ravelympics: check-in.

So, this was what my sweater looked like at 2:30 PM on Sunday, before I left to watch the men’s gold medal hockey game.

And this is what my sweater looks like this morning, after casting off last night.

I had two rows of button band to go by the time the Olympics were officially “over,” and that’s fine with me. I’m not going to grouse over the fact that I didn’t have yarn until two days in, or explain that I’m like, really busy – I knit very nearly all of a sweater in two weeks, and that’s good enough.

The sweater isn’t done done – I still need to figure out how I’m going to close it (if anyone knows where I can buy snap tape in Toronto, you get to be my BFF forever), weave in all the ends, and do blocking, but whatever. It is close enough to finished, and I am in love with this sweater and can’t wait to wear it, and that’s what matters.

this is his drycleaning bill (four sweater vests)

I was all set to post on Thursday, and talk about how my sweater was going and how excited I was. I’d finished this much.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to sit down and write until today, and now I’ve knit this much.

I just really, really like this project, and the stripes are looking so cool as I knit them up. I’m excited to see how much I can get done before next Sunday.

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.