The Knitting Fiend

Watching figure skating sure does slow down knitting!

I cast on 11 stitches yesterday and over the two days I managed to knit a 45″ long strip. Why so slow? I actually had to pay attention while turning cables knitting the bobbles! But, the strip is small, so I finished it.

I folded the strip to form a ring. Because I’d cast on provisionally, I was able to grafted the ring shut. (This was a pain in the neck. I took photos, but given the time demands of The Knitting Olympics, I’m not going to show you how I did this.)

That’s all I managed to do since 2 pm yesterday! Sheesh!

Luckily, the rest of this sweater will be stockinet. This is a really unusual sweater design, so I’m going to make everyone guess what I’m doing next.

As to the Olympics themselves, Jim and I loved the 9 year old girl singing the Italian anthem, and the lavish dancing displays. His brothers, loved the Ferrari! (What do you expect? They jointly own a Ferrari.)

Of course, the Olympics aren’t about the opening ceremonies, they are about the events. I guess I should give my opinion on those– but bear in mind, I am a total philistine when it comes to sports. Who’s good? Who’s bad? Beats me. Plus, since I’m knitting, I didn’t pay attention to anyone’s names.

We rooted as the Texan in-line skater turned speed skater won his speed skating event; talk about a guy who is all heart!

We “oohhed and ahhed” during pairs skating. Naturally, we decided the American pairs skaters were robbed on points. (Ok, they weren’t robbed; I’m biased. Anyway, even they’d gotten more points they still wouldn’t be in first. Anyway, we enjoyed every skating pairs team we saw.)

It was all very distracting.

I ask myself, “Why did I decide to knit on a tight schedule during the Olympics? ” Oh well, there is still a good chance to finish! IfI pick up the knitting before the Olympics begin airing tomorrow. The first step I need to do involves counting and you know I can’t count and watch tv at the same time!