Four hours work for these lovely jars of canned plums, salsa and Autumn jam. Another neighbor had the girls come over to pickup a huge bag, about 10 pounds worth, of excellent plums. After grocery shopping this morning, 7 am mind you, I hurried home to pick the tomatoes and peppers that were ripe in the garden to also make the salsa. With some of the left over plums, it was a perfect opportunity to make the Autumn jam with apples from my small orchard and pears, with a hint of ginger and cinnamon thrown in. Nummy. Only two pints of the jam, I’ll just use in between the other jams I have made this summer.
Calling all knitters of the world, help! Dig down deep and toss me some of your ideas for this Hand Painted Coleburg Yarn of 50/50 merino wool & kid mohair. It’s a lovely varigated in lighter greens that I got as my gift from Knitting Retreat last year. It has approx. 153 yards of softness. We are suppose to create something with it and bring it to this years retreat.
I’m ready for a nap, how about you? Though I won’t take one, it’ll throw me off for my normal night time sleep if I do.
What weight is the yarn? I look at it and I think lace scarf.
Stephanie…it’s a worsted weight. It is so wonderfully soft, but with only so much yardage, I just can’t decide on my own.
Hmmm, a lace scarf. Sounds like a good idea.
I say warm and woolly short house socks! 50 % mohair is great for holding up wear!
Great looking yarn by the way.
I just love all the canning!
Thanks for telling me how to make pear jam. I made a very small batch (only 3 half pints) last week and gave two to the kids at school and ours is almost all gone already. It is sooo good. Next year I have to make a big batch to last the winter. Now how do you make your Autumn jam?
I really like your Fair Isle sweater so far.
Might not get a chance in the morning so …. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I hope it’s a glorious day and you get lots of great presents. And the kids don’t give you ANY grief!
As for the yarn … it says lace cuffs to me. There is great little pattern — Magknits I think. Or maybe it’s a Knitty one. They’re ruffle-y to stick out of the cuffs of a jacket.
Happy Birthday, hope it was good! Yummy canned goods! Either a scarf or maybe cuffs/wristwarmers?
Your beautiful jars make me wish I had canned this year. I still have salsa and piccadilli from last year so I went the frozen tomato sauce and soup route this year. Still, nothing is quite as pretty as a batch of freshly boiled mason jars.
Canning is such a cozy home activity. I hope to put up some apple butter later.
For the yarn, it would be enough to clothe Kate the Kat at Knitty.com. You would need a skein for Kate’s face.
Hi Sherrill,
Wow you’ve had a busy weekend. The jam and sala look pretty yummy:)
For the 1 skein you could do the dream swatch from Knit and Tonic: http://www.knitandtonic.typepad.com/dreamswatchwrap.pdf
Who knows it may even match your YA socks. A very special Traveller is on his way to pay you a visit:)
Have a good week.. Your YA Sock Pal:)
Awww, your canned goodies look so absolutely yummy! As for the yarn, how about using it for one of the amazing patterns for wristwarmers or fingerless gloves that are out there in the net?