RED SCARF AND PIZZA

Here's another worthy knitting project for you knitters and crocheters, called the Red Scarf Project.  Information can be found here: http://fc2success.org/what-we-do/programs/red-scarf-project/  The project is part of Foster Care for Success - America's College Fund for Foster Youth.  These scarves are given to foster students who are entering college.  They can be any shade of red, 6 - 8 inches wide and about 60 inches long.  They need to be sent between September 1 and December 5 of each year along with notes of encouragement to these students.  This scarf is one of my favorite to make because I use a variety of stitches.  It's definitely not a boring scarf to make. 

The stitch patterns are from Knit & Purl - 250 stitches to knit edited by Erika Knight.  Because of copyrite  laws I can't reproduce the stitch instructions, but I can tell you which ones I used. Yarn used is Vanna's Choice "Brick" - size 9 needles.  I cast on 34 stitches and kept a two or three garter stitch selvage.  I knit four rows of garter stitch and then began the sections.  Section 1: Stockinette Stitch Triangles; Sect. 2: Double Fleck Stitch; Sect. 3: Tile Stitch; Sect. 4: Stockinette Stitch Check; Sect. 5: Divided Boxes; Sect. 6: Check Stitch; Sect. 7: Pennant Stitch; Sect. 8: Check Pattern; Sect. 9 Pique Triangles.  Each Section is about 6 1/2 inches long.  I love the variety of texture that can be make with the simple knit and purl stitches. 

I also had a first this week and that was the first time for making homemade pizza.  Usually I just call Papa Murphy's and get take home.  But now that I have time, I went for it.  The pizza was easy to make and tasted good or better the PM's.  I made the dough in my bread machine, cooked up the sauce, and already had pineapple, little ham slices, and Italian shredded cheese on hand.  I made two pizzas.  The recipes can be found here: http://www.food.com/recipe/pizza-hut-style-pizza-dough-bread-machine-51209 for the dough; and here for the sauce:

http://www.food.com/recipe/ultimate-pizza-sauce-114392

Or you can go to http://www.food.com/ and browse the pizza recipes. Yum!

Now that I have finished the pink bear and the red scarf, I'm going to start working on my mailbox knit bomb.  I'll let you see how it turns out.  Knit on!