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Well, in case you haven’t noticed, the Olympics started last night. Not only does this mean that hundreds of athletes who like the cold or doing crazy things in Vancouver, but also that thousands of knitters around the world are participating in both the Ravelympics (Ravelry link) and the Knitting Olympics. What does this mean? It means that each of these crazy knitters has decided to tackle one (or more) projects that will be challenging for them to complete in the next 17 days. Starting last night during the opening ceremonies and finishing during the closing ceremonies.
These are my projects:
1. Ishbel, for the Knitting Olympics and (on Ravelry) the Lace Luge and Short Track Shawls events. I’m knitting it in a lovely grey cotton/silk blend.
2. The Big Honkin’ Bag, which is a true undertaking for me. I’ll be knitting it in a purple cotton yarn for the event Bag Jump.
3. I’m frogging this scarf which turned into a small nightmare and redoing it in crochet, which is how it was meant to be done anyway. I’ve already completed one event (Aerial Unwind for frogging) and will be entering the Scarf Super G for the redone scarf.
So those are my projects. Fingers crossed that I’ll finish them by the closing ceremonies. We started our projects together last night in a gathering of Team Knitgang. However, I was also bequeathed a lovely bag of fiber with a spindle in it by my friend, who is trying to get me addicted to spinning just like everyone else. We call them her “crack bags” because the first one is free and then you want to keep buying and spinning your own yarn. Dangerous. So far it’s fun but frustrating. Here’s a picture of what I’m talking about:
What else have I been doing? Well, I’ve been running, though I missed a day this week because it was blizzarding out. I’ll be a little behind on my counter (which, if you haven’t noticed, is up in the tab marked “run run run”). In school I’ve been doing lots of work as well, but Mike is here this weekend so I’m sort of slacking off. Hoorah for that.
