It's Knitting Adventure #2 for July

 PJKnits is off to Hoffman Estates, IL for the Frivolous and Frugal/3Ply Podcast Mini Meet-up.

If you are in the Chicago area this weekend, stop on by and bring your knitting!

In Case You Want More

 of Meg Swansen's Knitting Camp, check out episode 99 of PJKnits to hear all about it.

You can watch it by clicking here

Playing Catch-Up

 Finally caught up on my squares for last Sunday while I was at camp and this week.

Only one more Sunday in July!  What?!

It's A Wrap!

 That's it for another year of Knitting Camp.

Thanks for stopping by!

Schoolhouse Press

Every year, Schoolhouse Press carves out a space next to the classroom, so we can shop and check out just a bit of their knits by EZ, Meg and Cully.

Enjoy!

 

Jaw Dropping Show and Tell

 Show and Tell is held every day and is optional.  This year, we got to choose the day, we wanted ( I chose Friday to get it over with early).  Amy for the first day, read from and showed on screens, our sheet telling a bit about our Show and Tell, while we walked around the room showing the campers.

Each day, I made lots of notes, on what I needed to look at a bit more closer.  The ones below are just a smattering of what I could get pictures of.

Rosemary came all the way from London, England and was such a delight to talk to.  Her knitting was amazing!

Bridget has been doing mitered blankets for her grandkids with their favorite colors.

An amazing sweater and a wedding shawl.

Fair Isle Mitts

The cutest hat for kids and for chemo patients.

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And well, the hit of camp, Jane's Shadow Knitting.

There was so much more, but the pics just were not worthy of the greatness of the knit, and Janine Bajus aka the Feral Knitter, showed a couple of new designs, but I'm not sharing at this time, until they are published (stay tuned though, when they are)

Camping Days

 If you have never met Meg Swansen, you must!  She is the kindest, smartest knitter alive.  She learned at the knees of her mother Elizabeth Zimmermann, (who I never met in person, but revived my knitting 35  years ago, when I stumbled upon her on PBS, and then realized that there was a knitting camp just 5 short hours away, 10 years later being done by her daughter).

Meg gives the best hugs and does a pretty good job of remembering your name.  You just have to soak up everything that she says and if not, come back 20 times more, just to get it right!!

**I now go to 2.75 where the content is a bit different than the 1 and 2 camps/ combined is.  I believe the first camp, has Meg still teaching all things EZ/Meg including all the stuff a knitter needs to know, but never knew they should.**. I, also, believe the Oft-timers is similar to ours, but with some variations.

Morning camps start (after a hot breakfast) with Meg answering questions from those sent in and questions from the basket during camp.  

There may be some camper mini sessions too, which there were this time from Susan, Janine, Linda, Amy and others.  These are some techniques they have developed to make our knitting life better.

During camp, you can knit on whatever you like, and in 2.75, I like to knit on something mindless, so you can knit, listen and most definitely put down so as not to lose your place.

Tomorrow Show and Tell - prepare pick up your jaw from the floor!

I'm Home

 Knitting Adventure #1 for July - Meg Swansen/Schoolhouse Press Knitting Camp 2023

Over the next few days, the blog is going to be all about Knitting Camp!  And lets just say this up front, if you ever have thought about going, make it happen next year!  Times awasting.

I arrived on Thursday, it took me about 5 1/2 hours and since I had time to kill before check-in, I headed to Weber Farms for my cheese curds and then found the Starbucks.  Heaven.

Fresh cheese curds, a drive thru for ice cream (I am sure it is from their farm's milk), milk and all sorts of cheeses.

 Made my way to the hotel a little early where, I just had to wait about 10 minutes for my room to be ready.  As I was traveling/rooming alone this year, I got to spread my sweaters and such out on the second bed to flatten out and pull from for wearing a day.  I'll spare you the bed pics.

Went down to the "Living Room", as we call the area outside the classroom, where we would gather at night, early morning coffee and in between meal snacks. 

Thursday night was just a gathering before dinner outside here, then into the dining room for introductions and dinner.  Camp includes our hotel room for all weekend long, dinner Thursday night, Friday through Monday hot breakfast (served buffet style), lunch Friday through Sunday, and snacks for the same period in the morning.

After dinner, we head into the classroom to claim our spots, the camp tote bag, a pen, notetaking paper and a folder with the brown book page, payment paper for items we buy, a nice little booklet and a list of the campers with their email addresses.  A very nice idea.

The classroom is so very well thought out, whomever is speaking is on mic so everyone can hear, a video camera zooms on techniques to be shared by Meg or Amy or any of the campers.  This year I sat in the back with my Susan Rainey of The Rainey Sisters (lets just say to sit and soak up her knitting knowledge is worth the price of camp) and Dorothy and her service dog ( of which I learned a bit of how to request to meet her dog.

Tomorrow’s blog - Knitting Camp takes off, prepare to have your mind blown!

Knitting Adventures

 I'm off to Knitting Camp, see you next week!!

Episode 98: PJKnits Shawls, Sweaters and Adventures

 The latest episode of PJKnits is up on You Tube and you can watch it by clicking here

Weekend Wrap-Up

 It continues to be wild around here at Chez PJKnits!  Just got back today from Iowa for  a long weekend with all my grandkids, and celebrating the oldest and the youngest grands birthdays.

The kids introduced me onto these houses they got at Ikea.  Who would have known that color houses would be so much fun.  I may have just found something I might like to create just for me.

In between all the fun, I caught a few minutes out on the deck to knit a bit on my next Colorshift.  This one is for my oldest granddaughter.

It was beautiful outside on Saturday, so you can see why I went to the deck.

I managed to sit down tonight and do my square for this week, although, I was a bit antsy while knitting it.

Or maybe, just thinking about the next knitting adventure coming up on Thursday for Meg Swansen's Knitting Camp!

Finally Finished Friday

 I can see why these shrugs are so much fun!  Mine is a paid for pattern by Carina Spencer and is called Colorshift.

You can totally use up a lot of souvenir onesy skeins in PYS.

It is so versatile too, yes, perfect for Winter as a snood.

But perfect to throw in your tote purse for when heading into restaurants where the AC is always kicked up.

I love it so much that I have cast on another one from onesy skeins from PYS.  This is totally my new take-a-long in public knitting.

The color possibilities are endless!!