The Great Pumpkin Quest!

This week, for reasons unknown, I was seized by the urge to knit pumpkins. I must be getting preemptively homesick for Thanksgiving... I had a knit pumpkin pattern that I printed out years ago that I decided to test drive, and when I ran into trouble with that one I went on a Ravelry search to find some more ideas. Here then are the results of my great pumpkin quest--just in case you ever wanted to know this much about knit pumpkins!

First of all, I started on that pattern I had printed out several years ago and found out that this person a) couldn't always count, and b) left out a really critical batch of knit two together's on her pumpkin wedges. Eventually (with other pumpkins in between) I got it finished, though I kind of want to make another one that will look a little nicer. Right before the end I thought of a neater way to do something, so the last two wedges look nicer than the first two. *sigh* This was my last favorite of the pumpkins I knit this week.

The second pumpkin that I made was this one. Very simple, easily adaptable, and it produced my favorite of my three pumpkins. If I really wanted to I could add the yarn loops to pull it in more, but I like how this turned out. Truly mindless knitting, nice result!

The third pumpkin pattern I tried out this week is the spice pumpkin pattern. I liked how this one turn out, but I think I want to make another one where the loops aren't quite so tight. Very satisfactory.

Other than knitting pumpkins, is not much to report on this end. I was pretty sick yesterday--I suspect the worm pills. Either that or a kid slipped something into my water! This next week is the week of AOL--report card week, so either I'm going to be tempted to knit a sweater overnight, of I'm not going to get much done! I can't wait for term break...