How fast the past three weeks have flown by. In between daily life stuff, working at a job and at marriage, staying warm and warding off a the flu (its cold really cold this winter here in NSW), I managed to work on a Ravelympics project. There were a few moments in the evenings when I had a chance to watch an Olympic event. My preferences are for all the sports; and I was thrilled to see my fellow Americans do so well, and even so for the Australians. But in all, I'm thrilled to see anyone accomplish such incredible physical feats as all the athletes that were there. Really, how awesome and how incredible to be one of those amazing human beings who can be so diligent and fortunate to aspire to great physical strength. I kept thinking back to the Cirque du Soleil show we saw last month and how any of the athletes at the Olympics could surpass the already incredible performers of that show.
In all that awe, I kept thinking that I should be doing more outdoors instead of sitting on my lazy ass knitting away...
I can be so harsh with myself sometimes. I can just hear all knitters reading this scorning me for thinking that knitting is not a difficult task. Believe me, I know it is and I've the pain in my fingers and back to own up to it. But somehow, all that sports on tele was just so much more. It seemed like true accomplishment.
Perhaps I should just call myself the "unsatisfied knitter."
And then I hit a wall.
The cast on stitches, and then some, that made it through the opening ceremony were frogged.
So after a few days of having 'walked off the course' I restarted my Ravelympic sweater with a new idea. Am pleased I did so.
Its not finished and no, I don't get a medal but that doesn't matter. I'm almost finished with my husbands poncho. I designed him a rather rustic one for when he's out on the porch for his evening smokes. After hunting around for the perfect wool to knit him a piece he'll 'wear to death,' or so I hope, I found the perfect alpaca wool from Bendigo Woollen Mills here in Australia. Its very rustic but soft, lighweight and warm and does not have pink in it. Gosh, I'd love to knit David a sweater that's both masculine and has pink...but he won't wear pink. Someday...Shall include snap shots of the finished poncho when it's done next week. Have been so thrilled with how it's turned out that even though am only 3/4 of the way through it, I've already began the pin-stripe embroidering with a 2-ply alpaca yarn in a dark Mallard Green. My inspiration came from a Peruvian poncho my mother got for me when I was ten--I wasn't allowed to actually use it as it was used as a wall hanging and eventually a bed covering when I took it with me to Paris back in the 80's.
Here's sneak view of the beginning of David's poncho.
3 comments:
I'm anxious to see the finished sweater and the poncho! That sweater is looking very pretty already.
I think you should get a medal just for trying the ravelympics. It's a clever idea, but I wouldn't be up to the challenge.
That poncho needs to be finished soon as our very cold winter--well, relatively cold winter for coastal NSW in Australia--is coming to an end and I wanted it completed and worn to death before summer. Oh well. Shall post fotos of it by next week. As for the Ravelympics sweater, that's been the best motivation to get me using up my stash. Am kind of liking what I came up with and think it will be a good thin layered sweater to wear when it's chilly outside.
Am not fussed that I didn't complete it, am more thrilled that I'm still married and my dogs and cats still love me too;)
I found your blog through Ravelry in a round-about way. It is very eye-catching. Nice pictures. The sweater is going to be beautiful.
Hang in there. It took a while for people to start commenting on mine. I still don't get but 2 or 3 regular readers.
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