October with a bit of September Thrown In

For as busy as we have been lately, I am sitting here trying to come up with what we have actually been up to....

The boys have been keeping up with their baseball and little miss and I have been staying steady with our soccer practices and games.

There has been knitting and dyeing and weaving going on.  A few patterns have been added to my Ravelry pattern page and I have more in the works (that have sat languishing for quite some time now...).  The weather was starting to get cooler and I wanted to use some of the Au Naturel yarn and some of the Outlander skeins so I paired them with my armwarmer obsession.

This is the Sassenach Armwarmer Pattern using some of the dark brown Au Naturel in worsted weight.

Then I used a skein of Superwash Merino Aran in the Misty Hills colorway (Outlander Series) to create the Elder Mitts.

After that, I decided to knit up another pair of Sassenach Armwarmers using my Superwash Merino Worsted in the Standing Stones colorway from the Outlander Series.

These past few weeks have been absolutely insane (I started working FT hours at the school while our Office Manager is out on leave so I am basically Nurse and Office Manager all day M-F) so the productivity has been rather slow but in odd moments I managed to finally finish a pair of socks that I started last Spring. They weren't for anyone in particular when I started so they were going to end up in my sock drawer but as it turns out, one of my cousins has the same size feet as I do and she could definitely use a pair of handknit socks while she recovers from a recent accident so they are hers now :) Balance sock yarn, Gryffin Colorway from the Fantastical Creatures Part 1 Club.

In the beginning of October, little miss and I headed to the Farm Crawl.  Normally we go as a family but the boys had an all-day baseball camp to go to so the ladies ventured out on our own :)  We got there early but it was crazy with so many people (it was a really nice day out so there were more people out and about than in previous years).  We hit the pumpkin patch first and that was the only place I took any pictures - just too many people in the other places.

 

It was a nice little outing; we grabbed apples, apple butter, root beer, cinnamon rolls, and lots of pumpkins in varying sizes.

Last weekend, the hubby invited some boys that he coaches year-round down to the in-law's lake house. The weather cooperated for the most part and the kids got some fishing in, played ball, went for walks, wrestled around, climbed trees... There was a fire with smores and sky lanterns... We met many new insect/caterpillar friends (which were all let go), and enjoyed the changing seasons.

 

 I can't quite explain this one.

 

There was a really nice sunset.

Sunday was cooler and a bit misty but we went outside anyway. 

Believe it or not, there are actually more pictures on my Flickr page... It has been more than a month since my last post... I will be posting again shortly though because I will have more colorways to show - Fantastical Creatures Part 2 :D No idea what this weekend will hold other than a soccer game and a ball practice but hopefully, I will be able to get some things caught up at home! Wish me luck :)