{this moment}

{this moment} A Friday ritual. A single photo (oops...maybe a few more this week) - no words - capturing a moment from the week (or in this case, the past month). A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, visit SouleMama leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

A sock camp morning dyeing yarn with DepravedDyer and Anna Zilboorg just can't be beat! 

Happy Good Friday!

xoxo Irishgirlieknits

{this moment}

{this moment} A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, visit SouleMama leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

Happy Friday Honey Badgers!

Surviving Sock Camp

It sounds like a vacation.





It looks like it may be a relaxing, peaceful week of knitting.

But it is not.

It is more like boot camp.

Where the requirements involve knitting, yarn, silliness, late nights, bacon at breakfast every day, classes, dessert with every meal, awesome awesome people, honey badgers, Twilight and Glee watching, and laughing with some of my best friends.







I'm still recovering from the week.

Seriously.

Where else do you get to play Knitting Jeopardy?



Or Knitting Boggle?



Or claim to proudly be a Jubjub all week?

Where learning to spin involves hula-hooping?



And Anna Zilboorg literally teaches you to spin? Or in my case, attempts to teach me to spin :)





There was a tea party.



And silly hats.











And some things which are better left unexplained.








Sock camp. Boot camp. No matter what you call it, it was amazing!

A bit like being in Wonderland!

Happy happy sock camping!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits

{this moment}

{this moment} A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, visit SouleMama leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

Happy Sock Camping!

xoxo Irishgirlieknits

Pre-Camp Fun!

Bainbridge Island.

Churchmouse Yarn & Tea.  That means I did get some Shelter yarn.  And then Mora ice cream.

Today, our favorite restaurant from last year.  Hudson Point Cafe.  That means bacon waffles with white cheddar.

And tonight, camp began.  And now the sock camp after-party...8 of us right now...knitting, food, drinks, Twilight.

Must get back to fun....but I wanted to share a few quick photos!

















Happy Sock Camping!!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits

500

Wow! 500 posts seems like a lot to me! When this blog first started, I was just trying to join more in the Knitting Online community. I was active in the Knittyboard forums (this was long before Ravelry) and it seemed like the next step! I never, ever would have imagined this blog would be what it is today. A place where I look forward to sharing with all of you. I have met so many good friends through this blog!

Speaking of friends, I still have a few more pictures to share from Sock Camp (the harsh reality of the real world still stings....can't we just go back to camp!)! Many pictures feature some new and old friends that I spent a lot of time with....The Whos! That was my tribe this year, and we had a great time!! Most of these pictures are from Scavenger Hunt day!


The Whos serving Marge coffee.


The very talented Sivia Harding teaching us a yoga pose.


Don't ask.


Of course we treated Cockeyed to a fabulous glass of wine!



Someone had to rock the "Paula" dress...and oh did SnBLeslie! Check out the shoes!!


Hanging with Josh out by the Totem Pole.



Why yes, that is me, teaching 20 sock campers the Slip Jig. Scary sight.


Love you EttaMae!



Look at that concentration!! We won the scavenger hunt because Tece and Leslie rocked the knit-off!

Speaking of winners.....

Congratulations to the winners from my Merrily Sock Contest! The lucky 5 winners are...

Angela from AngKnits (and I really wish I hadn't seen her current post with 5!! gorgeous skeins of Wollmeise...so pretty!!)

Knitter from Not Your Knitting Grandma

Jana

Zonda from Z Knits...and sews...

Kris from KnittingKris

Send me your emails (either irishgirlieknits AT gmail DOT com or on ravelry) and I'll email you the Merrily pattern right away.


The best part about the contest was reading everyone's suggestions for what they would like to hear more about on the blog! Thank you!! It looks like some designing posts are in my future (and fortunately, my next few designs aren't secrets!). I love contests, so I think we'll have a few more soon!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!!

Happy Friday!!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits

A very happy day at camp!

Just one week ago I had a fabulous day at camp dyeing yarn with Tina!! Loved every, every minute of it!



Of course, it was even more fun with Tina's fabulous assistant, Cockeyed!! Oh, I miss you already Debbi!!





It is inspiring just being around Tina's creativity!

So this time we experimented with overdyeing. First, my "uncomfortable" color from camp last year.






Can you believe it turned into this??? I love it!




This gorgeous yarn is just a bit too bright for me, but a very good friend gave it to me! Thanks Marcy!! See, I was thinking of you at camp!


I hope you don't mind that I turned it into this!



We also got to play with 2 STR blanks. Here is my color gradation skein.



I love this one too!




As much as I loved dyeing my own yarn, well, Tina's colors just sing to me! Yes, just a sampling of my new stash!

Here's to a fabulous week ahead! If you haven't entered the Merrily contest yet, go here. Loving all of the suggestions so far- thank you!!!

Happy Knitting!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits