I'm working on Color Affection, the most recent craze to hit the knitting world. I cast on within moments of sewing on the last button on my new sweater (which also needs its own blog post), and it was my primary project at Squam. Unlike the blanket from last year, this one has a deadline, because it is a Camp Loopy project.
I'm in short row land, though that is feeling increasingly like a misnomer as my short rows are steadily marching along the rows, eating up the territory in their path. I'm on repeat 7 of 10 (or until it feels done presumably). I'm hoping for this weekend, but as the rows get longer, they also take longer. At the Art Fair, I bought 3 more skeins of yarn for a second one, which I will probably make in late 2012. it was funny seeing how popular this pattern was. I didn't see anyone wearing it at Squam, but at the Art Fair people were buying sock yarns in groups of 3. It was all sorts of hilarious to me even though I was no better than the rest of us knitterly sheep. Garter stitch in 3 colors with short rows keeps this from being a brain numbing project to one that entertains, and worked on largish (for sock yarn) needles means that it is quick! Though don't ask me how quick it is when I am plowing my way through the last rows.
PS. Gosh I miss Squam. I hate that I sound kind of meh in some of my posts, but the entire experience is wonderfully idyllic while being mind bendingly creative and energizing. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around it, so I tend to focus on the minutia. Stupid minutia.
