This weekend was quite the busy weekend for all of us! My house has smelled like Christmas since Friday and I love it!
My husband and my Dad did a bunch of work on the house all day Saturday and Sunday. I spent the day Saturday and most of Sunday peeling, cooking and canning apple butter, caramel apple jam and apple sauce.
I ended up doubling the apple butter recipe and it took a lot longer than I thought it would! I think part of my problem is that my crock-pot doesn't really cook that high on high. I've noticed before that foods tend to take a little longer to cook so it isn't that much of a surprise. The recipe turned out FANTASTIC and I am really impressed with how easy and delicious it was! (After the initial making of the apple sauce that is. I like my apple sauce chunky, so making smooth apple sauce is kind of a pain.)
Over the weekend I canned 19 1/2 pint jars of Caramel Apple Jam, 10 1/2 pint jars of apple butter and 7 pints of chunky apple sauce. I probably have another 7 pints of sauce to make and can left.
This cooler weather has me itching to make some hand-knit wool socks. I took a sock making class once, but ended up not retaining much since it was the magic loop method and completely new to me. This was also 5 years ago so I think I am going to pick out a beginner sock pattern from Ravelry and cast on this weekend! I would really like to try some of the aloe infused sock yarn, but not sure if the aloe is there to soothe your hands while you knit or there for your feet?
We'll really see how far I get with that project!