apples and quilts, but not apple quilts

 Not much is interesting on the knitting front.  But i did do the most sterotypical New England thing in the whole world this weekend, I went apple picking and it was awesome!!!

There were a lot of kinds of apples and I'm pretty sure we tasted all of them.  That was before i read the 1 apple per bag rule, but we had fun. 

My favorites were the gala apples, which i'd tasted before, and is pictured above. 
Another favorite, the Roxbury Russet (it's very Bostony haha) was nice and sour, and my first experience with a russet.

Russets have a distinctive textured skin, which is porus and dries out easily.  They aren't the shiny types you generally see at the grocery store because they aren't really as attractive.  but boy are they tasty!

The purple sweater is going well, and I'm going to start a series of pieces on my dip into quilting. 

First step was shopping!  my first quilt will be a present for my father featuring some Carolina panther's fabric i found

<a href="http://www.jandofabrics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=nfl00034">Fabric</a>

It's going to be a simple nine square quilt with black backing and white squares. 

more updates later when the fabric comes, or i finish my ribbing!

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