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Ruminations on knitting at 3 am

ruminations on knitting at 3 a.m.

Tag Archives: ravelympics

Girls Burning Yarn

Excuse my absence from the blog: I’ve been too ashamed by my complete failure at the 2008 Ravelympics to show my face. I’m still less than half done with the Bamboo Garden scarf.
But I learned my lesson: knitting a complicated, double-knit, DK-weight scarf in two weeks is not possible when you have six relatives [...]

And she’s off!

My Ravelympics project is off to a slow start, but I think I’m starting to hit my stride. I’m really going to have to pick up the pace if I want to finish it in time.

I designed a bamboo motif for the double-knit scarf—appropriate, since the yarn is made of 100% bamboo. I have seven [...]

Ravelympics, here I come!

Don’t you just love those clever folks over at Ravelry? They’ve come up with the 2008 Ravelympics, a sort of knitting olympics, where the goal is to cast on and finish a project during the 17 days of the Summer Olympics.
As a proud Angeleno, I am playing for Team LaLa Land in the event [...]

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