For over a decade, one of my LYSs, Soper Creek Yarn, has run a Yarn Challenge, where they prepare kits of a particular yarn, and they challenge knitters to come up with something creative using that yarn – more can be purchased, but ONLY that yarn can be used. FOs get put up in her display window and voted on in store and online. I’ve never won, but for the last three years, I’ve enjoyed playing along.
This year, I knew exactly what I wanted to make with the yarn. Years before, I’ve laboured over what to make, never quite sure. Not this year. I had the pattern in mind, I bought the yarn, and I cast on later that night.
The pattern and work in progress will stay secret until after voting because thems the rules and I wanna play fair, but I can post pics of the yarn in cake format!
The yarn is Briggs and Little Sport, and it’s woolly and wonderful. It has that wonderful wool smell, and this probably weird, but I keep smelling my project. It has that distinct scent, wholesome, slightly barnlike. As well, I LOVE the colours selected by Tina this year (last year’s was rather challenging for me, but I guess that’s the name of the game).
The project is very much in progress. Looking forward to sharing pics in a few weeks!
In case you were curious, here are the links for previous years’ challenges
In The Rounds 
Thays a pretty cool challange!
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I agree! They do it every year so it’s always fun to see what yarn they’ll come up with
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What was the resulting 2018 project in the end? I’m so curious but I couldn’t find it!
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I can’t believe I forgot to post the finished object. I made a purse with a simple cable design https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Lterech/2018-soper-creek-yarn-challenge
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