Making an appetizer

Making appetizers is not one of my strengths.

Tonight I have to take finger-food (not sweet) to a meeting. Thankfully, I remembered that I have this old (1958) Good Housekeeping cookbook that I got from my mom.

I read through it and immediately discarded the recipes which included chicken livers or anchovies. While I would eat those, I'm relatively certain that few other ladies at the meeting would.

This recipe with chicken, bacon, and apples sounded like a good autumn recipe, and since it's basically chicken salad, I think it will be appropriate "lady-food."

Lots of babies; lots of bibs

Two more women had church recently had their babies, and two more are due in the next few weeks. I'm running behind on baby gifts. For awhile I was crocheting lots of blankets and baby bibs, then I had a surplus so I quit. Now I realize that there is no such thing as a surplus of baby gift items. There will always be more babies. Time to get busy again.

Now Marley has a new cap

Last night I knit Marley's cap with the leftover yarn from David's and Sam's caps. I have to finish some baby gifts, but I'd like to knit more caps soon. There's nothing so gratifying as starting and finishing a project in one night!

Caps for my boys

On Friday night I knit a cap for David. On Saturday night I knit a cap for Sam. With Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick and US 15 dpn's, it doesn't take very long.

Tonight I hope to knit one for Marley so she won't have to borrow from her brothers.

Swatching as I go

I still have 3.35 ounces of fiber to spin, ply, and skein, but I decided to go ahead and start the Morning Surf Scarf from Spin-Off Magazine. I don't think I'm going to have enough homespun yarn to make a scarf the length I'd like, so I may look for more fiber at the Fall Fiber Festival, or I may end up using commercially produced yarn, or perhaps I'll knit a combination of the two in order to get the length I want.

Anticipation

At the end of the week I am heading to Virginia to see friends and to go to the Fall Fiber Festival held in Montpelier, Virginia on the grounds of the former home of James Madison. Of the three fiber events that I've attended, this might be my favorite. It's small, intimate, family-friendly, and the setting is lovely. The vendors are nice and they bring a good selection of wares to sell, and the food is delicious.

Want to join me?

Progression

Almost a year has passed since I bought 16 ounces of this fiber to spin. I want to get it all spun, plied, washed, and made into skeins soon so I can start knitting a scarf or shawl with it.