Day 15

Imagine cute silver buttons...and this sweater is done! I've decided that I'm not going to fight the ridiculous city I live in and just hold off on finding the right buttons. The sweater won't be wearable until next winter anyway. It turned out pretty well, even with it being a scrap yarn sweater. I finished before closing ceremonies as well! (I don't think I get a gold medal though)

Day 14

I'm done knitting! I finished up the collar and the button bands last night. I started to weave in the ends but I hate that part so I'm going to work on that tonight...or just watch Apolo Ohno skate....no, I must finish this!

I still have to finish the sleeves, find buttons, and block --all in two days.

Day 13

Well, I almost made it. I'm about three rows short. I could tear it all out and knit a row or two of brown where the sleeves meet (what I thought about doing initially but didn't think of the consequences of only having 200 yards a yarn even though the pattern says I will need 205 yards.)

I'm just going to knit a couple rows of orange to make up the difference.

Day 10

Whoops, I was supposed to post something everyday...well, I got sidetracked with Men's figure skating and curling matches! The sweater is coming along great. I like the color scheme I created and as long as the cream yarn for the yoke holds out, I'll finish on time.

Day 3

I finished the bottom part of the body and started on one of the sleeves. The pattern calls for only two contrasting colors, but I'm using three --I like the blue and orange together. I hope it looks ok in the end. I don't want to tear this out!

Day 2

I finished a skein of brown and watched Apolo Ohno skate to silver (and J.R. Celski win bronze) and Hannah Kearney ski to gold (and Shannon Bahrke win bronze).

Day 1

I thought I'd update my knitting on a daily basis to keep on track...I am knitting this sweater only when the Olympics are on at night to give myself a bit more of a challenge. I want to have it all knit and blocked by the 28th.

I have about 5 inches knit so far --I'm knitting the easy part though. If I don't get too wrapped up in the curling matches, I should be ok!

Ravelympics!

I've been a bad blogger, and knitter, but all that is going to change with the Ravelympics! I still have obscene amounts of stash yarn I want to use up and I tend to be glued to the tv during the olympics anyway so I'm diving in (or because these are the winter olympics, bobsledding in?) to the craziness.

I've decided to make the Pikkuveli sweater. It's so cute and it seems like a reasonable pattern for the next two weeks.

And because I haven't cast on yet I'll share a bit of what I have been working on while I've neglected this blog: