Let the Games begin

I think I might have mentioned before that I have a problem. If not, this is my confession. I decided to join the YarnHarlot in the Olympic knitting this year. She did it 4 years ago with lots of other knitters. This time I’m in. Will I succeed? Probably not.



I’ve decided to knit the Linden Wrap. This is one from my project bin, so that’s a good thing. The idea is to start when the flame is lit. Well, that’s something I didn’t do. I wasn’t about to wait until 3 am to cast on. I cast on around 10 in the morning on Saturday. You can keep at it until the flame goes out. That gives me 16 days. Only I won’t be home (during the day) the last weekend of February and I have other appointments to keep. Oh yeah and I have to work full time as well.

I’ll put everything else on hold for awhile and try to get it finished. Isn’t there something about joining and winning?

Meanwhile I’m quite fed up with this. Where is the nice weather?

Don’t do it doesn’t work

You’d think that after almost 40 years I should know myself pretty well. I believe that I should lower the number of projects that float around this house to an acceptable amount. In my mind that should be about 5.

Telling myself not to start anything new is like saying that I won’t eat chocolate any more. Two new projects jumped on the needles. How bad am I?

I started with Belle Nuit. Beautiful design and I should have known that a design by Sivia Harding wouldn’t be really simple. Beside the normal decreases en yarn overs it contains small cables, beads and the occasional purl stitch. In other words, not a project for a suspense movie.



And then I started with this. My only excuse is that this one takes a whole year to finish and that should be sufficient time.