We'll knit in the sunshine, we'll laugh every day . .

I am borrowing from the Gale Garnett song with a title close to that (We'll Sing in the Sunshine), but that is what I have been doing here this last week in Baja. Our pergola is a great place to sit and knit!
I am working on (dare I say "finishing ") this KAL from last year, Fourteen carat.  I love working with fingering weight yarn but it takes an awfully long time to finish a project. The pattern is by Michele Hunter, and first appeared on her website, knitpurlhunter.com.
Here is a link to the pattern on the Ravelry.com. I am using sock weight yarn, as I mentioned. It is CoBaSi, a cotton, bamboo, silk and nylon blend that comes in loads of colors. It is available at Weedy Creek Yarn, of course 🤗

Scoreboard KAL

The Nebraska Cornhuskers last game of the season was a bowl game played on December 30, 2016, and here it is March of 2017. I do not have a good excuse for waiting so long to finish this Knit-along. I will blame it on the lackluster performance of the team and the generally apathy I felt toward football by the end of the season. I know, I am not a very good fan. Since posting about the ten-stitch blanket and my WIPs last week, I decided it is time to make those works in progress into finished objects. The scoreboard KAL had the least amount of work to finish, so I did it!
This KAL is sponsored by Skacel Knitting, one of the vendors we use at Weedy Creek Yarn. The idea is to keep track of the football season of your favorite team. When you are finished you have a cowl! I chose the shorter version in which I knit two rows for every score, red for the Cornhuskers and white for the opposing team. The black yarn separates the games. You can see way too much white on this cowl! The longer version would have you knit a row for each point scored and would be a more accurate representation of the season.
It is always a bonus if you learn something from a project. This time I learned how to Kitchener in the round to join the ends. Not as hard as it sounds!

Are you ready for some football?

Today is the day to start your KAL scoreboard scarf! I hope you bought your supplies and are ready to go.
No? Well, you can always catch up next week. It is an easy pattern, but it may be hard to knit during the heat of the game!
Here is the link for the Knit along: http://knitpurlhunter.com/kal/
And, may the best team(s) win and may your scarf turn out just right!

KAL: Scoreboard

Skacel Knitting has announced a new Knit Along (KAL) which will start on September 3, 2015: Scoreboard.
Here is the link with the information http://knitpurlhunter.com/blog/?p=1648

This is a great KAL for football fans. At the end of the season you will have a scarf that tells the story of your team's season. You could pick an NFL team, a high school team, a college team, etc. and keep track of each game as you knit a scarf in your team colors!

Come and shop at Weedy Creek Yarn and support your team. If you do not see your favorite team colors, please let me (Joanne) know and I will order them immediately!