Posts Tagged ‘ravelympics2008’

Not sure where the day went but worked on the Sweater Bag for most of the day when I was knitting. Got to the end of the first round of the cable pattern of 35 rows and then realized I’d effed up the center cable… and then the side cable. So lost about 3 hours [...]

I’ve been trying to keep a diary of my progress and doing ok with it but am way behind with the photos to go with the posts.
Only the first post is posted so far (which explains what Ravelympics is), and I’m reminding myself that there’s plenty of time to take and post the photos but [...]

6 hours of knitting so far (broken up a bit with breaks here and there) while watching Battlestar Galactica Season 3.
Started round 1 of the Sweater Bag (first round after the 12 rows of ribbing) and am currently about to start round 17. Definitely not knitting very fast.
Half of the 100 stitches are involved in [...]

Didn’t get that much knitting done. Was so tired and exhausted that I went to bed early. Or rather I fell asleep on the couch and later woke up and moved into bed at 3am. And was too groggy to think about turning lights, ac, and etc off. So much for resolving to stop wasting [...]

I’m having terrible trouble staying focused on any one project. Tonight I dug out the Wisdom Skye yarn in the Maroon colorway that I scored off Ebay from Your Stash or Mine last month to check it out for the Sweater Bag from Lion Brand Yarns.

This picture made me fall in love with the pattern [...]

Played more with the ball winder today as I came across some of my ancient stash of acrylics that were partially used.
Found them while looking for the cotton dishcloth yarn for redoing the Sunflower Hotpad. Did it in 2004 from a booklet but neglected to notice that it called for doubling the yarn.
Couldn’t figure out [...]

Even though I had two pieces of knitting in the car, I didn’t do any knitting at all on the camping trip. Never got any true “recreation” time but that’s another story and it was still a good trip.
Though I was exhausted when we got back between 7 & 8pm Monday night, I got the [...]

Focused on plowing through the Icy Moon cowl as you must crochet the body first before any of the beaded edging.
Didn’t really work on anything else because I was also trying to get preparations done for the camping trip to Pinnacles.
 
Bound off on the body late Thursday night and set it aside.
I also worked on [...]

The Adara yarn from Elann came yesterday which means I could finally start the Ravelympics Grrlfriend Bag projects.
I casted on and got through the fiddly part. Perhaps it’s just me but Laura talks about it in the pattern itself too. It’s VERY hard to keep the DPNS (double pointed needles) from falling out after you’ve [...]

Today, I was made of fail for devoting anytime to knitting.

I couldn’t help it, the ball winder had arrived and I just had too much fun finally taking care of numerous half used ‘about to be a complete snarled mess’ skeins of yarn and winding them into neat yarncakes.
I even did the opened skein of [...]