Knitting Olympics

Olympic challenge update …

Hello knitters! How goes your knitting challenge for the Olympics this year? Are you on pace to reach the medal podium? Bronze? Silver? Gold?!! Well, even though I started 2 days late, I was quite confident that I would get my challenge done before the closing ceremonies this coming Sunday. Now, I’m not so sure … As they said in Smokey and The Bandit … “We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there … We gotta do what they say can’t be done!” To reiterate, my challenge was to design, knit, and write […]

Knitting in the Shadows …

Shadow Knitting may be new to you, but I assure you it’s been around for awhile. I myself have done a few posts on it in the past, and there’s lots of information about it all over. There’s books (search Vivian Hoxboro), groups (check Ravelry), and videos (look on You Tube). This post is about breaking it down a bit and hopefully giving you the courage to try it yourself. It’s an extremely simple thing to do once you make a chart as it’s only knits and purls. It can be done in 1 or 2 colors (or more […]

World Cup of Knitting!

For the next 31 days, almost the entire world will be focused on South Africa for the FIFA World Cup of Football (soccer for stubborn North Americans). As an homage to the most popular sport in the world, I am launching a World Cup of Knitting (or Crocheting). Seeing as this post will go up just before/after the first match kicks off, you’re probably just in time to get going on it. It will be much like the Knitting Olympics, but with a small twist. In the kitting Olympics you simply had to knit something that was a personal […]

Knitting Olympics – round 2!

Well, the Paralympic torch was lit in Vancouver last night, and that also signaled the beginning of round 2 of the knitting Olympics.For those of you who are new to this or don’t know about the knitting Olympics, here’s the basic jist of it. At the last Winter Olympic games, Yarn harlot, a well known knitting blogger, started the knitting Olympics. In order to participate, all you had to do was cast on a project that was a personal challenge to you – whether it be a scarf or fair aisle socks – when the Olympic flame was ignited […]

Back to normalcy?

Normalcy? What exactly is that anyway? I don’t think there’s anything “normal” about me at all. However, with the first part of the Olympics over, I think that I may be able to find some sort of routine to my days again – maybe. I’m not promising anything as the Paralympics start tomorrow and I have my own gold medal to win by finishing my sweater I started way back when. It’s funny, because I really can knit a sweater in a week, but the design was more difficult than I thought, dyeing the yarn took longer than I […]