February 09, 2006

Training for the olympics

The olympics start tomorrow and I have everything ready: pattern (check), yarn(check), needles(check), swatch(check), chocolate(check). Im doing a Weasley sweater following my fixation with the Harry Potter books. The pattern-recipe I'm using is the seamless raglan sweater by Elizabeth Zimmenman in Knitting without tears, I prefer this to the drop shoulder sweater of the movies because it's more flattering and will be easier to finish, as there are no seams. The large front R will be made with duplicate stitch, because I can't do intarasia in the round, fair isle will be much time consuming and I do not have the nerve to carry the yarn all around the body. The yarn I'm using is, alas, wool-ease, I recently bought too much holiday yarn to allow myself to buy good yarn. MC will be a dark dark pink and CC a dark grey.

The challenge for me: This is only my second sweater (so I'm not experienced), knitting a sweater in 16 days (the last one, for Raz, took me nearly 4 months to finish), doing an EZ seamles sweater (also a first), weave in all ends immediately afther I finish (I never, ever do that).

So remember our motto olympic knitters: Citius, Altius, Fortius. Do your best.

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