Do you ever wonder if your friends talk about you when you’re not around? What if two complete strangers who have never met each other are talking about you behind your back and emailing about you? What if said two friends are “betting” about what you’ll do or won’t do? I just have the best friends, don’t I? 🙂
Yesterday, I got this email from my friend, Denise.
So have you cast on yet and if so, what project? Judy D in WA and I are placing bets as to which project you choose. LOL
I don’t think I got the whole story on this little “bet”. What do you think about that? My friends are betting on what project I’ll choose. I wonder who won this bet! Maybe you can find out . . neither seem to be talking much to me about it.
Camp Loopy officially started at 12:01 a.m. on June 1. Some crazy folks (Denise and others I’m sure) stayed up til midnight and began knitting and then knit half the night. Not me! I hadn’t even started knitting . . heck, I hadn’t even decided what I was going to knit til last night. I had so many patterns I bought and printed that I wanted to knit but when I finally looked at the instructions for 3S Shawl, I knew that would work. It’s such a simple pattern, I can knit it while riding or talking and we have a little road trip this week. One thing about the 3S Shawl .. well, maybe several things:
- It’s free on Ravelry.
- It can be made using one skein of most sock yarns.
- You don’t have to count stitches or rows so you can talk while knitting! Yay! I love to talk! 🙂
- I do believe it would be easy for even an beginner to make this one.
3S Shawl
As suspected, I would have liked this a whole lot more in a more solid colored yarn. The yarn is Three Irish Girls Adorn Sock and the color is Storm Brew. I’m thinking this will be very pretty with jeans and I may use it for a graduation gift. The “tone on tone” obsession has taken over my yarn preferences too. I realize this variegated blue would be considered tone on tone by many but I think my preferences are totally more in line with “reads solid” so I’ll have to remember that when buying yarn in the future, especially when I’m not sure what the yarn will be made into. I would have loved this yarn in socks but not so much in anything else.
The first few rows were so quick, I was thinking I’d have this thing finished in a day or two but then I remembered how LONG these rows will get and how LONG it will take me to knit a row.
Onward Camp Loopy! I love knitting . . but summertime sucks up all my time with the garden and watering the fruit trees, leaving far too little time to knit. Hopefully by next summer, the irrigation system will all be completed but for this summer, it’s water hoses and sprinklers . . and not much inside time.
So . . Judy? Denise? Who won the bet? And, what did the winner get?
lynne quinsland says
if i had been in on the bet i would have lost. i was choosing the cabled shawl (and when i get an extra nickel or two i AM gonna buy that pattern!!!)
on my needles are 2 socks. both for the pooling challenge. one set pooled beautifully, the other striped just as it was designed to. i had thought i would knit like a mad woman and finish atleast the pooling one to make it for the challenge deadline. then, i decided that knitting like a mad woman was not going to be a fun time for me so i gladly set my needles down and did some piecing instead……just wanted a peaceful day, not one with stress in it over a sock anymore…..even if it was good and fun stress, it was still stress that i did not really want.
i am still lugging the sock around with me to get it done sooner rather than later. i took it yesterday with me for a deluxe pedicure and just knit and knit and knit while getting pampered. total joy!!!
i love to knit!
Judy L. says
I think the one you’re talking about used DK weight yarn and we had to use lace or fingering for this project.
Judy D in WA says
Yeah!!! I win!!! Or did I? 😉 Right now I am in a full blown belly laugh! You are so funny! 🙂 You gals have fun at Camp Loopy, don’t forget to write….
I’m glad you found time to sit down and start your project.
Judy L. says
Vince is still threatening to withdraw me from camp so I’m setting up a knitting station in the bathroom and having lots of belly aches til he figures it out! 🙂 Not really . . but I do think playing sick and not working in the yard for a day or two is a good idea.
Denise ~ Justquiltin says
ROFLOL Judy L – the betting started here
http://justquiltin.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/camp-loopy-countdown/
Judy D left a comment on that post saying she bets you start the 3S Shawl so she wins.
I’m guessing that since my bed in the cabin on Mt. Loopious was NOT short sheeted last night that you must be staying on a different Mountain at Camp Loopy than I am!
JudyL says
Oh yes, I am on Mount Kaytwopeatwo. I think we all need to get together and have our own knitting retreat!
vickie van dyken says
We all win 🙂 We get to read your funny posts!! With a little bit of quilter wisdom included!! I’m pretty sure that you have lots of great friends. Thankfully I do to . I love them all right back. That is the thing about friends….you can ask them about those behind your back conversations,,,,and laugh about the answer 🙂 We are blessed.
Diana Purdy says
I’m laughing so hard! I was thinking about internet friends this morning! I enjoy hearing your stories about Addie, Chad and Nicole,Vince and all your other children (Gracie, Houdi and lets not forget Miss Hattie). I just think it’s great that even though we haven’t met, we so look forward to hearing about our online buddies days! I have had conversations today with people from Texas, Colorado and California, people I haven’t met, Lisa Snipes is from Colorado, she’s quite an artist in the quilting world (awesome Gammil longarmer) and I did meet her this year when she did a trunkshow in NJ. People can say what they like about the internet, but I have met so many people online, that I would have never met without the internet! Keep those storeis coming and thanks for sharing!
AngieG9 says
Even though I’m not enrolled in Camp Loopy I really love reading about it. And I love knitting while I’m reading or watching a movie. It’s so relaxing I can sometimes fall asleep with the needles in my hands. Of course when I wake up a lot of stitches have usually been dropped, but that’s no real biggie. I just do it for fun and relaxation any way, and how much more relaxed can you get than asleep? I love all the posts here. It’s so entertaining and companiable. Like one big happy family.
Cindy Kuipers says
I am not doing Campy Loopy, but love to read your comments. I am also finding myself not to be a fan of variegated yarns. I love you the look in the skein, but once I start knitting them I am not as happy. I like them for socks, not so much for other things.
Can’t wait to see your finished project!
Susan says
Love the shawl, and I’m not even a knitter. Your posts are always appealing. I think that’s why you have so many reading … and making bets about you! LOL I met my best friend in an online quilt guild in 1996. We’ve been friends for frighteningly close to twenty years now!
Amy (Waunaknit) says
Too funny! I would have bet on 3S. I like how it looks, but understand about buying yarns that “read” solid. Hope your tummy feels better soon. ;0)