I didn't make it...

So, I didn't finish my sweater for the 2pm deadline today. Rats. I was pretty sure I wasn't going to make it at 7:30 last night, when I had the front and back done, and about 6" of the first sleeve done, but then I buckled down (i.e. regained the focus I'd lost for the last week and a bit) and knit until 12:30, at which point I had almost finished the second sleeve. But, I've been working on it since I got up today and it's all seamed together, and all I have left to do is the cowl neck. So that's pretty good.

Here are my "lessons learned" so far:
1. If trying to finish a project in 16 days, don't knit for 2 days, and then basically stop for another 12 days. This will make finishing the project much harder.
2. Don't buy new yarn in the middle of said project - it will distract you into starting a new project, thus impeding your olympic knitting. And rewarding though starting a new scarf might be, it's not going to turn miraculously into your sweater.
3. I've learned that I can only knit a few rows after a day of working on the computer at school, but on the weekends I can knit almost all day. Clearly I should have taken Friday off school to knit :)
4. I've learned that I hate seaming and I should have started it earlier. And my seams are ugly. But I'm hoping that they won't show too much on the finished sweater, or I will re-knit them.

So far, that's all I've learned (I think). I'll post again soon with some "in progress" pictures and, hopefully, one of the finished product!

Day 6?

So, the count down clocks tell me I should be 30% done now (except for that fact that I'll have almost no knitting time next week), and I think I can say I'm ahead (I know, I'm cursing myself) of schedule on finishing my sweater! The front is half done now, so that's good, and tonight I'm having a mini-S'n'B with Justine, so hopefully I'll get at least partway into one sleeve... Still no pictures, but I'm going to take my knitting home to my parents' and do some digital photography this weekend, I promise!

In other exciting news, the KO are now officially in the news! There was a little blurb in this week's Time Magazine. I don't know about you, but I object a bit to the KNITTING Olympians being refered to as a "crochet collective". Grrr...

Day 3

Excellent progress here! No frogging so far... despite the fact that my gauge is a bit off. That's okay though, right? I can just make a larger size? Whatever, since it's worsted weight yarn in garter stitch on largish needles, it's totally stretchy, and hopefully forgiving. And failing that, hey, who said I was making this sweater for myself? It's all good.

I left school a bit earlier than I'd planned on Friday (yes, I was too excited to work) and cast on the back. By late yesterday afternoon, it was finished. Yes, that's right, I only have the front, two sleeves, the cowl, and assembly left to go. Pretty good, eh? Today, progress was slow because I visited Nikki, but I have a couple of inches of the front done. It's all good.

No pictures due to technical difficulties (i.e. not having a digital camera), but hopefully I'll have some to post soon!

Go Team Canada!

Knitting Olympics

Stupid technology... I tried to post a picture, but the whole internet died on me, and I lost the whole post so... no picture.

Anyhow, 9 more minutes til the KO begin! I won't be casting on until later tonight since I don't knit at school (yet) and I'm going bowling tonight (yay!) My plan as of now is to knit the cowl sweater from Stitch and Bitch, but without the howl because (a) I have no dog and (b) even if I did I would never put a sweater on my dog. The yarn is a bit icky, but it's the first sweater I will ever attempt to knit, and it probably won't work out, so I didn't want to waste good yarn money (okay, fine, non-existant yarn money) on fancy yarn. And the yarn is a kind of vague green colour, but it's better than the other colours I could find enough of - hot pink, purple, or variegated baby pastels.

Many thanks to the Yarn Harlot and all her assistants for making this work!