It’s time to start planning your August projects for Camp Loopy! (Remember – this is a virtual camp. You can participate from the comfort of your own home. No travel involved. We just like to pretend we’re going somewhere.)
Each month this summer (June, July and August) we have been knitting (or sewing) a different project. You can participate for one month, two months, or all three months. We announce the challenge approx. two weeks before the month starts, to give you time to pick a pattern and order. There is no official sign up – just put your order in and indicate in the order notes that you’re participating in Camp Loopy with us this summer. Of course there are benefits to participating, and we have contests, drawings, and fun going on all summer long surrounding Camp Loopy. We hope you will join us! Here are the details:
Project Three Yarn – The August Challenge: This project needs to be knit or crocheted between 8/1 and 8/31 (with a photo of the completed project uploaded to our Project Three Photo Gallery by 9/1).
Theme: Faraway Lands. The challenge this month is to incorporate a different country into your project. You can do that by using a pattern by a designer who lives in a different country, or you can pick a pattern named for (or celebrating) something in a different country, or you can pick a color that reminds you of a place in a different country. Your project must use a minimum of 800 yards in this single project. (A single project meaning one item, not sets of things like a hat/scarf combo, matching shawls for you and a friend, etc.)
Project Three Fabric – The August Challenge: This project needs to be sewn 8/1 and 8/31 (with a photo of the completed project uploaded to our Project Three Photo Gallery by 9/1).
Theme: Faraway Lands. The challenge this month is to incorporate a different country into your project. You can do that by using a pattern by a designer who lives in a different country, or you can pick a pattern or block named for (or celebrating) something in a different country, or you can pick colors that remind you of a place in a different country. Your project must use a minimum of 4 yards in this single project.
We are offering a 15% Camp Loopy discount for the yarn or fabric you are going to use for your project during “Camp Loopy Store Week” this month. The discount for Project Three, is valid for one project’s worth of yarn/fabric during Camp Store Week Three (July 13 – 20). To get the discount, you will need to leave us an order note on the order, telling us which yarn or fabric will be used for your Camp Project. We’ll apply the discount when your order comes through to us. If you’re going for free shipping in the U.S., please make sure that your discount won’t take you below the $100 free shipping level, or the website will add the shipping charge back in after we do the discount.
For additional Camp Loopy Benefits, Requirements, and FAQ’s please click over to this blog post, which details them all!
For those of you who signed up for Camp Club (new this year!), your Month Three Pirate Pack is in your cart and ready to ship whenever you check out. You are welcome to add your Camp project supplies to the order as well. We do have some extra Pirate Packs from Month Three for anyone who would like to get one while they last!
Ok – pick your pattern and pop over to The Loopy Ewe to get your yarn or fabric order in. We’ll get them shipped right out so that you’re ready to start in on the new project on August 1st. And keep working away on your July projects. We so look forward to seeing your finished photos when they are ready!
Did you see the June Galleries for Knitting and Sewing? Email (support@theloopyewe.com) and tell us which is your favorite and we will award a Reader’s Choice award for June. We’ll also be drawing from the whole June group for an award as well. Winner’s announced next week!
Sheri and The Loopy Ewe Crew
P.S. TODAY’S CONTEST – Share a pattern idea for Project Three in the comments below for a chance to win a $50 Loopy Gift Certificate! We’ll draw the winner next week.
I think the Chevron Baby Blanket by Espace Tricot (Montreal, Canada) would be a great knit. Would have to add an additional row of chevrons to meet the requirements but look how much fun!!!
On the Spice Market
I’m going to be doing Stripe Study, one of Veera Välimäki’s most popular shawls. 880 yards and by a Finnish designer. ^_^_v (So glad I decided not to do it for this month now!)
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/stripe-study-shawl
I was really hoping to make another Hitofude this summer, as its my most worn knitted item (well, after socks). I’m so glad the theme works for it. I was considering Mezcal from Baby Cocktails, but I think I’d prefer to work with fingering weight now instead of dk. Love Camp Loopy!!
The Waiting for Rain shawl would be a great choice for Project Three. It’s designer is from Vancouver, Canada.
Nuvem by Martina Behm! 🙂
I’m thinking quicksilver or (a large) red katana.
I’ll be looking at Sirdar (Great Britain) or Tin Can Knits (Canada) patterns.
Hansel (half shawl), a “traditional Shetland Hap Shawl”, has been on my to-do list for a long time. The time has finally come!
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hansel-half-version
I’m going to knit Hitofude with Baah yarn, La Jolla in London Blue. The pattern is from a foreign designer and the color of the yarn takes us to Great Britain. Hitting two far away lands at one time.
I’ve had this project in my queue (and library) for quite some time. Maybe having a deadline will help me take it from skein to something wonderful.
Susanna mon amour
by Natalie Volyanyuk
Drachenfels! http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/drachenfels
I’ve wanted to knit it since it was released. Now is the time!
That one’s been on my list a long time, too!
I am knitting Marklee by Elizabeth Doherty (American) in Wollmeise in Magnolie Medium — a German yarn in the color of fuchsia, a tropical color (Costa Rica, Panama — or any tropical clime). I will wear it in the winter and think of summer.
I’m probably going to do a Sweet Seventeen by Katrin Schubert, a German designer. What yarn should I use except a German one of course! Wollmeise fingering it is!
Talara shawl by Ambah O’Brien
Yemaya shawl by Ambah O’Brien from Australia 🙂
I will be using the Wollmeise in Orchidee to make my daughter Emma Lace Sweater. It will be her back to school sweater!
I have had my eye of a couple of potential pattern ideas from Joji Locatelli…and of course fortuitously she fits into the project parameters. Yeah!
One idea I am toying with is the lovely Rheinlust, by Melanie Berg. It so makes me think of the loveliness of rivers, lakes, and oceans.
I’m going to make the “Helen” Bohus-inspired stranded colorwork sweater by Amy Christoffers.
Yay Camp Loopy! I have been wanting to knit a Water and Stone sweater for a long time now.
I’m knitting Simple Lines by Maanel. It goes to 840 yards and is knitted with fingering weight yarn. Just have to see which yarn I can pick!
I think the Rising Sun pattern by Zsuzsa Kiss would be a great international pattern idea for project three…I’m considering it.
I have so many ideas that would work: Miette by Andi SUtterland which is named for a character in a French film; Be Kind by Veera Valimaki who lives in Finland; Halliard by Kate Gilbert who lives in Canada; Dragonflies Jumper by Joji Locatelli who lives in Argentina; Drachenfels or The Girl in Me by Melanie Berg who is in Germany; Juno by Natascha Hornby from the Netherlands….Now to decide
Stripe Study shawl by Veera Valimaki in shocking pink and navy
The Walls of Troy/Chartres Cathedral Maze afghan by Woolly Thoughts. Extra bonuses for multiple countries represented…Walls of Troy in what’s now Turkey, Chartres Cathedral in France, and Woolly Thoughts in England! (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/walls-of-troy—chartres-cathedral-maze)
Good Old Days by Hanna Maciejewska (Poland) looks perfect for August’s challenge!!
The Good Old Days shawl is perfect for the project grew theme.
Should read ***The Good Old Days shawl is perfect for the project three theme.
Joji Locatelli’s Jujuy would be awesome!
I’m thinking about Audrey in Unst by Gudrun Johnston. I’ve got three skeins of the beautiful Es grunt so grun on WM Merino DK. That should work nicely.
I’m bouncing between Across The Pond Shawl (Bahrain) and Nimm was da ist/Take whats there (Germany).
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/striped-esjan
I’m thinking about knitting an Estonian lace shawl. I’ve been wanting to make one for some time now. Guess it’s time to dive in.
I’m thinking of knitting Hitofude. The pattern name comes from the Japanese word meaning “a few lines” or “a stroke of the pen.”
Veera Välimäki’s Happy Street. It’s actually more than the required yardage, but the pattern is garter stitch and easily memorized.
I have decided on Bounce by TinCanKnits – hopefully this will be for a Canadian friend – and it is appropriate since it is a Canadian company…..Took awhile but I am going to make it in Bamboo – Ebb & Flow with cream
I’m thinking 3 Color Cashmere Shawl, Joji Locatelli!!!
I just finished knitting a lovely shawl called the The Shetland Adventure and it has me itching to knit another hap inspired shawl so I am going to cast on for the the Half Hansel. Shetland and Scotland to me, is a beautiful, magical and faraway land I have always wanted to travel to.
I will be knitting Paris toujours, a shawl pattern inspired by Paris, and the designer, Isabell Kraemer, lives in Germany.
I think the 3 Color Cashmere Shawl by Joji Locatelli is perfect for the August project!
Trying to decide between “Trip to Barcelona” by Silke Ufer Design and “Waterfall” by Annelisa Dione. But then I also have about 30 other designs open so that could change! ;-D
Martina Behm’s Nuvem
I found a project that reminds me of the stained glass windows in the cathedrals we visited in Venice and Austria and Germany….and I’ll be using Manos and Cascade, so lots of far away places! Oh, the Pattern is Painted Windows.
I’m doing Coconut Ice by Marg Low with a Japanese Indigo colourway. Total yardage is 4 1/3 yards of fabric to make the quilt.
I’m knitting the Breathing Space sweater from Veera Valimakii. I love the idea of buying my camp yarn this month to go with the yarn we got last year for completing the camp challenges as an accent color.
I’m planning on knitting a Waiting for Rain shawl in Lisa Souza yarn in Casbah. The designer is Canadian and the name of the color way of the yarn reminds me of exotic places!
Found a fun Skull Shawl to crochet for this project and in plenty of time for Halloween…. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/skull-shawl-doskallesjal
So excited to be knitting Georgie Baby Blanket by Helen Stewart. She is from London, and originally from Australia.
Two of my favorite designers are Joji Locatelli and Melanie Berg, and both fit as they live outside the US. I’m in the mood for a shawl, so now the hard part – deciding which one to knit and which yarn to pair with it 🙂
I was thinking of Stephen West’s Exploration Station or Barndom.