Hoodie Shawl -- Jo's Pride

Photographs, finally!

Way back when I joined Woolgirl's Victorian Writers Club. This is a series of knit kits inspired by Victorian literature. Sometime in April I started reading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott to get ready for the kit that would arrive later in the month. When it did I was not disappointed. I eagerly began knitting Jo's Pride, or as I called it, my "hoodie shawl". I love lace and I learned a lot about incorporating beads into it. Knit, knit, knit. I finished. Shawl sat around for a while before I blocked it. Then it sat around until today when I finally asked Rene to help me with a photo shoot.

These are the results. It's nearly 100 degrees outside. I was sweating and suffering, as was my photographer! Now he's laying on the couch watching a movie. I'm going to get some iced tea and join him.

I love my hoodie shawl!

Yarn Blobbies

I often knit during lunch at work. I end up with little bits and balls of yarn on my desk. Today I arranged them on my mouse pad and took a photo (with the phone, thus the poor quality). I need to branch out from blue!

Hiking in the Mountains

I'm ready to go back to Camp Loopy tomorrow. This time I'll be hiking in the mountains as I attempt to make mittens with cables. I'll have some company since my Counting Sheep has decided to come with me to camp. He's number 55.

Between sessions of camp, I have been working on my Kudzu shawl. I've done more since this picture was taken. I'm really liking the results.

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Last Sunday I went to our local theater to see a production of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None". One of the characters, an older woman, knit almost all the time she was on stage. She truly was knitting, not just waving her needles around. She seemed to be making something brown and square...maybe it was the start of a scarf. I wondered if she continued working on the same project for the run of the play. Maybe she'd end up with an actual finished object. Anyway, at one point she said, "Where is my other skein of wool?" Needless to say, she ended up murdered. This was an Agatha Christie story, after all.

Whippoorwill at Camp Loopy

This summer I went to camp. Camp Loopy, that is. I haven't been to camp since I was a 13-year-old Girl Scout and that was a long time ago. (A shout-out to Lazy Acres in Rye, Colorado!) This camp is a bit different. It's sponsored by Loopy Ewe and has three sessions. The first has the theme "Campfire Nights". Each participant made a two-colored shawl, cape, or scarf. I have wanted to make the Whippoorwill shawl (Rav link) since I saw it on a worker at my (now-closed) LYS at the beginning of the year. This was the perfect time to do it!
I'm really happy with this! Come fall (late November around here) I'll be glad to wear this.

The pattern is quite simple. It is mainly stockinette with only a few rows doing something different. The yarn I used is called JulieSpins Merino 370 (Rav link). It's very nice to work with.

As usual, blocking is the magical step that takes a project from a bit of knitted cloth to a great finished product.

Next week I'll be at camp again for the second session, "Hiking in the Mountains". I'm going to make cabled mittens. I've never made cables before. I've never made mittens before. Wish me luck!