Almost There!

I think I will actually get my Camp Loopy Project 3 done by the end of the day tomorrow.  I have all the knitting done, the sleeves are blocking now and I have started the seaming.  I did the kitchener graft stitch on the back of the collar section and have pinned the shoulder seams and neckline.  Then it will be to sew in the sleeve cap and the underarm seams. The photo is a weird angle shot of the two fronts with the collar grafted.  I'll get a better photo for next week.  

We had a great time when the kids were all home, an epic water fight, found Ole and Lena, and trips to the Des Moines farmers market and the Iowa State Fair.  My little grandson enjoyed the fair more than the farmers market, lots to look at, the Little Hands on the Farm area and he got to sit in every John Deere tractor there.  He was a happy little boy!

My husband and I have done lots and lots of canning, the cupboards are getting full and the garden is starting to dry up.  We'll do a few more things this weekend and that might be the end of the big canning days.

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Camp Loopy Update

I was a little apprehensive about attempting a sweater for the Camp Loopy Project #3.  The requirement is you have to knit something and use at least 800 yards of yarn and get it completed in one month.  I choose what I thought looked like an easier pattern for a cardigan (Long Sands Cardigan from Ravelery) and bulky yarn (Malabrigo Mecha in Prussia Blue) and it's knitting pretty quickly.  I have the back done and about 2/3 of the right front.  And I was actually right, it is a pretty easy pattern and the front pattern is interesting.  I might actually get it done.....hopefully.

No knitting this weekend though, all the kids and assorted others are home for the weekend and a trip to the state fair is planned for Monday.

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An end and a beginning

I finished the Boneyard shawl and have already given it away.  It was hard get a good photo of it and getting the colors to show.  It's so soft and DD3 loved it so mission accomplished. 

I started on my Camp Loopy Project #3 yesterday.  The challenge is that it has to be a project that uses at least 800 yards of yarn and is completed 8/1 - 8/31.  I choose the Long Sands Cardigan (Rivalry pattern) using Malabrigo Mecha in Prussia Blue. The photo is the start of the back.   I have no idea how I am ever going to get an entire sweater knitted in one month!  In addition to the knitting the garden is producing so there is a lot of canning to do.  Last weekend DD, DH and I froze 57 bags sweet corn, 7 bags frozen peas, and canned 27 pints green beans and 7 pints dill pickles.  The tomatoes are just getting started so they are next.  I guess DD earned her shawl :-)

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