The last stop on our week-long, whirlwind spring break road trip through New England was Vermont. We were only there for 1 night, and we stopped in Montpelier before heading up to Stowe to see how the other half lives.
Tag: Yarn
October is my favorite month of the year, hands down. And even though it’s still a week away, I thought it would be a great time to start planning! Nothing beats NYC in October, but if you live in the tri-state area here are some ideas to pack your weekends all over the place:
1. October 2nd, 2010.
Valley Shepherd Creamery Cheese Festival.
Last year I went to Valley Shepherd Creamery in Long Valley, NJ for their annual Sheep Shearing Festival (where I shot this photo of the sheep pre-haircut). We had a great time, but the thing that stuck with the most was the phenomenal cheese and butter made on site and sold in their country store. It is to die for, honestly.
So imagine how excited I was when my friend Meredith and I saw their stall at the Rutgers Farmers Market and heard about the Autumn Leaves Cheese Festival this fall. Wine/beer and cheese tastings, cheesewich and panini stations, and their incredible gelato? And it’s just $15 to get in? I will be there with bells on.
Another great thing to come out of Adam’s 24 in 24 marathon is that I finished crocheting this fall scarf while he played away. Two months later and it’s done. I started this over the summer from a project in Stitch ‘n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker.
I’m extremely excited about this.
My friend Laura Ann sent me the link for this 4-day event, taking place over Columbus Day Weekend (October 9-12). I’m absolutely participating, and I’m hoping that I’ll hit all 14 participating stores and compete in the scavenger hunt. But I can’t really start the crawl until Friday evening at the earliest, so I have a feeling some other lucky knitter will finish it first.
The first thing I wanted to do when I got home from vacation was clean my studio. I had fabric scraps everywhere, buckets in the middle of the floor, books and magazines on every surface. I still had a bag with the Christmas cards we received last year sitting in the middle of the room. Now that it’s all tidy and everything is back (mostly) where it belongs, I thought I’d post some photos of the Orange Room.
I’m still working on my crocheted scarf. I watched some YouTube videos and actually thought I was getting the hang of it. I wasn’t decreasing all the time, things were going smoothly. Then I started adding in other colors and the decreasing began again. So now I have to go back and analyze some more, I thought I had the hang of it but I was wrong. Someday!
I’ve been knitting for about 6 years, sewing in some way as an adult for about 2 and a half, crafting most of my life. But only recently did I take up crochet. I took a lesson a few weeks back at Wooly Monmouth in Red Bank, but I needed to finish The Neverending Scarf and put crochet on the back burner. This weekend I have a bad cold and wanted activities that were productive but involved staying on the couch. Crochet time!
Last Saturday I had a crochet lesson at Wooly Monmouth in Red Bank, NJ. I started a new scarf during the lesson to practice my newfound crochet knowledge, but before I could really dive into yet another scarf I had some unfinished business at home.