autumn leaves – Ruth E. Hendricks

Lollipop Stick Holding Gusset Stitches

Car knitting today.

I needed to hold stitches for the gusset, the thumb hole. No barber cord, no pony bead lacing, no waste yarn available in the car. Old Halloween litter from a school party. I bent the Tootsie Roll Pop stick to hold the stitches while I continued to knit up the hand of the mitten. Pattern is Quick Bulky Mitten by Aimee Pelletier

Woolly Thistle Bag. **Malabrigo Caracol**
purchased last year in Millvale at **McWalker Yarns**

“Malabrigo Caracol is hand-dyed, super bulky superwash merino wool yarn reminiscent of stained glass art.”

I stopped by a friend’s house to drop off some yarn. Took and Jack’s leaves are reminiscent of the yarn colors.

November 28, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Fiber Art, knitting, PhotographyTags: Aimee Pelletier, autumn leaves, bulky yarn, knitting, leaves, litter, Malabrigo, mitten, neighborhood, photo of the day, photography, postaday, Tootsie Roll Pop 9 Comments

Leaf Collection Guest Blog

Nat King Cole sings Autumn Leaves click to listen

New York City Leaves my sister collected

And two from my Pittsburgh yard

leaf with backlight

November 5, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: autumn leaves, guest blog, leaves, photography, postaday, sister, trees, weather 12 Comments

November 2016- Hide and Seek

Throwback Thursday – Charlie was one

November 9, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: autumn leaves, childhood, fall, family, hide and go seek, photography, playground, postaday, weather 4 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

October 31, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Wordless WednesdayTags: autumn leaves, childhood, Columbus OH, family, Gingko, neighborhood 12 Comments

Fall Colors in Columbus

November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: autumn, autumn leaves, city scene, colors, Columbus OH, fall, family, neighborhood, photography, postaday, season, travel, weather 12 Comments

Front Porch Find

In sweeping up some leaves, a stitch marker turned up by the pile.

From front porch knitting.

You never know where they’ll appear. Between couch cushions, too. Have yet to find one in the bottom of any bowls of soup!

After I posted, I saw on IG The Crafty Jackalope in Vancouver BC, asked followers to “Tell me you’re a knitter without telling me.” She had posted a photo of yarn hanging out of a car door. I messaged her this photo I took yesterday and she sent back a fun emoji!

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 by Ruth Categories: knitting, PhotographyTags: autumn leaves, broom, front porch, knitting, photography, postaday, stitch marker, sweeping 12 Comments

Ginkgoes in NYC and Pittsburgh

Note: Last night I was adding Veterans photos to the Veterans Gallery and creating a new blog post for Thursday slipped my mind. If you’d like to see the new additions, here’s the link to the Gallery

Ginkgoes

Rich golden fan shaped leaves make the Gingko a stand out this time of year. My sister sent NYC gingko pics snd I had taken one I’d taken here in Pittsburgh.