Mother Nature is making herself very well known so far this fall. She must have been having a rotten day on Wednesday night because she really let us have it with thunder, lightning, and huge hail stones. The storm was exciting to watch and confusing to the animals, especially Hunter, who thought the sky was raining golf balls. Pictures farther in this blog.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so I've been working on some pink yarn, scarves for the Christmas sale. I try to have a few pink things to make money for cancer research.
This scarf is made with two strands of a pink variegated (dark to light) boucle yarn I found at the thrift shop. It was wound into a huge ball which I rewound into two balls for easier knitting. It came out soft and has a nice drape. I used size 10 needles and my favorite rib pattern - cast on an uneven number of stitches and then knit 2, purl 1 every row.
I still had boucle yarn left after the first scarf, so I used one strand of pink worsted yarn and one strand of the boucle to get a bulkier scarf, still soft and in the same rib pattern. For those people who are willing to wear pink, these scarves are for them. They're soft and warm.
I'm also knitting gift bags for the sale. This pattern can be found at: http://www.double-ewe-yarn.com/ You need basic knitting skills of yarn overs and cables. It's knit flat then sides are sewn together. I used knitting worsted yarn and size 7 needles as recommended in the pattern, but larger or smaller bags could be made depending on the yarn and needles size. This is an easy pattern with impressive results. Double Ewe is a knitting shop web site with some good free patterns.
Now the hail storm. The weather bureau posted warnings on TV about an impending storm for north Butte County (us) and south Tehama County which is Corning and Red Bluff and they weren't kidding. Although it didn't last much more than an hour, it did quite a bit of damage: collapsed awnings, flooded showroom floors, and ruined outdoor plants. Our plastic corrugated patio cover has over a dozen holes in it. Our plants took a beating, but look like they will come back now that the weather is warm and sunny again. Rice fields and nut orchards are suffering. This is harvest time. It's difficult to harvest rice when the plants are flattened on the muddy ground. Anyway, here's our back yard.
You can get a sense of the size of the hail in Master Gardener D's hand.
Halloween can't be too far off when the pumpkins in the garden look like this. I love the colors. This is Mother Nature at her best.
Linus can come to our garden and wait for the Great Pumpkin.
The Eagles Christmas Bazaar is next month, so I'm getting my projects labeled and ready to go. Just finished a hat and started another gift bag, red and white, Merry Christmas. See you and them in the next blog. Knit and crochet to your heart's desire.
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