Finish on Friday

Insouciant is finished!  I did finish in time for the Camp Loopy 3 deadline.  Whew!  I got a quick lesson on the mattress stitch (Thank you, Eve!--it makes sense now).  I picked up the stitches and knit the neck on Monday.  Three times!!!  The first time I had two noticeable holes in the front where I picked up stitches.  The second time I picked up tooo many stitches and had a lettuce-like wavy neckline.  The third time was the charm.  I am really excited about it and need to start planning another one.

Now I can pick up my Boxy and start knitting on it again.  I forgot how much I like the feel of the fabric.  Still have 6" to knit before I start the sleeves on it.

Remind me next year NOT to start Camp Loopy.  It is a lot of fun, and the chatter does encourage me to get things knitted, but I have neglected so many things this summer that I wanted to sew and knit.

This week at work we had a two day training session.  The trainer brought lots of multi-colored pipe cleaners so people could fidget while she was talking, instead of sleeping or looking at their phones.  So I knitted baby hats!  Finished a hat each day and paid attention the entire time.  If it had been a longer class I would have started Christmas knitting!