…but I love this sweater!
Pattern: Hey Teach
Yarn: Rowan All Seasons Cotton
Needles: Knit picks Options, Size 8
There are a lot of things that I love about this pattern, but there were a few things that just about made me crazy.
If you are thinking about making this sweater and have access to Ravelry, go take a look at Susan's notes first. Pretty much what bugged her bugged me, especially not having a good selvage edge on the lace to mattress stitch the side seams….but it's a free pattern and over all a wonderful one to knit!
Ashley and I had fun with these pictures. As you can see, my sunflowers are dressed in their Sunday best. 🙂
I love this picture of Ash pretending to take a shower underneath the flower….silly grrl!
Speaking of teachers…….Ash has decided to pursue a career in Education….so where as I'm no "teach", someday soon, Ashley will be! Yay Ash!
The days this week have just been outstanding! Warm sunny days, followed by cool, dry evenings. Perfection!
Garden gossip….
Tonight we are expecting our first hard frost, so we covered up the herbs and veggies I wanted to save, along with my side flower gardens. The covered beds look like little ghosts and goblins and scared the crap out of Maggie when she just went out…snicker.
I am hoping that some of you more experienced gardeners out there can help me figure something out.
If you look at this bowl of tomatoes, you can see that on most of the tomatoes, where the stem is, the tomato is quite yellowish orange instead of red.
The tomatoes came off of the vines themselves and I have let them sit on the counter for more than a week, with no change in the color, even though the red part of the tomato seems very ripe. What's up with this?
Because I literally have scads of them in the kitchen, and not wanting them to be feasting material for the fruit flies that seem to appear from nowhere, I sliced off the seemingly unripe portion, tossed them in olive oil, salt and pepper and gave them a good roasting. I'm not a real lover of tomatoes, so I have no clue if they are good or bad. Ash says the ripe part tastes good, so I am guessing that these roasted tomatoes that I froze will be ok….at least I hope that they will.
I still have scads more however and they all look the same on the top. I have never grown Juliet's before, but the pictures I have seen, don't look like mine 😦
As frustrated as I am with the tomatoes….I am thrilled with the carrots. Nothing beats a sweet, fresh, garden carrot.
Especially when you are a Woolen Rabbit!
The Woolen Rabbit 
Hey teach looks great among the sunflowers – so whimsical!
A frost already?! Where did the summer go?
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Your “Hey Teach” looks wonderful on you! Great job! I have no answer for the tomatoes. Maybe it’s just the variety? I’ve had other tomatoes that are red and yellow “on purpose”, like Mr. Stripey.
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WOW -sweater looks great KIM – what better place to show it off than in your beautiful sunflower garden – YOU ARE A SUNFLOWER TOO- great to see you are getting a spot of this lovely weather too – same for us here in mississauga ont
pat
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The sweater looks great on you!
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Love, love, LOVE the sweater. You look adorable in it!
ACK! I never connected the tomatoes and the frost! I read this post (late) and headed right out in the dark to harvest some of what was out there. The things we do.
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So there ‘IS’ a diva in you somewhere after all…I knew it…Dig through the yummy granola and there it is! I knew there had to something other than stubborness, that I got from you! Seriously though, another set of beautiful snapshots!
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you look fabulous in your new Hey Teach sweater! what a beautiful pattern (and a great FO !!)
Ashley is a hoot under that sunflower. I jnew exactly what she was up to! (giggles) Our sunflowers here were on-existent. not enough hot sun. Yours are great.
Don’t know about your tomatoes, but the sliced photos look grand .
keep warm.
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Your sweater is awesome! I want to make one, now. There’s just so much to knit! Your sunflowers steal the show, however!
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Fabulous sweater – you look wonderful! I’d just ignore that unripe part on the tomatoes but Norma will probably know best.
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Hey Kim you look fabulous in Hey Teach!! Enjoy it!
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Beautiful cardigan!(and fun photoshoot!) Kim – some of my tomatoes do the same thing and this is all I could find…..
Green/yellow shoulders develop on ripening fruit, possibly due to high temperatures. Chlorophyll in this area is slow to break down and results in a patch that remains green or turns yellow but not red. This problem may affect the entire shoulder or only a small, irregular patch. Shade the plant and take other precautions to reduce the fruit’s exposure to the sun.
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Sometimes that just happens to tomatoes. Have observed it down here as well. There is nothing wrong with them…just as good to eat!! The sweater looks good! Hope you survived the frost, saw on the news that one was predicted.
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The few tomatoes I had this year ripened the same way. I cut around it when I put them up. It seemed not as ripe. Your garden looks so cheerful with all the sunflowers. Hope you were able to avoid the freeze.
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That sweater looks fabulous on you! What a lovely project. Looks like it’s also perfect for the early fall/late summer weather you are having.
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Great post! Love the sweater — it looks awesome on you!
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Lovely sweater! You look just gorgeous out amidst the sunflowers. I have that pattern in my queue, so will make note of your/Susan’s comments on the pattern.
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I love the sweater! It looks like a perfect fit.
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Your sweater is great! Ohh… I am so jealous of your sunflowers.
I am so ready for the fall to come, how about you?
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Love your new sweater! And those carrots – yum!
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Love your new sweater! The photos are awesome too. Good for Ash!
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Hey teach looks great on you. We even choose similar colours.
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Great sweater. Love all the sunflowers.
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I am tempted by this sweater! I had a suprise when I followed the link – our Ravelry knitting group (At home in Harrogate) is doing a Susan Lawrence KAL! Your sunflowers are great & your tomatoes so much better than my poor green, blighted efforts! At least our sunflowers were good too!
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Your sweater turned out wonderfully! I love that colour and I think that sweater is perfect for this time of year, when it’s too warm for wool sweaters but the chill in the air still makes knitters ache to begin wearing handknits again. Those sunflowers provide a glorious setting for showing it off. We are experiencing the same weather you are, and it’s perfect for enjoying the garden and its fruits.
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The sweater came out well, and Ashley’s pose is indeed, priceless.
Frost?? Yikes! We got down to 41 degrees last night at 3:30am. There was even a hummer here yesterday, sipping.
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THe sweater, the sunflowers, the tomato harvest. all in all a wonderful beautiful post. THe sweater is wonderful on you. What a great job you did. Congrats and thanks for the tips you shared.
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It’s great, Kim! Congratulations on an awesome sweater project! I LOVE that photo of the Sunflower Shower!
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Beautiful sweater on you! As for the tomatoes, I’m down in the southern US and we get that, too. But I simply throw them in a pot of boiling water to scald the skin off, swoop them out, peel the loosened skin, stick in another pot with my favorite herbs and spices to make sauces and let it all simmer down into several variations on marinara I use as a base for the winter cooking. I then pour the sauce into ice cube trays, freeze, pop out into baggies or other freezer storage containers and use as needed. They’ll last the winter. I use the tomatoes that ripen all over to roast and make canned salsas and canned tomatoes out of.
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