Thaddeus had a recent birthday. Since he was born on Valentine’s Day, he opted to make us both a birthday pie.

Birthday Cake or Birthday Pie?

If you had your druthers, would you have cake or pie on your birthday?

Or something altogether different?

I’ve made both cakes and pies in the distant past. I’ve always had a big sweet tooth, so either works for me. But if given the choice I would probably choose cake. A rich, moist chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream icing sounds ideal to me right now.

Every year whilst growing up, my mom would make us a birthday cake. Whatever we chose. My go-to birthday cake for most of my life was angel food cake with whipped cream. Which I still love. But in recent years, I have grown to really love a rich, moist cake and a good buttercream frosting.

For Thaddeus’ birthday, it’s not my choice. And honestly, he makes an excellent pie. I also really love pie and his birthday apple pie was excellent.

You’ll have to excuse my focus on sweets today. After finishing the pie, I really have to re-wean myself off sugar, and so I’m quite craving sweet things. Can you tell?

Readers’ Comments/Questions

Karen writes:

“I love your Hitchhiker. I’ve knitted quite a few, and you’ve inspired me to make one more. The construction of the pattern is so clever—the simple garter stitch, the nod to the book, and the repeat pattern come together so seamlessly, much like a well-built structure.“

Karen is correct…it’s a wonderful pattern to knit. One of those perfectly balanced patterns that is easy and interesting and creates a beautiful result.

Current Knitting

I finally got to the end of the first full hank of Tosh Merino Light (in colorway Papercuts) on my Hitchhiker.

I love the visual effect of the sun on this beautiful yarn. It makes it even more glorious.

One hank gave a shawlette that is about 60″ long and about 13″ tall at its widest.

I’m glad I have the second skein. It’s almost always better to have excess fabric in a wrap than not enough.