Ravelympics Day #1

First off, to explain Ravelympics, you need to know that Ravelry is a fantastic community site for knitters and crocheters providing not only community boards for discussing our projects on but also a huge database of yarns and patterns for inspiration.

Ravelympics is an community wide event where people are making projects within the timeframe of the Olympics. For example, one event that was suggested by me and accepted: “Balance Beads”. That involves any project that includes beading the yarn. There’s also WIPs Wrestling, Hat Dash, Sock Put, and much more.

My eyes are bigger than my ability to knit (and turns out, free time) but I signed up to do a bunch of things and now let’s see if I do any.

But the first day didn’t start off so well.

I was so anxious to get started on the shopping mesh bag pattern that I’d picked after being motivated by Jen to start making some, that I decided to do one before the Ravelympics started (starts and ends with the opening & closing ceremonies, in Beijing time). But late Thursday night, I was nearly done and couldn’t bear to set it aside to be finsihed afterwards.

Perhaps you can see why now (Click picture for slideshow of more photos)

That was the Grrlfriend Bag by Laura Spradlin done in Roman Sunset colorway of Filati FF Sailor Yarn.

I only got the Roman Sunset color because I thought I needed a reddish color for a different project that needed 4 basic colors (red/yellow/blue/green) but the yarn turned out unsuited for it. I’m now SOO glad that I bought it because it’s really beautiful in knitted form. See the bottom of the bag below? Need to find a nice tank top sideways knitted pattern for it (sideways = color changes appear vertically and not horizontally)

I finished that Friday morning during breaks from work and then after work all my time went into buying the Tent Trailer with Dad.

So no actual Ravelympics knitting done on Friday the 8th.