ravelympics! (no interesting entry title)

So, like every other knitter on the entire internet, I’ve signed up for a Ravelympics* team – mine is headed up by Julie. What this really means is that you guys had better like the way this project looks, as you’ll be seeing a lot of it in the near future as I try to finish it before the 28th.

I got a bit of a late start, waiting for the postman to bring my yarn, but I cast on while Mike Robertson was winning his silver medal for Canada, which I think made up for it.

The goal, for me, is to knit myself a sweater that I will wear often, and with a lot of things, which is why I’m making the Treeline Striped Cardigan, in boring blue and tan. I’ll look a little bit like Where’s Waldo, but hopefully in a cute way, and it’ll match most of the stuff in my wardrobe.

The goal is also to treat myself a little bit, which is why I’m knitting it with Tanis Fiber Arts’ Green Label Aran, something I’ve been secretly pining for after working with her sock yarn a few times. Rad.

*The Ravelympics, for the uninitiated, are a totally dorky challenge where you try to begin and end a knitting project over the duration of the Olympic Games. It’s more fun than it sounds.