Look what was in a box of my memoribilia I recently came across. Not sure how old I would have been when I made this. And frankly, I don’t even remember it, lol. It looks like it is recycled cotton balls from pill jars glued onto a cardboard cutout. (weird — cotton balls for a wool sheep?) Just goes to show I’ve been a sheepy lover since a young age even though didn’t know much about fiber in those days.

Do you have childhood memorabilia that are harbingers of your passion for things fiber-y and crafty?

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I apologize to anyone here who got a slew of emails from my blog this afternoon. Here is what happened — I had an incorrect setting on my blog but it is ok now.

To correct this, I removed all email notifications on the blog. If anyone does actually want to get emails of blog comments made by other people, just check the box that says “Check this box to receive new comment notification emails for this topic” when you post your next comment for that topic. Of course, you can always just come here to the blog and look, too (which I hope you will do often).

I hope I have not caused too much anguish and that you can forgive me. Computers! — gotta love them — gotta hate them. Back to our knitting and fun, ok?

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Does it feel like the start of Fall to you? We’ve had such a durned hot summer and I am really, really looking forward to a reprieve from the heat. According to the official word, the Autumnal Equinox was today (September 23, 2011) at 5:05 A.M. EDT. Welcome Fall!

Did you know …
1. The four seasons are determined by how our planet orbits the Sun and the tilt of its axis, thus affecting the angle and amount of sunlight reaching Earth.

2. The first day of fall is the Autumnal Equinox on which day and night are each about 12 hours long (with the actual time of equal day and night, in the Northern Hemisphere, occurring a few days after the Autumnal Equinox). The sun crosses the celestial equator going southward; it rises exactly due east and sets exactly due west.

3. According to Wikipedia, the word equinox is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night).

4. Catherine Wingate’s Autumnal Equinox Socks design was first published as the September pattern in The Sock Calendar book. The book is now out of print, but the design has been republished as a single pattern so it can continue to be enjoyed by knitters everywhere, anytime. The Sock Calendar is also now available in electronic format as an downloadable ebook from most download sites selling HeartStrings patterns.

Other seasonal patterns in the HeartStrings pattern line celebrating fall can be seen in the Fall Favorites Collection.

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