I can’t believe summer is unofficially over! Where did the time go? As I type this, I’m watching the Pats opening game (Monday Night Football) and I can’t believe football season has rolled around again.

I didn’t get much done over the summer. At least, it doesn’t seem like I got much done! I did a lot of baking, because it made me happy. I forgot how much I enjoyed baking. Of course, I had to share the stuff I baked to get it out of my house! The popovers were an experience and surprisingly easy.

Aren’t they beautiful? Then there was the Spice Blueberry Whoopie Pies from Good Housekeeping. They were quite delicious and a great way to use up the blueberries I had in the fridge!

Vanilla Malt Cookies from Martha Stewart

Did I mention I had blueberries hanging around? Good old fashioned blueberry muffins.

The central air came in quite handy! :)

And what about knitting? Well, I finally finished LAST March’s Rockin’ Sock Club Sock. I’m not in love with it. In fact, I pretty much hated knitting it, but I’ve received a lot of compliments on it.

I’m sure I MUST have finished other stuff, but I can’t remember what I did now. You think with Ravelry I would keep better track….no…

Now, I’m working on a crochet project for the store, a pair of socks (because my head thinks everyone is getting socks for Christmas because I HAVE GOT to get rid of some of my yarn….I’m pretty sure my head is crazy), and I signed up for an online class with Stephanie Japel. I love her patterns – top down raglans. I realized that I have knit two patterns from her book Fitted Knits…unheard of for me! :) Anyway, she created a Fitted Raglan Shawl and it teaching an online class through ning.com. I’m a fan of shawls, and I’ve got yarn to use up, so I signed up for the class. I’m already “behind” because I’m still working on Week 1 stuff, but hopefully I can catch up! This is my problem…I take on too many projects at once and then I can’t finish any of them. If I actually want to get projects finished by Christmas, I’m going to have to make a list/schedule and STICK TO IT. Here is my progress so far on the shawl. I found Great Adirondack Lolita in Copper in my stash and I’m pretty pleased with the results so far.