Sometimes you go to the local farmers market and are overcome with the need to bring home a giant cottage loaf, and fill it full of onions and mushrooms, and tomatoes, and swiss cheese and bake it in the oven for half an hour, and then marvel at the huge sandwich you have created, and then manage to eat half said sandwich over the two remaining meals of the day.

And by you I mean Will (who ate his half in one sitting, because he has hollow legs – and a flat stomach. 😉

And by you I also mean me (who ate it over two meals, and thought it was amazing.)

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Hopefully the shop will open in the next 24 hours. However in the meantime I’m going to go buy a new housephone, since you have to punch ours to have any hope of hearing the person at the other end, and then I’m dropping in to Felix‘s Craftanoons so that I can baby the autumn cold that is threatening to take me over, and finish the first of my minimalist cardie sleeves.

Damson Purl Beret bythe lovely people at Purl.

My Ravelry Post: here
Yarn: Blue Sky Alpacas Alpaca Silk – about 100g
Needles: 2.5mm for the band, and 2.75mm for everything else.
Pattern: Purl Beret – which can be found here. (Bonus – it’s FREE. 🙂
Conclusion: I ended up re-knitting this because – in trying to adjust for my large head – I ended up making something too big even for me, the first time around. So a frogged and started again, which really wasn’t a hardship given that a) this yarn is soft, and smooth and wonderful to knit with, and b) it’s such a quick pattern that it only took a couple of days to knit up.

I’m really pleased with it. 🙂

Lengthways Garter Stitch Scarf by Me

My Ravelry Post: here
Yarn: Mobair by Victoria Smedley baby alpaca and silk – about 200g
Needles: 4mm
Pattern: With something this simple it became all about the details. So: Long tail cast on, 380st. Garter back and forth till it was as wide as I wanted it, and I was running out of yarn, and then a sewn cast off, so that the cast on and cast off edges were identical. (As previously posted, the cast off took FOREVER but looks fabulous.)

Conclusion: After blocking this scarf ended up about 12″ longer than I was expecting. This is no bad thing, since I love to wrap my scarves around and around and around. HOWEVER it has forced me to start washing my swatches before I measure them, if I’m all chance of getting an accurate gauge, which was something I really did need to learn.

But yeah – I’m loving what finally feels like an indian summer after months of rain, and grey skies, but once it’s gets cooler this is going to be the staple scarf of the year I think.