What a weekend! Here is a picture of what we did on Sunday. That is daughter #2 on Spencer. We were at a schooling event.

While we were there, I took pictures of my latest ‘quickie’. woo-hoo! you guys have filthy minds!!

We made a day trip to PA on Monday for an large family party. These are pictures of a berry hat I knit for my cousin’s new baby. Production on The-Tied-Up-Tee was halted while I cranked it out.
It is a Fiber Trends Pattern called A Berry Cute Hat. I used yarn from my stash – I believe it is a wool/acrylic blend. I also have their pumpkin hat pattern which I would have preferred to make, but had no orange in the stashaster. I am planning on making a few more of these – it occurs to me that it would be a good thing to have a few baby gifts at the ready rather than engaging in last minute, frantic knitting. The hat was met with rave reviews.
The recipient slept through the whole party, so I didn’t take any pics of her wearing it — it is much too big at the moment anyway.

The Boar and I travelled by train for the day. We did not want to battle traffic. It was a great way to travel and added to the adventure. We were however, lucky to get seats on the trip home. The train was packed and a couple of people were standing the whole way from Philadelphia to Penn Station. If I was one of them, I would not be happy. I got a lot of knitting done. Finished sleeve #1 of the T-U-T and am 1/3 of the way up sleeve #2. Then onto blocking and seaming!

The party that we traveled for was in honor of cousin’s 40th wedding anniversary. They are actually my 1st cousins-once-removed/second cousins — whatever — I never did have a grasp on the difference. They are my mother’s first cousins. It was terrific to see everyone. Despite the crappy weather, all were having fun!

We are taking a Memorial Day trip and rather than battle the New York traffic, we will be riding the rails! Wonder if I should start humming any of these…..

We are taking a Memorial Day trip and rather than battle the New York traffic, we will be riding the rails! Wonder if I should start humming any of these…..

On May 20th I posted a recipe for rhubarb pie — I neglected to put in the amount of rhubarb. Thanks to Melissa and Chelsea for the heads up.
Check out Michelle at The Dye Pot on May 26th. She posted a picture of the pie, but it looks like she did some sort of crumb topping with a dusting of confectioner’s sugar – yum!

Farm Journal’s Complete Pie Cookbook

Honeyed Rhubarb Pie

Pastry for 2-crust pie
4 cups rhubarb sliced into &#189″ pieces
1 ¼ c. sugar
6 tbsp. flour
¼ salt
2 tsp. grated lemon peel
1/3 c. strained honey
4 to 5 drops red food color
2 tbsp. butter

Combine rhubarb, sugar, flour, salt and lemon peel; mix well. Blend in honey and food color. Let stand several minutes.

Spoon rhubarb mixture into pastry lined 9″ pie pan; dot with butter. Adjust top crust and flute edges; cut vents. (For sparkling top, brush with milk and sprinkle with sugar.)

Bake in hot oven (400 °) 50 to 60 minutes.

ps. a note to all my regular readers; I will try not to use the word rhubarb again – at least until next spring.