Kevin and I went on an adventure this afternoon to a pumpkin patch in New Jersey. It seems that there isn't a lot of pumpkin picking in the city-proper, so we enjoyed a journey involving sitting in a bunch of traffic to do something nature-like.





We went to the Demarest Farm in Hillsdale, NJ. I'll admit that we went there in part because when I was watching the news Friday morning, the weather lady was out there doing weather "on location."





The place was packed with people, but they were fully staffed to manage the large crowds. We had to wait a bit for the hayride out to the pumpkin field. (Not really the pumpkin patch because all of the pumpkins were already harvested and just spread out in the field.)





It was fun picking out unique pumpkins. We also explored the large farm store and bought some apple cider donuts and a fresh apple pie (need to do lots of Wii Fit this weekend!). We had a bit of an adventure getting home with getting caught up in the roads and traffic around the Garden State Plaza Mall, which seems absolutely insane. It was a mall with valet parking! We made a few wrong turns because we missed our exit and ended up circling the mall parking lot to get back to the highway.


This evening I picked Scabbard back up and continued knitting. I ended up going with plan 3. I'm elongating the horseshoe cables like they should be. I think the combination doesn't look too bad.





The yarn is Jo Sharp Silkroad DK Tweed in Boheme. Here's a look at the sleeve cable which is a squished horseshoe (my bad) into a braided cable:





And one last picture modeled by Mr. Pumpkin...





So I'm moving forward on this one. I'm pretty happy with it so far. It is a bit slow, but that's because it is getting bigger with the raglan increases. I'm excited though to merge the cables eventually under the arm. I think that that is a really cool design feature.


Hammie!