September is slipping into October — and I am slipping into my Autumn Knitting 🙂 Cozy and vibrant projects which suit our lovely Autumn days and our deepening Autumn evenings equally well.

I am always a fan of Hunter Hammersen’s designs — and immediately succumbed to her newest hat pattern “Hitherto” .  I had 2 hearty skeins of Blue Moon Fiber Arts’ “Cozy Fierce Scummy Girl” (Socks that Rock) on hand.  Perfect!  Especially as I want to knit the accompanying fingerless mitts pattern “Henceforth”.

Continuing in the Autumn leaf vein, I have finally begun the “Autumn Leaves Shawl” from Noro Silk Garden: The 20th Anniversary Collection.  These leaves are a blast to knit!  Just complicated enough to be entertaining — very satisfying to complete (the piece calls for 54 of them!).

My feet felt chilly one evening and so I dug around and found a nearly-complete pair of socks!  The first done and the 2nd past the heel 🙂 Did not do me any good that evening, of course — but fortunately I also have a basket of completed socks!  However, it was so heartening to find that I had a fresh pair so nearly finished that I hunted out a couple more skeins of Autumnal sock yarn!

And now for the Mystery.

I remembered that I had been working on a charming Halloween shawlette last year — and decided that, as October would be arriving tomorrow, I should probably dig it out and add it to the Autumn Knitting.  I had no trouble locating it and opened the bin to find….it was completely knit and bound off!  It required only a few yarn ends to be woven in and then to be blocked!  I was shocked.  It is not like me to pack away a completed project!  Crazy, right?  So I perused the bin’s contents — the accompanying clues, as it were.  A tiny ball of the main yarn and a large ball of the purple border yarn.  Hmmm.  And some notes.  The notes included instructions for fringe!  Ahhhhh, it all came thundering back to me!  I had knitted the border in an eyelet pattern with the intention of adding knotted fringe (the purple yarn, of course).  I suspect that I got to that point last year about the time Thanksgiving hit — hence the packing away of a nearly completed project. (Good thing I keep notes!)

All in all, a lot of delightful and seasonal knitting on the needles.  Just the way I like it!  

Wishing everyone a Boo-tiful October!