Grace’s new hat

Grace’s new hat

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I saw a really cute pageboy cap on the Children’s Place website that I thought I could try to make. It was knitted and cabled and it would have looked so cute on Grace. I asked around to see if anyone had a pattern similar and my friend Robin found one pretty close. I just need to get the right sized needles and the right kind of yarn.

In the meantime I found a pattern for a crocheted cap on Etsy (thnkdfrent) and purchased that. I can crochet way faster than I can knit. I whipped this up in a couple of hours using Peaches & Cream 100% cotton yarn. The yarn was only $1.47 a ball and it didn’t even use a whole ball. I think I’m going to go back and get more colors and make more for fall/winter. I’m going to embellish it somehow with either a flower or a button or something.

I also have the pattern for adult sizes so I may make more to donate to charity (chemo caps or something).

That’s my nephew Soren’s hand trying to rip the hat off her head. The blond hair in the front is Jacob.

Canning, Canning, and More Canning

But first, the pictures I promised…

Here’s the Blueberry Pudding Cake that I made.  It was awesome…

Thai Hot and Sweet Dipping Sauce…

Dilled Green Beans…

Today, I went to the Tecumseh’s farmer’s market and got some tomatoes, onions, green peppers (can you see where this is headed?), and some red potatoes.  On the way to get groceries, we stopped at Skow’s Berry Farm and got more tomatoes, more green peppers, peaches, plums, apples, and cukes.

I made zesty salsa, dill pickles, and plum jam.

I also cooked up more plum pulp and froze it to make another batch of jam.  I ran out of pectin and jars so I couldn’t do another batch today.  So I got 6 pints of salsa, 9 pints of pickles, and 11 half pints of jam.  It was busy, but everything turned out so well and it was so worth it to know where our food came from and exactly what was in it.