Needlework Monday: WIPs + Back Home

Hello there!
It’s been awhile 😅. I was recently informed by a friend that I need to post so that I’ll get big and famous and can upvote his posts... right.

One of the projects I’ve been working on recently is a pair of socks. The pattern is Irish Oats by cabinfour on Raverly.

The yarn I’m using is Remix Light by Berroco (nylon, cotton, acrylic, silk, and linen).
The yarn has an interesting texture, not great for stitch definition, but goodness it’s soft.

Cables and seed stitch 😍

This past week I’ve been gone at Camp Eagle with a friend’s youth group.
I’ve been to this camp before, back in middle school, and that was.. not the best experience... Thankfully this time was sooo much better.

I brought two knitting projects along with me to camp, but didn’t have that much time to knit. I’d try and get moments while waiting for food or before bedtime, not that much progress was made though 😂

This is the other project I brought, a lace circular shawl.
My youth group leaders had gone to Peru and brought some alpaca yarn back for me!

Okay! Back to camp for a bit (I’d skip this part if you’re just here for the knitting, it’s gonna be long 😂)

Like I said, way better than the last time I went there.
I think a big part of it was that I really liked the group I was with.
I actually made new friends.. what a concept.

Another part of it was probably because I’m no longer in middle school, which I think many of us can admit was an awkward time. Ugh.

One of the things they had us do at camp was to write down something that we wanted to be, something that we wanted God to work on us. I wrote that I wanted peace.

I’m a pretty busy person. Most of that is my own doing, my many hobbies can take up a lot of time. Some of that is school or work. Don’t get me wrong, I like doing stuff but those past two weeks or so had worn me out.

Not only that, but thinking about what it means to be a Christian, I’m messed up and it feels like there’s a lot of stuff to improve and work on in my life. I felt/feel like I couldn’t work on one thing at a time.

I was so tired and I’d gotten to the point where I just. Wanted. A. Break.

I talked with my cabin leader about it and it was so nice to have someone who really really cared and wanted to have a conversation with me about what was going on.

I still don’t have all the answers, probably won’t until Jesus comes back, but I realized that I really needed to focus more on reading the Bible and getting more of a solid foundation before I tried to do things on my own.

Alright I’m finally done now! 😂

I hope you all have a lovely Needlework Monday! ❤️