Pumpkins in the Desert

We went on a field trip with the kids yesterday to a farm in another town that lets you pick your own pumpkins! (The kids were on their fall break this week.) For my desert dwelling children, this was an experience! To see all these pumpkins (and there are more fields than just this) growing in the desert is a sight! And I did do a little knitting in the car -- finished the headband (whew! finally) and worked on my Ski Lodge Scoop!

The Leaf Tee

Just to show you that pumpkins (at least the plants) will grow in the desert. I tried them in the container this year as I usually get someone (most likely with big ears and a fluffy cotton tail) who likes to munch on the baby sproutlings. If you look back here, you can compare the two pictures.

And, ta da...


...the leaf tee. You can obviously see where I ran out of the lighter color yarn and switched over to a slightly darker hue. I had to crochet around the bottom, I thought I wouldn't mind the curled edge just binding off did, but I didn't like it (and I am not the world's best crocheter by any rate). The idea I got from my Knitting in Plain English by Maggie Righetti. I love this book, it helped me so much when I re-taught myself how to knit when the Munchkin was born.

Pattern: leaf tee from Knitting School Dropout

Needles: US #6 (circular)

Yarn: top part, Brown Sheep Company (I have no idea the color number-- it's turquoise/teal); bottom part, Lion Brand Wool, color dark teal (#178).

Happy First Day of Autumn

My sincere pumpkin patch (note picture was taken the end of August).

The plants are bigger now, but no pumpkins yet.

Happy first day of autumn! It's almost been like fall here, of course the desert fall means mid to high eighties for temps during the day and lows in the high seventies, low sixties at night. But, alas, no trees that turn. No leaves that fall.

And no knitting getting done. Sigh... (a Charlie Brown moment)...