Come Swim With Me, Pumpkin Crochet Pattern, Etc.

I swim 3 times a week, M-W-F for 1 hour.  I swim here at LA Fitness in their salt water pool.  My favorite lane is this one, by the wall of windows - and I love it when the sun shines in.  One of the neat things about the time I swim is I have a whole hour to think about things, figure out problems and come up with new ideas.  :-)

I finished my little pumpkin that I was crocheting today while I was volunteering at Multnomah Falls.  I took my little pumpkin out and "posed" it on the granite stone wall leading up to the falls.  Isn't it cute?  I want to make at least 2 more in different sizes and shapes for my fall decor.  This one is quite small, the size of one of those mini pumpkins you can buy in the produce section this time of year.  I used cotton yarn from Knit Picks.. their "Dishie" yarn.

Here is the little pumpkin at home with the other decorations on the table.

Closer...

Tiny Pumpkin Crochet Pattern 

Materials - I used Knit Picks Dishie cotton yarn & stuffing

I used a D hook, American crochet terms are used in this project

(NOTE: You can either work in continuous rounds, or at end of each row, slip stitch into 1st sc, ch 2 to count as first sc)

Rnd 1 - in Orange, make "magic ring" and sc 6

Rnd 2 - 2sc in each st - 12 sts

Rnd 3 - (sc1, 3sc in next st) x6 - 24sts

Rnd 4 - sc2tog, (2sc in next st) twice x6 - 30 sts

Rnd 5 - sc around

Rnd 6 - (sc2tog, 2sc in next st, sc1, 2sc in next st) x6 - 36sts

Rnd 7 - sc around

Rnd 8 - (sc2tog, 2sc in next st, sc2, 2sc in next st) x6 - 42 sts

Rnds 9-12 - sc around (I goofed and only did one sc round!)

Rnd 13 - (sc2tog, sc 5) x6 - 36sts

Rnd 14 - (sc2tog, sc 4) x6 - 30sts

Rnd 15 - (sc2tog, sc3) x6 - 24sts

Rnd 16 - (sc2tog, sc2) x6 - 18sts

Rnd 17 - change to green - (sc2tog, sc1) x6 - 12 sts, stuff head

Rnd 18 - (sc2tog) x6 - 6sts

Rnd 19-21 - sc around

Rnd 22 - sc2tog, sc4 - 5 sts

Rnd 23 - sc2tog, sc3, 4st

Bind off and sew closed (I fudged a bit on the stem)

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I took these photos of our black bamboo stand.. I love this bamboo!

Below are a few small branches I cut to cut into beads.  I need to try cutting it with my Dremel tool as the pruning shears I was using was crushing the canes as the blade wasn't real sharp.

Below is a photo of Multnomah Falls today - see how little water is coming over the falls?  The water source is snow melt from Larch Mt., rainfall and a spring.  This is mostly spring water as the snow has melted and it hasn't rained much lately.  I'll show you more water coming over the falls when the rain comes back in earnest.

Driving home.. I love this section of the Historic Columbia River Highway.. like a tunnel of trees.

And I pulled out in the "Viewpoint" just West of Rooster Rock State Park and got this luscious photo of the late afternoon light over the river.

And to end up I thought I'd show you the Fall wreath on our back door and our antique thermometer, which really works!  Everyone enters through the back door, hardly anyone comes to the front door, only if they don't know us. LOL

And so.. time for rest and relaxation.  The new Fall season of television programs have started this week - time for some "Big Bang Theory" is a favorite of ours.  And leftover Chinese food!  

My daughter is busily trying to get her new home in order in Ohio - unpacking boxes and organizing things.  Jenna, the almost 7 year old, started 1st grade there on Monday and Paige, the 3 year old, is going to pre-school 3 times a week for half days.  They've been staying with her husband's parents for a week now, and plan to move to their rented townhouse tomorrow.  Her husband is finalizing things here in Oregon with his work for 2 weeks and then will drive to Ohio next week, stopping to visit some old friends along the way.  My daughter has been very busy taking care of everything and will be glad when he arrives.

Our youngest son and his wife have had us for dinner twice this week, they are so good to us!  It's so nice that we have 2 & 3 year old little grandsons to play with.  Our older son and his 2 boys visited with us yesterday and we all went out to Chinese dinner.  :-)

I hope you're having a wonderful week!  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)