If it isn’t about yarn, it must be food related.

Monkey love

Looks like I’m not going to make it into BlogHer food. I signed up late and was on the waiting list – foolish to wait I know.

I’ll just drown my sorrows in Monkey Love and Churros dipped in chocolate.

Monkey Love is the drink above as served to me at Marinitas, a new restaurant in San Anselmo. I might have to reverse engineer it for consumption at a later date. I know it contained Myer’s platinum and dark rum, pineapple, orange and hibiscus. Very tropical and very potent.

The rest of the meal was pretty darn tasty too. We shared appetizers: ceviche, and queso fundito (mmmmmm queso). And I had the Saturday special entre Pork Tinga. The pork was fork tender and served over cheezy polenta (mmmm cheezy). My only complaint was that we had to order tortillas separately. Who serves a plate of meat without tortillas?

Whatever.

I was quickly subdued by the arrival of the warm, crisp churros with chocolate dipping sauce. (mmmmm chocolate)

Churros and chocolate.Churro anyone?

Knitting in Style : knitters ahead of the fashion game.

I was flipping through the August issue of InStyle Magazine and came across the page below where Rachel Bilson identifies 3 of her favorite trends for the upcoming fall season.

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Look at the far right – Knits!

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What they’re calling “tube scarves,” were and are very popular with a variety of patterns available on Ravelry and elsewhere.

IGK cowl

Isn’t Irish Girly a pretty picture in her cashmere cowl? In person, it is really hard to stop petting its yummy softness.

This lacy “Cofter’s Cowl” is a free Ravelry download and a nice way to do a bit of lace without making a big commitment.

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The “tube scarves” on the run way were a bit larger and while I like the idea of all that warmth in the front, I know it would be quite bulky in the back. Luckily the talented Sam has created one with short rows and a button in her clever and elegant Tellum pattern.

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There’s more from InStyle. They call this cabled Burberry cowl “supercute”

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Do you see that pricetag?! Time to cast on some luxury yarn and get cracking on something supercute for me!