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Going for Gold

Posted on | February 27, 2010 | 2 Comments

So tomorrow marks the end of the Olympics and I can hear your needles busy clicking away to meet your goal for the Ravelympics/Knitting Olympics. I had entered myself in the WIP event, but never knit more than 4 rows ceremoniously during the opening ceremony.

Instead, I’m going for gold in the Super Secret Deadline Knitting Olympics, or SSDKO for short. It just so happens that I have two projects due the same date and they both need to be mailed off this Friday to meet deadline. Patterns need to be written for both by Monday. So needless to say, things have been a bit frantic in my world the last 4 weeks (with snow plus a sick husband not helping the stress level either).

Thankfully, with all my frantic knitting, my wrist (knock on wood) has been holding up pretty well. It’s been a year since I injured myself and I haven’t quite healed 100%, which made me a little nervous with such a tight deadline. Taking lots of breaks and trying to keep to a certain amount of inches a day has helped keep me in good shape. Also, I found that my wrist brace usually reserved for my karate lessons offers much more support than my knitting one. A big thanks goes out to DH for suggesting that one.

Good luck to everyone going for the gold! And here’s hoping for less frantic days ahead! I should be returning to my regularly scheduled program next week, complete with a new pattern for the collection too.

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