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<\/a>Ravelry is having it’s own simultaneous competition, in which individuals challenge themselves in a variety of fun events.\u00a0 For myself I leapt into the lead during the opening ceremony by entering the Frogging Trampoline and finally frogging my beaded cape which had been lying since March 2011 look at me accusingly.\u00a0 I loved the pattern, but I’ve finally had to conceed that the yarn I was using didn’t want to be that project. I’ve already got my medal for that!<\/p>\nI’m also trying to finish my ‘Jan Sweater’ (as part of the WiP Wrestling, or I could put it in for the Sweater Triathalon though the yarn itself is about a week too young to qualify for the Syncronised stash busting as I bought it at KnitNation last year).<\/p>\n
<\/a>A jumper for all seasons?<\/p><\/div>\n
I’m thinking of renaming the project from ‘August Sweater’ to ‘Calendar sweater’ as I have now being working on it longer than a year!\u00a0 This is the sweater I’m doing in the Portuguese method of knitting (which is great for my hands) and I’m really enjoy it.\u00a0 I particuarly love the fact that every time I pick it up I am reminded of the meeting I gatecrashed to meet a fabulous group of people – including strikstrik who taught me the method, V (who has been mentioned previously) and *the* Stephen West!<\/p>\n
I’m also trying to design, make, write up and publish a ‘shawl’ in the three weeks of the olympics.\u00a0 It’s going to be more of a ‘receipe’ than a ‘stitch by stitich’ pattern.\u00a0 The inspiration for this is the lack of relatively easy ‘confident beginner’ patterns that aren’t rafts of SC or DC.\u00a0 I wanted something that had a bit of interest (visually and mentally), that was unisex and could be easily modified without being too hung up on the ‘precision’.\u00a0 I’ll be entering this in the Shawl Sailing, Single Skien Sprint and possibly Balance Beads. I’m using a ball of Schoppel-Wolle Zauberball in fuchsienbeet that Needlemania (who I met for KnitNation 2011) sent me at Christmas.\u00a0 I’ve made a reasonable start…<\/p>\n
<\/a>sneak peak..<\/p><\/div>\n
Gosh, I’ve just realised how involved KnitNation 2011 is in my choices – the yarn, the techniques, the people!<\/p>\n
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While I got a few days of what currently constitutes ‘normal’ for my hands last week, this week they have been particularly difficult.\u00a0 I’ve got a date for my scans though – next Tuesday evening, so I’m hoping something comes … Continue reading