K-WIP/S-WIP* 'n Olympics

*Knit-WIP and Sew-WIP

Finally I have stopped ripping out  and have decided to move forward with this ribbon scarf. Took a little while longer than I anticipated to get back into this knitting thing. See this post for the opening moves.

 

Here it is - all 72 cm. of it - almost exactly half way there. If you look very closely you can see a white thread running horizontally though it - near the needle. "Necessity is the mother of ..." and all that; knitting with this slippery ribbon means that you can't go back and pick up stitches if you make a mistake. Well, I can't anyway.  Three times I have had to unravel all - right back to the beginning to start all over again; I thought my world would not be a happy place if I made an unrecoverable error after I had knit 60 cm or so!  I came up with the bright idea of threading a piece of string through the stitches on the needle so that the string would act as a holder for the stitches - every 5/6 cm I slide it out and move it up so that a few rows is all that I can lose. Like having a net under the tightrope.

 

I am also sewing today - even though my mind keeps wandering back to the K-WIP. I have to get some kids' bags done by early October for a carft table at my niece's school, and with September pretty much taken up with holiday (YES!), I thought I better get a move on. So here is the S-WIP:

 

 

This collection of cuttings will end up being 4 little bags - I have cut the owl and the turtle out of the same fabric that is peeking out on the far left and have used Bondaweb to put them in place - I will zigzag around them; the horse (maybe zebra?) was a purchased applique so it was iron-and-go. The rectangles with the owl and the zebra will become pockets and the turtles will be appliqued directly onto the front of one of the bags. The pretty dotted fabric is the lining; I was going to make a sun dress out of this but then there was no summer and so there was no sun dress. Not really my colour anyway, but I thought it was so pretty.

 

 

OLYMPICS 2008

I got into Beijing waaaaay late this time - it was the end of the second week before I really started to pay much attention. My favorite person has got to be the little kid Brit diver - Tom Daley. What a pumpkin! So talented and so not into himself. 

  <-----   Tom Daley - Brit sweetie  Olympic diver

The debate was on last evening about whether THE Olympian of these games should be Bolt or Phelps. Now there's a tough one! I agreed with everyone's opinion regardless of which one people were picking.(On the news this morning there were comments about Bolt showboating - what is it about human nature that makes someone, somewhere, have to come up with the negative comment)? Go for it, Mr. Bolt - if you can run faster than anyone else on the planet, and you can make it look exciting - then hey - GO FOR IT, BABY!

 

 

So - off to cut out some interlining - perhaps I will stroke the K-WIP on my way to the interlining stash. ;o)

Comments

[Jo]

I confess I've been an Olympic nut this year - it's been deeply exciting. Roll on 2012...

The scarf looks well worth the troubles you've had with it :)

[cherrie]

Good on you for working out the white string idea so that you can finish this beautiful scarf. Does it feel soft? Cherrie

[Judy]

The scarf does feel soft - and the photo does not do the ribbon "yarn" justice - it shimmers. I will have to make a full recovery before I attempt to knit something else with it, though! x