Well, the weather has changed. It's dark, damp, cool and rainy out today and it looks like it's going to continue that way all day! (My knees let me know before I even got up...they sure are tuned into the weather...not in a good way either!!!)
Yesterday my son made me my birthday dinner...surf and turf with an emphasis on surf. Lobster, scallops, shrimp and crab imperial along with steak bites and potatoes done two ways! Very tasty!
So, I finished my first crocheted pumpkin using the half double crochet stitch and I like the way it turned out. Here's the crocheted piece...
It measured about three times wider than each row. First, using a yarn needle, I stitched the sides together...
Using the same needle, I stitched around one open side and pulled it closed tightly securing with a knot and burying the extra yarn inside. After that I began filling the pumpkin with polyfil...
I stuffed quite full, then using the yarn needle threaded with the yarn, I stitched around the open side pulling it closed and adding more fill to make sure the pumpkin was stuffed well. After closing and knotting the opening, I pushed the needle to the center of the bottom of the pumpkin, secured a stitch and pushed the needle back to the top, again securing. I repeated this a couple times before knotting and burying the yarn inside.
Some folks like to add more yarn on the outside to emphasis the sections but I preferred to flatten the pumpkin and let the stitch illustrate the ridges...
You can add a short stick or a crocheted stem or even a stick of cinnamon to finish. I'm going to make two more pumpkins and stack them on top of each other.
Here's yesterday's harvest of tomatoes...
The tomatoes are really producing and there's lots of large ones starting to turn. Not sure what I'm going to do with them but I will probably cook them down and then freeze the results.
Today I plan on working in the garden between showers, start another pumpkin and perhaps work on the latest journal. I also have a zoom meeting this afternoon and the best leftovers for dinner!!
Four more days left in August and then fall begins in earnest, at least for me. Looking at the trees across the street, I can see that a few of them are starting to turn. I picked up a book at The Vermont Country Store on the best drives in the northeast for leaf-peeking...I plan on exploring a few of them when color is at it's best. And that includes a trip to Simon Pearce's Restaurant in Quechee, Vermont for their wonderful fall soup!
Enjoy these last few days of summer...
Talk with you tomorrow...