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Ok, clearly I either underestimate my knitting speed or overestimate the difficulty level of patterns, because I figured I would take most of the rest of the Olympics to get Kris’s sweater ripped back and re-knit. I was wrong. I did it in less than 24 hours. It started out like this: Not bad, but […] I did it! The sweater is complete! I set in one sleeve and seamed one side last night, and finished the other side this morning.Ta da! (Modeled photo later once my photographer gets home from work) Things I learned on this sweater:1. I really love lace. Way more than I even thought I did.2. I […] Wow – is it really Day 7, or have I miscounted? ETA: Yup – I miscounted. Day 1 was Saturday. They don’t count the day of Opening Ceremonies. Anyway, I finished knitting my second sleeve last night while watching the very cute American men moguls skiers. Seriously – if I had known skiers were that […] Well, I made up for being a slacker yesterday – I finished up the front of my sweater!So, just the sleeves and finishing to go! Yay! If I do finish early (which is looking like it might happen, but I am not counting on it), I am trying to decide what I want to do […] So, the snow kept me home today, which means I had lots of time to work on my Knitting Olympics sweater, right? Um…yeah. I’ve done one more repeat of the lace on the front of the sweater.But I have an excuse for the lack of knitterly dedication – I got bitten by the baking bug […] I am about 20 rows from the end of the back section of the sweater. Shortly after I finished the lace and switched to the stockinette, I was checking something on the pattern and realized that when I started the pattern (you know, the second time), I goofed again. This is my cast on edge […] Although it wasn’t easy. So, at 2:00 this afternoon, I sat down with my yarn and my needles, and asked hubby to grab the camera.And wow, what an odd expression I have on my face. Of course, it was nothing compared to the look on my face a few minutes later, when I realized that […] Currently, we are T-4 hours and 14 minutes. I made my usual status spreadsheet, so I know exactly where I am, percentage-complete-wise, at every step. According to that, I will be doing somewhere in the neighborhood of 28,000 stitches in the next 16 days. And that doesn’t count frogging back to fix mistakes. My spot […] So, I finally decided just to scan in the picture from my copy of KnitSimple, rather than looking for one online.This is the sweater I am making for the Knitting Olympics, in the maroon/pink yarn pictured here. I have also decided that, as my self-challenge warm-up to the Olympics, I am going to have Kris’s […] So, I sat down last night to wind my KnitPicks Shimmer for the Knitting Olympics. Somehow, a few strands got twisted going on to the swift, and I ended up with a massive tangle. After fighting with it for a couple of hours, I finally got it untangled and wound. OK, mostly untangled. I did […] |
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