilded". 

Oh, and my big white cowl is done!  It's still a little damp, so the photo shoot will have to wait.

Now I'm off to pick up my car.  I noticed a grinding noise when the brake was applied firmly, but it seemed to be working fine.  I finally took it in last night and the mechanic showed me how the pads were gone and the rotors were completely shredded.  Um, we drove this to the beach.  And lived!  Seriously, shouldn't there be some sort of indicator light when the brakes are almost completely shot?  Ah, lessons learned.

Ooh, I'm still loving Hipstamatic.

 
 

Mmmmmaine....

I didn't get around to posting about our trip to Maine (and New Hampshire and Vermont--oh, and Salem, MA and Providence, RI, too!).  It was all wonderful.  We're already plotting a return trip.   I definately prefer New England to the Mid-Atlantic where I live now.  And Maine!  Maine is the best of all.  We stuck mostly to the coastal towns, but the photo above, taken October 9th, is from a lake a bit inland that we passed on our way to the White Mountains of New Hampshire.  The water was really that blue.

Earlier that week, in Portland, I picked up a skein of Quince & Co. "Puffin" and quickly knitted cowl:

 
 
It's Cullin from the Quince & Co. website.   

 
 
Of course, it's been far too warm for anything like that around here. 

There was a little frost on my car windows this morning, so maybe soon...

 

The Full Knitted Panoply

Behold the coordinating, but not-too-matchy-matchy wool accessories I've knitted for my sweetie recently.  

In sum, they are:

Dashing mitts, knitted with Cascade Ecological Wool:

Turn a Square hat:

and Noro Striped Scarf (which I finished awhile back) :

The alternating stripes really bring out the colors of the Noro Silk Garden (#047).

He needs a nice pullover, doesn't he?  Maybe this?