Fall is here

Part of why I have been such a blog slacker lately is because I get guilt for neglecting it.  I feel like I neglected my blog for so long that my next post better be awesome.  But I don't have anything awesome to post about so I don't post anything.  But then I feel guilty for not posting.  So then I feel like my next post needs to be awesome..... and it goes on and on.

So I'm giving up on trying to come up with witty, well-written, clever entries about the happenings of a knitting cupcaker and her family.  Instead, I think we're going to try the "short and sweet" approach.

So this is what I've got for today as a recap for October:

I made this yarn:

It's half fleece artist BFL and half purple corriedale.  In the end, it give me 98 g (about 64 yards) of bulky weight yarn.  I want to do mittens but I don't know if I have enough.

I made most of a sweater:

It's a modified version of Star-Cross'd Love.  Pattern was originally a size small, I'm making it a L/XL.  Looks good so far.  Need some sleeves and to add a bit of length to the collar.  If you're a Raveler, my pattern page lives here.

I dyed some new roving for my shop:

It's a new Cupcake Factory line called "Confection" and it lives here

I made these:

The little ones are chocolate cakes baked in Pampered Chef prep bowls.  The big ones is yellow cake w/ halloween sprinkles (funfetti-syle) and baked in a PC small batter bowl.  Little stems are mint candies.  Large stem is molded lime tootsie rolls.

I went here:

And did this:

Oh!  And because Melody asked so nice, here is a gratuitous dog picture: