My husband literally fell off his chair when I announced that I was officially a "camper". I'm far from the camping type with way too many squirmish non-camping ways about me. But this year I will be a camper, in the Meg Swansen Knitting Camp way. I just received my email to say that I was in (and my friend Linda-my roommate). I'm so excited. I read the newsletter about what we'll be doing and I think I may have danced around a little and air punched in excitement. I then read what we should take, and repeated above self-congratulatory exhibitions.
In reading the newsletter, I saw that we are supposed to make a nametag to wear during camp, so my mind is racing already with some ideas.
In hopeful anticipation of acceptance to camp, I had purchased some Guernsey wool in navy and am knitting the child's pattern from the latest wool gathering (and dvd). I'm loving it. I'm particularly enjoying this because I grew up close to the Channel Islands and visited there a few times. My parents owned a fish and chip shop and I would go to the Fish Market at the dock with my dad sometims and you would see the fishermen in their guernseys, so the connection to that is making it also quite fun.
I haven't posted in quite a while, so I'll give a little update on the knitting front.
I'm knitting away on the Icarus Shawl in Misti Alpaca in sage green. I started it last week and have been flying away (until the guernsey yarn showed up).
I bagged up tons of my other projects that were just staring at me making me feel very unmotivated to knit. The guilt of unfinished projects can really drag me down.
I have began a very thorough cleansing of the yarn department in my house. No, this time I'm getting it done.
I'm also going through the patterns and magazines and seeing which I want to keep, what I'm interested in knitting and what needs to be 86'd.
I ordered last Thursday at 11:30am the yarn, and dvd for the guernsey and it was here the next day. Now, I know I live close to Schoolhouse Press, but come on, that was impressive turn around. I remembered my mothers advice to always be grateful, and called and said thank you to them.
I'm registering for Stitches, but am definitely not taking the number of classes like last time. jae and Marji will agree, schedule overload last year. It's less than a month after camp, so I'm not sure that I'd want that full of a schedule again also.
Chinatown is completed, and shockingly for me, sewn together. I am in the process of weaving in ends and will then attach buttons. It looks great. I'm very pleased with it.
Any advice??
I've been having very sore joints of my hands lately, especially when my hands get cold, and then I can't seem to get them warm and they ache. Strangely the movement of knitting seems to help them, but I was wondering if anyone has any advice?
I'll try to snap a pic of the guernsey and post it shortly (I'm trying not to wake EB up from a nap - Marji knows how desperately I need EB to nap after our phone conversation on Saturday)
A couple of items for sale
Rowan Magazine #20 OOP $20 - SOLD
Rowan Magazine #22 OOP $20
Rowan Magazine #31 OOP $15 - SOLD
Email me at knittinbrit at charter dot net if interested
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3 comments:
MY gosh, you live! Yay!
Chinatown sounds perfect, I can't wait to see a pic of it.
Now THAT'S my idea of camping! Sounds great!
I feel no guilt from my UFO's. Sometimes I feel guilt about the number of projects I start, but I perservere until the feeling goes away.
Not much help on the hand thing. I've got it myself. I use a wrist wrap quite a bit and ibuprofen when it starts to ache. Sometimes I even stop knitting.
Well, hello stranger! Sounds like a busy but fun summer.
Guilt? No! Stress? Yes, but I'm slowly working through the WIPs.
So when can we see the finished Chinatown?
Congratulations on Getting In to camp! Yay :)
Did you book yet for Stitches? We're having company? A certain 2 Canadians(one with red hair) are crossing the border! and another from the West Coast.
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