{"id":49,"date":"2006-02-12T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/MamaOKnits\/2006\/02\/12\/olympic-update\/"},"modified":"2006-02-12T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T19:26:00","slug":"olympic-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/olympic-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not doing NEARLY as well as the downhill USA men’s team when it comes to times. I think it’s become fairly clear as we begin the third day of the Knit Olympics that I have seriously overjudged my knitting speed–esp. cold-finger speed during a blizzard. Until and unless I can finish a panel completely in four days I won’t make it. And as you can see from the previous post pic of my starting point, and from the update pic here of where I stopped Saturday night…\"\"<\/a>I’m not going to have much luck.<\/p>\n

I have learned some things.
1) I love Brenda Dayne and Cast-On<\/a> and highly recommend knitting to her.
2) I love that I knit Continental<\/a>–it does help with speed.
3) I hate purling Continental and think I’m actually faster purling British…but then adding Continental for color changes
4) I actually have an allery to this yarn.<\/p>\n

I love this yarn<\/a>. I love it tons because my husband had to call all over the world to find enough for me to make the afghan–it’s been discontinued. I especially love the bright green with which I am knitting Canada (oooooh Caaaaanadaaaaa…<\/a>I considered learning the anthems to the countries as I knit…and rapidly tossed that iden when I glanced ahead to Africa. See more below).
So I love this yarn, but I hate knitting with it. It acually makes my fingers hurt–there’s VM in it and it occasionally feels like it’s cutting me…seriously. I am using more lotion than I ever thought possible. I am considering reskeining the yarn I balled, and soaking it in Eucalen just to make it (a) smell better and (b) not hurt my fingers so much.<\/p>\n

And regarding Africa. I’m here to say that I may very well put that panel on hold. I may consider myself a winner if I merely BEGIN Africa. The rest of the world is quite nice and all, but Europe and Africa in particular are going to be such a bundle of bobbins…I’m not sure what kind of breakdown I’ll have, but a breakdown is coming for sure.<\/p>\n

So.
What have we learned?
First, I was stupid and crazy…not sure which order that comes in;
Second, that I don’t like this yarn (it even causes a caustic eye allergy);
Third, that I may flip the third and fourth panels so that, by the 16th day, I can be ALMOST done
Fourth, that I need to get back to knitting. I don’t want to miss the nutty people doing Louge. When is that?<\/p>\n

Tra la la…
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