White Chocolate = Fall

For some reason I am always drawn to baking with white chocolate as soon as the weather turns a bit cooler. Today I made these cookies. They turned out very deliciously. I added a little bit more white chocolate than the recipe called for, because I didn't want the cranberries to completely take over.

I also think fall is a good time for knitting. (This is really a joke, because I knit year-round. It doesn't get very hot here in the summer. I think we ran the furnace every month except August so far this year.) I finished the orange slippers I'd been procrastinating over, and they didn't turn out nearly as nice as the pattern images. This is because: a) I had to shorten them half-way through knitting the first one, when I realized it would be way too big for my foot- but I should have also shortened the foot opening. So to keep them from falling off my feet, I had to b) add a ribbed cuff to pull the opening in a bit. And then that looked so dorky compared to the nice picot edging the pattern suggests, so I decided it wouldn't hurt to c) add pom-poms. I like making pom-poms, so I didn't exactly need an excuse. I also think most slippers look better with pom-poms, but maybe these particular ones just look ridiculous. Either way, they are still too big, even with the thick wooly socks I seem to be wearing lately (it's cold). Sigh. I will resort back to my tested-and-true slipper pattern for my next pair, I think.

And while we're talking about knitting and fall, you should check out the beautiful and inspiring new patterns from Brooklyn Tweed. I am definitely going to have to make this cardigan. You can never have too many cardigans. I might make it in grey. I particularly like the stand up collar...