Ravelymics 2010

I didn't have time to blog the last 3 weeks because I was busily knitting on my Ravelymics projects!

I *finally* finished my monster "WIP Dancing" project - the 4 Season's Throw by Judith Shangold.

You guys, I started this in June 2008. Being the project oriented person that I am, it was like a monkey (or rather a gorilla) on my back sitting in my ravelry project page at 65% for months. I had no interest in working on the strips because the block patterns were boring, and lace is much more interesting. As a prize at the end, I allowed myself to stray from the pattern for the last block and I used Barbara Walker's Embossed Turtle pattern for the green square. Although I despised this blanket as I was working on it, I love it now. It is really warm and cozy to have on the couch. It also ended up bigger than I thought it would, each block is about 14.5" x 14.5" after it was blocked.



For "Short Track Shawls" I used - 198yds of Heaven by Christy Verity
The yarn is Madiline Tosh DK in Fjord, a bday present from my friend Patrice. This was the perfect project for the yarn, since it only needed on skein of yarn! I finished this in only 10 days. It would have been done faster if I had not had the blanket to work on. It's a great mini shawl and totally my colors! I'm keeping this one for me! I modified the border of the pattern, because I didn't like that the yo's did not line up with the body of the pattern.



I did watch a lot of the Olympics while working on these projects, but for the last week I was just getting bored by the NBC coverage. They were very biased to the American athletes and did not show scores during the ice skating if it wasn't an American (for the most part). They were jumping all around between 4 different events each evening and I felt like I had ADD watching :( Only towards the end did I find out Curling was on USA network. GAH! I've never watched it before and thought I would try to, oh well.