So, when I was little, my family went camping every year, mostly in the
Adirondacks, but also in Maine, New Brunswick,
Nova Scotia and
PEI (Anne of
Green Gables lived here!), even to
Nickerson State Park on Cape Cod (great
bike trails on the Cape). My Mum was a school teacher before she retired and my Dad was a baker, so he would close up the bakery for three weeks and off we would go. How fun! We were quite the sight, I'm sure, especially when all my brothers came along too (I have four older brothers). We would use the van that my father had for the bakery, pull a tent trailer, bring a kayak (a
Folboat that we made ourselves! it was
untippable, great for kids, but really easy to paddle, too), a little Sunfish sailboat, bikes for everyone, army surplus hammocks and a huge tarp... Crazy,
lol.
We stopped going when I was about 13 or so (parents divorced, I was the only one left at home with Mum at that point) but I have great memories. Which means I now drag my family camping!
We're heading up to camp near
Camden, Maine the end of June for a week and are running around finding equipment. We've been with Bella before, but now that
Conall is along, too, we needed a bigger tent (hooray for
LL Bean) and a rooftop carrier for our little Subaru
WRX (no SUV or mini-van for us) (though if we had another kid we'd need one [I like
this one]. Why do they make car seats so darn HUGE? no way could we fit three in the back seat,
argh; I'm sure some manufacturer could come up with a smaller but still safe car seat in the name of decreasing the number of
SUVs on the road for goodness' sakes... I digress,
lol). Our sea kayaks will
continue to languish in the garage, alas, until the kids are bigger (very
tippy, unlike the
Folboat).
I'm having all sorts of fun making lists of things to bring. I'm a list kind of gal,
lol. And I'm knitting, too, just in case it's cold. Check it out:
Little Man
Conall in a funny bulky sweater. I used Knit Picks
Wool of the Andes Bulky in Cape Cod and a basic sweater pattern from the Yarn Girls
Guide to Kids' Knits, and it knitted up
lickety split. (Good thing what with my short attention span for knitting projects...). It even has simple ribbing throughout,
whoo-
hooo. And I actually sewed it together! Good grief! I hate seaming!
LOL. I'm making one for Bella from the same yarn, a raglan sleeve sweater (for some reason I find raglan seams easy to sew neatly). Hooray for bulky yarn for kids sweaters. And hooray for Knit Picks for making affordable yarn - nice not to spend a
fortune for a sweater that the baby is just going to drool all over anyway.
I made it as part of etsyFAST (etsy's Fiber Arts Street Team) June Challenge - how fun! I made one earlier using doubleweave pickup, but this one was almost more fun to make... It's obviously made of a mixed weft of novelty fibers. I used a chocolate colored bamboo yarn for the warp, but you really can't see it.
It is a custom piece woven for a customer and I really like how it turned out.
There she is. Not so bad in the end - I like the scalloped edges that Ms and Os creates. Does it look sort of blue-tinged to you? Or is it just my computer?
