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More of Camp KnittyhaHA

Tina “smooshing” color as only Tina can do. Beautiful in an instant. Magical where the colors meet.

Ever seen a crab who knows how to knit? This is one does , and he wasn’t the only crab there who knew how, there were at least 5 or 6 other crabs with projects in various stages of completion.

And this is Cat Bordhi (Socks Soar on Two Circs, New Pathways for Knitting Socks and many more wonderful books)on the left and Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (The Yarn Harlot) on the right with their “Chicken of the Sea”. A late entry into the homework presentation. Some art just lives on forever and ever and ever and ever…………….

This is the view out of the huge atrium-garden dining room. Beautiful . Just to the left of this was a giant totem pole that was a favorite perch of 3 bald eagles.

It was soooo

fun! These photos don’t even start to do it justice. The most fun you can have as a knitter. Imagine 60 other, wait—make that 58 other women and one man, all like minded knitters who love knitting socks. From all walks of life. Nurses, teachers, surgeons, college professors, airline pilots, housewives, yarn store owners, lawyers, professional dog competitors, and on and on. All with one goal in mind for 5, almost 6 days. Socks and fun. You don’t have to be an expert knitter. In fact, you don’t even have to knit socks. Both years I met at least one person who had never knitted a sock, and one didn’t plan on learning.

I want to go back right now!

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April 14, 2009

Blue Moon Fiber Arts, Camp KnittyhaHA, Sock Camp, STR

Camp KnittyhaHA

Well, finally, I am home. I am tired. It sounds crazy, but the last two days I really didn’t get much knitting done. What with the scavenger hunt, Fish Tycoon, yada yada yada, plus our big homework assignment not being due until Friday afternoon (which I procrastinated up until Thursday night), I used any spare moment to knit away on my socks.

Here is Ringo, the Drunken Party Monkey in his Yellow Submarine. He is in a kelp bed surrounded by sea creatures and little anemones. there were all kinds of sea creatures. As soon as we get the Flickr page up, all of our Camp photos will be available to view. Until then………….happy knitting!

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April 7, 2009

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Life at Camp KnittyhaHA

If you are going to learn to dye yarn, why not learn from the best? Here is Tina Newton from Blue Moon showing us how………………….

And here are my 3 hand dyed skeins of STR Mediumwt!

And here is Ozzie’s Monkey to be!

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April 3, 2009

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Melissa’s wedding and Cow Clogs

Ringo is the luckiest Drunken Party Monkey ever ! Not only did he stow away in my bag, he got to smooch up on the bride!

And here he is …………………………………………………………and here are my new Cow Clogs, Carson got them for me for my birthday! They will look great with my STR socks! The agenda for this afternoon—Lush at Universal Studios, then on to Arc Light to see Sunshine Cleaning, by the same people who did Little Miss Sunshine. Next Blog post—final touches on my “knit something from the sea assignment” and repacking! Later!

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March 28, 2009

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KnittyhaHA bound!

I have officially started the journey northward! Here are my crazy gazanias and their yellow-gazania brick road……………

and here is the border fence outside of the sand dunes. Amazing to see an actual fence on the border now. It always amazes me that the border is so close, and with the fence now you can tell exactly where it is, instead of the vague its-over-there-somewhere notion.

I promise new pics and a little blogging everyday. I am doing some serious work on my KnittyhaHA homework tonight, so until tomorrow, happy knitting!

…..join me tomorrow with photos of Ringo, the Drunken Party Monkey at the wedding………………….

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March 27, 2009

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Cool Knitting inspiration for free!

If you haven’t joined Ravelry yet, you need to check it out! Go to http://www.ravelry.com and join. It may take a day or so before they send you the email officially “inviting” you. It is “place for knitters and crocheters. Tons of free patterns. Say you wanted to do a Clapotis . You could do a search for it under the patterns tab. There are 10,314 different Claps that are posted on the site. You can scroll through them to see all the different types of yarns they have been knit in. Want to do a Baby Surprise Jacket ? There are 6,768 of them listed there. It is a place where you can organize your stash, projects, needles, search for ideas, join special interest groups such as knitters who like the Diana Gabaldon Outlander series, all kinds of stuff. And it is free. It is like my space for fiber fiends! My name on Ravelry is knitterati.

Also—another cool spot, the Twist Collective. GO to Twistcollective. com It is an online knitting magazine, great patterns. I am not sure how often they publish, I think quarterly like Knitty. AND Knitty, another great free online magazine with superb patterns. Join them for free too!

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March 10, 2009

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Lori’s has moved

To all of my knitsibs in Yuma—you know how we have to travel out of town for decent yarn, right? I was in San Diego last Wednesday and on my way home I decided to stop in Alpine at Lori’s Frames, Fiber, and Frills. When stopped at the intersection, I realized it was no longer there:(. But, if you turn left at that intersection you will see her shop up and on the right, with a parking area in the front. It is nice, cozy, and she is so nice. Stop in to see her when you pass through next time! Later!

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March 8, 2009

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FInished Socks!

I mentioned them in my new “list of things knitted in 2009” in the side bar, so I thought I’d show you pics. I pledge to keep a list of all things knitted in 2009. There are 2 Christmas presents for my mom that technically were slated for completion PRIOR to Christmas but didn’t make it. Those don’t count in this list. I also pledge to get all knitted Christmas items finished BEFORE Christmas. I need start planning towards that end right now! OK, so here they are—

The first two are the Incredible Shrinking Violet Monkeys for Karen, which are being inspected by Tang.

The next two are my Cloning Anemones in Tide Pooling. I love the was the one above pooled. Seems like most people don’t like the pooling, but I really like it when that happens. I think that in this pattern it shows the stitch pattern much better.

Off to work on the ridiculous goals I have set to be completed before Sock Camp! Photos to follow soon (I hope)! Happy Knitting!!!

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March 6, 2009

cat helper, Cloning Anemones, finished objects, Incredible Shrinking Violet, Monkeys, STR, Tang, Tide Pooling

Is it March already???

Yikes! It is already March? Hard to believe. I am know that I am WAAAY behind in posting. Just seems like there is not enough time in the day to knit, eat, knit, work, knit, eat some more, watch TV and knit, and sleep. I would rather substitute knitting for just about any of those other activities! But, the front flowerbed was overrun with weeds courtesy of the recent rains, and it almost got away from us. Here is what it looks like now:

The gazanias love it when you dead-head them and they loved the rains. No weeds for a while now, so more time for knitting!

Or for watching this little guy:

Meet Jackson, almost 8 months, who first appeared in my blog in July 8, 2008. He has grown a lot and crawls everywhere FAST. He has just discovered here that he can actually crawl under his excer saucer. He is quite a little guy!

That’s it for now, gotta go pay bills! Until next time, happy kitting!

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March 1, 2009

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Rangers lead the way!

Here are Billy and Aimee at Billy’s Ranger graduation. Notice the new Ranger tab on his left shoulder. He just finished a grueling 62 day training, and graduated without having to be recycled on any of the training phases (there are 3). Less than 20% of those who graduate do so without be recycled (aka failing one of the 3 phases). There were about 170 graduates, including 1 from the Chinese Army, two from Canada, and one from

Poland.

To say that the training is rigorous is an understatement. There are intense physical and psychological hurdles as well as just plain dangerous stuff. They learn how to walk up and down vertical cliffs (like Spiderman) with ropes, how to blow things up, how to parachute (Billy got a concussion when they “jumped” into the 3rd phase in the swamps of Florida), and how to do this:

These little dots dangling from the helicopter are actually Ranger instructors demonstrating how to get extracted from a “situation”. A bad situation. They got there by sliding down a rope from the helicopter. They later hooked themselves onto this rope and the helo flew away with them.

They also learned a lot of hand to hand combat skills, all based on ju-jitsu throws. Completely awesome, they throw each other around like rag dolls.

He now moves from Ft. Benning in Columbus, Georgia (BTW, they had not even ONE yarn store) to Ft. Campbell, Kentucky (unknown yarn store status). He will be assigned a platoon of about 40 soldiers (knuckleheads) who have just graduated from boot camp. His unit (101st Airborne) is on deployment in Afghanistan and will be returning in March sometime. It was an incredible thing to witness, this graduation—definitely one of the highpoints of life, right up there with college graduation or weddings ( even if Columbus is devoid of yarn to quench my habit). Later!!!

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January 29, 2009

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