It is time to reflect on my performance in the Ravelympics. Firstly, I have learned that I am no knitting athlete. I am better at over-committing to things than completing things and I have boundless optimism when it comes to gauge-ing how long my projects are going to take. That’s a nice way of saying […]
Today is the official start of the Olympics and therefore the Ravelympics. I have kit and projects, and I am all warmed up thanks to yesterday’s squash-knitting exercises. All I have to do is start. I also participated in an 08 08 08 swap. The deal was to send 8 postcards in exchange for 8 […]
I had some good Ravelympics training this week when I tried to bind off my first Hopscotch sock. I borrowed a knitting instruction book from a friend at our Tuesday night Sticks’n’String meeting, and commenced happily with the bind-off, following the instructions in what I assumed was the correct manner. Then: wierdness. Please excuse the […]
The wonderful Lisa Busby of Sleeps in Oysters emailed me today via Ravelry to ask whether or not I was planning on entering the Ravelympics. ‘What is this Ravelympics?’ I wondered, and quickly went off to search the groups, forums and project posts of the wondrous Ravelry. Shortly after this, I had organised my current […]