Camp Loopy Project 1 – 2014

It’s Camp Loopy time! Yay! I love Camp Loopy!

The first challenge this year runs through June, and is to make a project that reminds you of one of your favorite books, tv shows or movies. Well darn! I don’t watch TV enough to have a favorite show. We sometimes watch movies but there’s nothing I would say is a real favorite. I thought about Steel Magnolias because the lady (the one who died) was actually married to a guy I went to high school and college with (and he is a doctor, not a lawyer), and after she died, he remarried and the bought a house across the street from us when I lived in my purple Victorian house.

I still love that house even though someone along the way painted it blue and it’s no longer purple!  I remember helping design the stained glass, I remember numerous trips to Houston when Chad was an infant, trying to find things for the house, I remember the roofers putting the wrong shingles on our house . . the shingles that were supposed to go on the house across the street that was being built! Lots of memories in that house! But . . back to Camp Loopy!  I thought about. the books I’ve read and then I remembered one of my favorite books . . The Little Red Hen. That book was read to me as a child and I think the moral of the story still applies . . or should still apply today.

I began searching for something I could knit that would depict The Little Red Hen and decided on Lady Kina.

It looks a little bit like the sweater the hen is wearing  . . maybe a little!  Next, I had to decide which yarn to use. I wanted to use a bright yellow, kinda like the picture on the cover of the book. The first problem is . . I look terrible in yellow. The second problem is . . I couldn’t find any yellow worsted weight yarn that I liked that had enough to make a sweater. Everyone else jumped on the wagon early in the day yesterday and bought their yarn but I was out working in the garden, or bathing chickens, or cracking unhatched eggs just to see what was inside. Such an exciting life I live! I did almost make a trip to town yesterday but decided against it!

So, late last night, while the rest of the residents (husband, dog, cat, chickens and other critters I probably don’t want to know about) were fast asleep, I was shopping at The Loopy Ewe. These were the finalists:

The Spud and Chloe Sweater – I’ve been wanting to use Spud and Chloe Sweater in something for a very long time. Even though it isn’t yellow, the “Firecracker” is almost the same color as The Little Red Hen, and the same color as Miss Hattie and Ruby, my two favorite chickens from the past.

Malabrigo Rios – I used it last year in a small project and loved it. Teal because that’s the only color they had left that I liked, and because my Silkie rooster, though not a “little red hen” by any stretch, has teal ear lobes, and with the name “feather” in the color, well . . I don’t need to give an explanation for that, do I?

Which color/yarn do you think I chose? You’ll have to wait to find out!

It isn’t too late to join in the fun at Camp Loopy. Head on over to The Loopy Ewe, click on Sheri’s Blog (at the top), read the “rules” and get excited about summer camp once again!  🙂