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All in a day

and a race against the clock if I want it to truly be in this day. So here we go.

Today a box who dreamed of being a colourway got it’s wish.

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My friend Shannon’s daughter Hazel celebrated her very first yr. on the planet gracing us with her loveliness. Here she is with her mom and grandmother at Twisted the magical yarn heaven Shannon owns with her partner in all things yarn Emily.

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While there Shannon and I took pics of her test knit of our new pattern that is coming out real soon.

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And who could resit taking a shot of the oh so lovely Star Athena in her cool socks and lovely scarf out of my Freckles STR. I promise to put links and all that in tomorrow morning.

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All in all a pretty good day.

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Oh yeah!

Holy cow I almost forgot we got all the sock club packages and ready to waltz out the door tomorrow.  Thanks Jen and Susan and Debbi and Joann and Paula and Rosebud and Anneli and Becky and Debra and Narayan and Candice and (I must be forgetting someone). Oh… of course Gail and Star and JC and well, the other two you will find out soon enough. I bet you thought I was going to slip up there didn’t ya?

ok nighty night dearest knitters. May all your dreams be warm and wooly.

Rockin” Sock Club 2010 sign-ups.

Hey all,

We are almost full, so as of this Thursday 3/25/10 at 10:00 AM PDT ,we are lovingly but firmly closing down the sign-ups for this years sock club.

We are full… we are full… we are full.

Luck of the Irish

An Irish blessing for this St Patrick’s Day

An áit a bhuil do chroí is ann a thabharfas do chosa thú.

Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.

and a tune

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!!

How about we celebrate by paying homage to our favourite shades of green. I’ll go first. I love all greens every single one, have not met a green I do not like. That said

my absolute green love is of the mossy, scummy kind. Like this…

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Why I love Camp a photo essay.

well there’s all the SOCK KNITTING!

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…and everyone there thinks it is not only normal but kind of wonderful to make a sock colour wheel.

Have you met the Sock Whisperer?

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Knitters… so many lovely knitters. ( the knitters are my favourite part)

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Chickens

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Crows

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Monkeys

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and yes Crabs.

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Maybe wee bit of silliness.

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and lots and lots of learning and challenging our knit perceptions

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Also Cat and Steph in their constant attempt to torture the hell out me with using and transforming their first camp project “ the Chicken and the Egg” into whatever creative camp assignment for the year is instead of coming up with a new like everyone else.

Can’t wait to see what the slackers lovelies come up with this year. After all the camp homework is all about the boobies ladies.

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So those are some of my favourite moments.

Any of you campers want to share yours please feel free.

See you soon!!

Camp Cattywampus News and Update

There are still spaces in Session One of Camp and we have made a bit of a change also.

Recently circumstances beyond her control ( life) has made Anna Zillboorg’s attendance at Camp uncertain.  We wish dear Anna the best, and are hopeful that these circumstances will resolve enough to let her be with us at camp.  However, we won’t know for a little while if she can be with us or not.  That’s the bad news.

The good news, is that in our search for a replacement teacher, our very first choice said yes, and we’ve been able to rope the fantastical Janel Laidman (Author of The Eclectic Sole, and The Enchanted Sole) into coming to teach you a wonderful class.

Colorful Creativity – Stranded Socks that fit with flair.  Colourwork socks are really fun to knit and wear, and we will explore how to avoid common pitfalls when knitting stranded socks, like how to keep them from having loosey goosey ladders at the needle joins, how to keep your floats floating and stretchy, how to shape the leg so you don’t end up with something that cuts off circulation at the calf while bagging around the ankles and how to combine colors for best effect.  In class we’ll be knitting a mini sock that combines all of these strategies, and we’ll discuss how to apply them to grown up size footwear.  No experience with stranding is necessary, we will discuss how to manage the yarns to achieve a smooth colorful look.

While we realize that nobody can really take Anna’s place (and frankly, we’re still more than hopeful that she’ll be able to be with us in some way for that weekend) we’re thrilled that Janel (an expert at colourwork, check out these socks) can come and work her magic.  We know you’ll love her as a teacher. 

I for one am really looking forward to Camp.  It is such a fun, happy and loving place.  It is a whole lot of work but it is the good kind where you collapse at the end of the day exhausted but completely content. The kind of days that are so full they are brimming with yarn play of all sorts and colour and stitches and turkey basters and dye and beads and lovely fun talented people. Where you have shared and learned and laughed ( there is a whole lot of laughing) and maybe even shed a tear or two. I’m not outing anyone here but some of us might be a bit emotional. Days filled with wonderful moments that you find yourself revisiting all through the rest of the year.

Sock Camp is the reason there was a Sock Summit.  We wanted to share what we felt was just the best sock knit experience with many many knitters.

I really love our sock camp and all the wonderful knitters who come to play with us.

I just can’t wait. I am now going to wake up teen girls and get them ready for their day before someone gets herself all worked up maybe sheds a tear.

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