I really love the Olympics. I love the national pride I feel. I love that female athletes are actually on TV. I love that my evening plan every day is Olympics watching. I love that I get knitting time and a challenge.
I know this theme comes up often; I love a challenge. I am a pretty active person, but I credit my activity to having goals and challenges. Without these I am pretty much dead in the water. So I am happy to add another challenge here and there. With the Olympics comes the knitting challenge of the Ravellenic Games. During summer and winter games, knitters and crocheters participate in what is called the Ravellenic Games. Named after Ravelry, the site that "sponsors" the event. As a participant, you can enter different competitions with the goal of making something (or multiple somethings) from opening ceremonies to the end of closing ceremonies. There are different areas of competition depending on what you are making.
Two years ago for the summer Olympics, I made a sweater and some other smaller items. That was when I only had one child and had some time off from work. This year I am making a shawl which is no small untertacking. I am making something pretty large with some pretty thin yarn. I seem to like to do that quite a bit. I have had the yarn for a while and I had even started a few rows, but it fell by the wayside. Now my Color Affection and I are on good terms and making great progress, since ripping out and starting again.
In the end it will look something like this, but with different colors:
Color Affection is a popular shawl on Ravelry so many knitters have probably heard of it. It is strange, but there are famous patterns. There are famous knitters and crocheters too. It is a pretty amazing world out there. I continue to be amazed by the talented people out there.
So for the next several days, I will be knitting and knitting (and knitting and knitting and knitting....) on this shawl in hopes of finishing it on or before February 23. Of course I have two kids, two dogs and a husband to also tend to, so we will see where this goes. Since the Olympics are in prime time, the kids are asleep for most of my viewing and knitting pleasure so that helps. Now I just need to get Stormy to sleep through the night so I am not so tired and and stay up knitting.
Are you watching the Olympics? What is your favorite sport? What do you do while watching?
I know this theme comes up often; I love a challenge. I am a pretty active person, but I credit my activity to having goals and challenges. Without these I am pretty much dead in the water. So I am happy to add another challenge here and there. With the Olympics comes the knitting challenge of the Ravellenic Games. During summer and winter games, knitters and crocheters participate in what is called the Ravellenic Games. Named after Ravelry, the site that "sponsors" the event. As a participant, you can enter different competitions with the goal of making something (or multiple somethings) from opening ceremonies to the end of closing ceremonies. There are different areas of competition depending on what you are making.
Two years ago for the summer Olympics, I made a sweater and some other smaller items. That was when I only had one child and had some time off from work. This year I am making a shawl which is no small untertacking. I am making something pretty large with some pretty thin yarn. I seem to like to do that quite a bit. I have had the yarn for a while and I had even started a few rows, but it fell by the wayside. Now my Color Affection and I are on good terms and making great progress, since ripping out and starting again.
In the end it will look something like this, but with different colors:
So for the next several days, I will be knitting and knitting (and knitting and knitting and knitting....) on this shawl in hopes of finishing it on or before February 23. Of course I have two kids, two dogs and a husband to also tend to, so we will see where this goes. Since the Olympics are in prime time, the kids are asleep for most of my viewing and knitting pleasure so that helps. Now I just need to get Stormy to sleep through the night so I am not so tired and and stay up knitting.
Are you watching the Olympics? What is your favorite sport? What do you do while watching?
