I have a post-Camp 2015 hangover!! I feel groggy, sluggish and off kilter. It is the result of being in an enclosed space with too much (is there such a thing??!!) yarn and lots of yarnies (people who adore yarn). I’m sure I’ll recover quickly!!
Camp was great. Wonderful to see everyone, and to sit at the feet of knitting royalty (Meg Swansen) and hear her words of knitting wisdom…as well as some jokes that are not PG rated! We learned a lot, we laughed a lot, others knit a lot. I experienced “project issues” and really have nothing to show for a “knitting weekend.”
Here are the yarns I acquired:
Not that much as these things go!
- Briggs & Little Regal, in two colors — I won this for taking 1st place in the annual challenge
- KnitCircus Greatest of Ease in Lothlorien — beautiful
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Schachenmayr Tahiti in Sun Shower (purchased at The Yarnery in a heading-home drive buy shopping urge)
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SunValley Fingering in a gorgeous reddish violet called Cherry
We stopped at The Norske Nook in Osseo Wisconsin and I picked up a cherry pie that was just out of the oven and piping hot. Oh my. We are eating it for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
This year’s challenge theme was “If I Had Wings.” I submitted Nightingale (as it is covered in wings!) and used Somewhere Over the Rainbow as my inspiration. My little poem:
To celebrate our theme of ‘If I Had Wings’
I’ll harken back to a song that Judy Garland Sings…
Someday I’ll wish upon a star
And wake up where my stash is all around me
Where troubles melt, no stitches drop
And I can knit and never stop
That’s where you’ll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow, yarn is blue
And the dream that I dared to dream finally did come true
If knitted little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow why, oh, why can’t I?
It’s back to work tomorrow, which will make Camp seem so far, far away…
I’m glad you had a good time – and your “wings” sweater should have won the contest, so Im glad it did. Your new lyrics are great! Hope you bring your new yarn to Panera so we can see (really I mean touch) it in person.
Comment by Mary M — July 14, 2015 @ 6:08 pm
I’ve got another day off and don’t go back until Thursday, but I am sure I’ll be a bit cranky come this time tomorrow night. Congrats again on your most deserved win!! What a fun time it was.
Comment by Penny — July 14, 2015 @ 11:33 pm
Congrats on your win! Not a surprise at all – so lovely! I, too, got absolutely nothing done at my Knit Camp! I was so busy helping others with their projects! We renamed our time together as “Tink Camp!” See you this afternoon! Can’t wait for the stories! Love your yarny goodness and the fun poem! Didn’t know you were a poet, too! Does the talent ever end!?
Comment by Kathy W. — July 16, 2015 @ 2:17 pm
It was so great seeing you! Your sweater was a masterpiece. We also stopped at the NN. I got a slice of lingonberry apple and peach praline. Laura had blueberry crumble and a cinnamon roll! We loved Crafty Planet and will make it our first stop next year.
Comment by Susan Beard — July 16, 2015 @ 8:19 pm
I join others in congratulating you on winning and on the great take on Over the Rainbow. I have to say that sweater will win anything it’s in. Just one of the loveliest, most well made hand knit I’ve ever seen.
Comment by annie — July 18, 2015 @ 11:23 am
PS – When I say “loveliest hand knit” I have to add that I believe hand knit is far and away better than any commercial machine knit!
Comment by annie — July 18, 2015 @ 11:26 am
The MN poets win by a wing….the contest was so much fun! Now, guess you’re onto fair time! And coming up with 2016 contest ideas.
Comment by Nancy — July 18, 2015 @ 6:31 pm
Just found your blog – it will be good to be able to keep up with you. No picture of that glorious sweater though – and glorious it is. I am too suffering from a camp hangover – too much yarn [sorry, no such thing, but others thought I bought too much], as you said, knitting with knitting royalty, and surrounded by knitting heirlooms. What could be better. Each year I say to myself “this will be my last year”, and then when the notice comes out that camp can be books, I forget my resolution, and start saving like mad.
See you next year
Comment by Pippa Jones — July 27, 2015 @ 5:19 pm