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.
Trying to choose between Jujuy and Lei lines. Both by Joji Locatelli. She is from Argentina. I’m playing with yarns on my project page to help me decide.
Trip Around the World or Triple Irish Chain Quilt
On the Spice Market with Melanie Berg!! Just the name makes me think of Morocco or the Middle East where I dream of visiting markets smelling of amazing spices, fabulous fabrics, and the people watching must be fantastic. Plus, the designer is from Germany!
I’ve been eyeing Amber Ale as a good soft shawl/scarf project. 🙂
I think Vianne by Andi Satterlund works – it is a French name and so it can take you to France. Vianne of Gontaut Biron, is one of the two daughters of Vital, lord of Montgaillard (France).
Cinnamon by Canadian Designer Elena Nodel using Malabrigo Rios
Size 8-9 girls 850 yds, she also has an adult version Moody if you want to make and adult version and a mini me version. That’s my plan! Too cute!!
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/moody-and-cinnamon
I would love to do a project inspired by the beautiful sari silks of India. I have been thinking about these cool, beautifully colored textiles all summer and this opportunity looks like a perfect time to let inspiration, and color, take over my life.
I have two pattern ideas in for project three: The Doodler or Exploration Station by Stephen West (He lives in Amsterdam) . These are perfect patterns to try new yarns, have fun, and meet camp requirements.
Pattern from Germany : Pool and Conquer by Martina Behm
Yarn from Germany: Wollmeise Pure
I am thinking of Norwegian Stockings: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/norwegian-stockings-to-knit But can I finish in time!?
I’ll be knitting Havsfrun by Anna Dalvi.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/havsfrun
I’m FINALLY making a Clapotis with BMFA Socks that Rock mediumweight
I found Etched Rio Wrap – sounds like the perfect wrap for watching the Olympics!
For the Camp Loopy August fabric project I’m going to do the Winterrose Wall Hanging using Moda’s JOL — very Scandinavian
Well I am going to do another Janina Kallio pattern – she is from faraway Finland and yet her designs are light and airy and seem perfect for the OH SO HOT NE FL ! It’s so stinkin’ hot – I can hardly stand to knit at all. I’m doing Shine for CL 3 in a new to me yarn JulieSpins. It’s my custom to try and use a new to me yarn for Camp Loopy. Sheri’s wonderful inventory makes that always possible.
Mel
Helen Stewart is the lovely hostess of The Curious Handmaiden podcast. She is also a pattern designer. For anyone not located in Great Britain, her Radiance Shawl is gorgeous and would fit the project 3 category beautifully!
Seriously considering this one from a Finnish designer: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/frozen-silver
How about Celestarium, It’s the view of the night sky from the North Pole!
Royal Bloodline Socks remind me of some of the stitch patterns in my grandmother’s Ukrainian stitching books.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/royal-bloodline
Childhood Memories FTW!! Love the simplicity of the pattern, and the eyelets laid out diagonally. Can’t wait to knit this gorgeous shawl.
I’d love to cast on for Glenfiddich! The pattern makes me think of lovely Scotch whisky, and the designer is from Hungary 🙂
I’ll be making Emiliana. Designer is from Germany. Seems like there are an awful lot of talented German designers.
I reserve the right to change my mind before August 1, but I’m inclined to knit Cuddle Me by maanel (she’s from Belgium). The pattern is for a baby blanket and I may do it as written, but I may also make it narrower and longer for a wrap.
I am thinking of knitting Veera Valimaki’s Theme and Variation from The Book of Haps. She is a Finnish designer.
Echoes of Color by Joji Locatelli, she is from Argentina. There are two sizes; Medium 830 yards and Large 1405 yards.
I’d go for Toor toor by Atelier Alfa: Anne, the designer, lives in Belgium, and the name she gave to that pattern is the word for “flower” in Wolof, a language spoken in Sénégal and part of West Africa. And it’s a lovely sweater, too!
I may do a pattern b Stephen West ( he lives in Amsterdam ) or a Veera Valimaki pattern either Heartfelt or Folded . Or a Joji Locatelli pattern I haven’t decided yet .
Postcards from Sweden!!!
Here’s a wonderful idea! Doctor Who will sure take you to faraway places! http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bigger-on-the-inside
I’m going to make Lilli Pilli by Ambah O’Brien from Australia using Malabrigo yarn from Uruguay that I bought at Spring Fling. This works out perfectly!
I’ll be knitting Itaca by Stephen West, using Malabrigo, Baby Silkpaca Lace. Stephen said he designed this shawl while vacationing at Lido Itaca at Pineto, Italy which looks like a beautiful seaside town.
I’m doing Zick-zack scarf in Zauberball Sock Stormy Skies and Cranberry Blend because I love striped scarfs.
Although it might be tough to finish in a month, I hope to knit the Milk Stout cardigan by Theo Colman. I’ve chosen Cascade 200 Superwash in Como Blue, named after – I’m assuming – Lake Como in Italy. (The cables can also cover Ireland as my “foreign land.” ). I’ve tried to keep a water theme with my projects this summer, so at least I have a watery color!
Lake Como also has meaning for me, as there’s a Lake Como at the Jersey Shore, the area where I grew up.
Pagoda by Marilyn King, designed for Black Water Abbey Worsted. 🙂
I love Martina Behm, Susan Ascroft, Casapinka and Ambah patterns, any one would be representative of a faraway land, but the one that won out is Ambah’s Kallara.
I’m going to make a baby blanket in the colors of the Tanzanian flag for a missionary family living in Tanzania.
I’m going to do Shine by Janina Kallio from Finland. In the “solid” parts I’m going to incorporate a tiny stripe with the MC being the lacy bits.
Gotta be the pattern called On the Spice Market , by Melanie Berg. This beauty meets all the requirements. It calls for 929 yards, it exotic looking, and Pirates definitely stole and traded in spices because of their value.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/on-the-spice-market
I was wondering if the 2nd installment of Camp Loopy has been sent?
Hi Jo – I sent you an email!
My plan is to make the Rheinlust shawl by Melanie Berg. Foreign designer and pattern inspiration!
I’m making a Dance of Robots sweater for my nephew, using the English translation of the Finnish designer’s pattern, http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/dance-of-robots.
I like Solaris by Melanie Berg. So many possibilities to use up some odds and ends…. or just buy new ones 🙂
The Girl in Me is a recently released pattern by Mairlynd – Melanie Berg from Germany. The pattern uses 989 yds and is available on Ravelry.
The Girl in Me is a recently released pattern by Mairlynd – Melanie Berg from Germany. The pattern uses 989 yds and is available on Ravelry.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-girl-in-me
I got two skeins of Smooshy and am trying to decide between Veera’s newest shawl, Hazy Waves, and a fun striped sweater, Elfe, by Astrid Schramm.
I’m going to be making a blanket from Norway called Cabled Cradle Spread / Flettefint vognteppe.
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Am going to make Color Affection.
I will be knitting the shawl called Across the Pond by Mina Philipp. I will be using a Loopy Ewe pack called Five O’Clock for the main body and a Charcoal for the lace section.
Helen Stewart’s Radiance Shawl ( http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/radiance-shawl-2 ) is perfect for this challenge.