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Victory is Mine!

Whew! Finished with about 30 minutes to spare! I cut it a bit closer than I wanted, but it’s finished! I’ve got the gold! First Aid by Kim Hargraves: Rowan 32Rowan Polar: 60 wool/30 alpaca/10 acrylic – color 6457 balls Size 11 needlesStarted Feb. 10th 2pm – Finished Feb 26th 10:33pm This was a pretty [...]

One Year Ago Today

It’s hard to believe that it’s my one year blogaversary already! Where does the time go? I’ve really enjoyed sharing my knitting and exciting news with all of you. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome and have given me so much motivation. I’ve met so many wonderful bloggers over the past year also, I [...]

Aerials

Last night, I was watching the women’s aerials competition. The women fly down a steep slope, up a huge ramp, and do backflips in the air, and then have to land it perfectly. Some of those women didn’t land so perfectly and went tumbling down the slope like rag dolls. Luckily nothing was hurt but [...]

Day 11

Progress for Day 11: Yay! First sleeve is finished. I wish I wasn’t too tired to cast on number two tonight. It will just have to wait til tomorrow. Hopefully I get a seat on the subway in the morning!

Day 7 – 10

And here’s a quick recap of Days 6 through 10: Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 I didn’t exactly get to knit as much as I would have liked over the holiday, but I can’t complain. Getting down to the wire, only 6 days left! The first sleeve is almost ready for the [...]

Day 6

Here’s my progress for day 6: This will be the last progress shot until Monday night when I get back to the city. Hooray for long weekends! I hope to have the right front and most of sleeve one done by monday. We’ll see. And I also wanted to share this photo that I found [...]

Knitting Olympics: Day 5

Here’s my progress after day 5. It is going so quickly that I think I may have to add another challenge to the mix – weaving in all those ends on my fairisle sweater. But I’m not going to jump to any conclusions yet, you never know what can happen between now and the end! [...]

Olympic Progress

Progress after Day 2: Actually got alot of knitting done Saturday while watching the USA women’s hockey team beat Switzerland. Then I got even more done while watching the Canadian women beat poor Italy 16-0 (a new olympic record!) Then I got alot of knitting done Sunday because of this: That is about 10″ of [...]

Olympic Eve

The Knitting Olympics start tomorrow and I am so ready. The gauge swatch has been worked, the cable practiced and the yarn packed and ready to go for Jersey tomorrow night. My fiance has a lot of studying to do this weekend, so hopefully I’ll get a lot of knitting in! So with the Olympics [...]

What To Do Now

So now that Hot Lava is finished and the Knitting Olympics are starting on Friday, what’s a girl to knit? I decided to start the Turtleneck Shrug by Teva Durham from Scarf Style. I had bought the yarn months ago during my trip to upstate New York, so it luckily didn’t involve any yarn purchasing. [...]

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