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Olympic gold
Posted on | March 1, 2010 | 35 Comments
What to say? The past 16 days have been a whirlwind.
Friday night I finished the second sleeve and seamed the shoulders. I tried it on and knew what I’ve known since I started knitting – this is not my sweater. No, this sweater is meant for my daughter. Even my son commented last weekend “that looks like something A would wear!”
And since my daughter loves hoodies, that meant I had a hood to knit.
I started the hood Friday night and finished on Saturday.
Yesterday morning I started the hood and neckline facing.
I seamed the sleeves yesterday afternoon.
I wove in the many, many ends during the USA v. Canada hockey game.
Then I gave it a good soak and let it dry flat overnight. The vertical lines completely disappeared!
Words can’t express how pleased I am.
It came out just as I planned – I love Veronik Avery’s patterns! I consider myself lucky that my gauge was quite a bit larger than the pattern specified, as I was able to follow the size small instructions, for a size large sweater!
My favorite part has to be the small touches of red.
I hope my daughter loves it as much as I loved knitting it.
Today … I’m kind of overwhelmed. A bit lost, without a specified goal to strive towards. Never fear – I’ve already decided what my next project will be (and ordered the yarn for it last week!), but for a few days, I’m going to bask in the glory of accomplishment. And spin. I’ve really missed spinning.
I’m so glad I decided to participate in the Knitting Olympics. This has shown me what I’m capable of, or rather, what project monogamy can do! Although this is the only project I worked on for the past 16 days (I started a day late), I remained a participate in Life as Usual during that time – I went to work each day, I drove two hours to spend the afternoon with my daughter one Sunday, I read a 480 page book, I cleaned my house (I was forced to – we had guests) and went to a concert. I didn’t cook as much as I would’ve liked, or played as many Canasta games as I might have, and I have to give a big salute and thank you to SB for eating cheese pizza without complaint and being so supportive. I thank everyone who left me encouraging comments and had faith that I could do this. THANK YOU!!! We are all Olympians!
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March 1st, 2010 @ 10:00 am
Impressed, I am! Congratulations!
March 1st, 2010 @ 10:43 am
Beautiful! Nice work.
March 1st, 2010 @ 10:46 am
Wow! You did it! Congrats on the gold!
March 1st, 2010 @ 11:03 am
Absolutely gorgeous. Congratulations to you!
March 1st, 2010 @ 11:06 am
That’s fantastic and truly impressive! I’m sure your daughter will love it.
March 1st, 2010 @ 11:06 am
That is just beautiful! Yay you for sticking with it and having something wonderful to show.
March 1st, 2010 @ 11:24 am
Holy crap, you did it! And I say that in complete admiration, not because I thought you couldn’t do it, but because I know for a fact that I couldn’t have. Conratulations! I’m very, very proud of what you’ve accomplished.
Now you have to make one for yourself. :)
March 1st, 2010 @ 11:35 am
Wow – that’s an impressive accomplishment. I hope your body held up for all that knitting. It’s really beautiful and I love the hood.
March 1st, 2010 @ 11:52 am
That’s a gorgeous sweater (and I hope your daughter likes it)! I’m so impressed that you fit so much finishing work into the last couple of days.
March 1st, 2010 @ 12:23 pm
What a stunning sweater! I am having a difficult time grasping the fact that you knit it in 2 weeks (more or less). And you are a generous mother to give it to A, but the you had the fun of knitting it and the satisfaction of finishing it on time.
March 1st, 2010 @ 12:24 pm
Congratulations!! The sweater is an accomplishment on its own, but in 16 days you deserve Gold!!!
March 1st, 2010 @ 12:36 pm
Amazing!!!! Gold!
March 1st, 2010 @ 2:18 pm
Awesome – Congrats on finishing the sweater! Its cool to know that you can knit a fair isle sweater in two weeks if you set your mind to it :-)
March 1st, 2010 @ 2:34 pm
Score!
Great job, are you off to Disneyland now?
Oh wait, that’s after the Super Bowl.
March 1st, 2010 @ 2:37 pm
Congratulations, fellow Olympian! It’s beautiful!
March 1st, 2010 @ 4:09 pm
Absolutely gorgeous! Congratulations on getting it all done under deadline!
I got my two knitting projects done, but not my spinning. The last couple of days were tight to get the lace shawl done in time. I’m going to use the next couple of days to just relax and zen out with the spinning that was started.
Lucky daughter!
March 1st, 2010 @ 4:21 pm
It is stunningly beautiful! Well done!
March 1st, 2010 @ 4:29 pm
I am SO impressed, what a beauty. Congratulations! It was such fun to participate :)
March 1st, 2010 @ 7:25 pm
Wow – what a project! It looks so lovely. Glad to hear that blocking did magic.
March 2nd, 2010 @ 6:28 am
Wow, that is truly gorgeous. I look forward to seeing you at Cottontails! :)
March 2nd, 2010 @ 6:43 am
Oh my… what can I say that everyone else hasn’t said? It is such a beautiful sweater. Congrats!!!
March 2nd, 2010 @ 7:23 am
Project monogamy can pay such huge dividends – as you have so beautifully demonstrated!
Btw the addition of the hood really enhances the overall look!
March 2nd, 2010 @ 10:48 am
Truly awesome!
March 2nd, 2010 @ 2:11 pm
WOW I am very impressed – and love the finished jumper too – the touches of red are delightful
Congratulations
March 2nd, 2010 @ 2:12 pm
beautiful!!
March 2nd, 2010 @ 2:58 pm
Wow! That is one be-au-ti-ful sweater. And to add a hood at the last minute? That’s showing some true Olympic spirit!
March 2nd, 2010 @ 6:48 pm
Absolutely gorgeous! What an olympic accomplishment. The Buttercup and the Tempest will be easy-peasy after this marvelous bit of colorwork.
March 2nd, 2010 @ 10:11 pm
Oh wow! Love it! And you added a hood at the last minute? Even better.
March 3rd, 2010 @ 5:42 am
OMG. That is SO impressive. It looks good, it has a hood, all the ends are woven in, and you did it with a gold medal finish.
March 3rd, 2010 @ 11:51 am
So beautiful! I particularly like the hood and hems. Great job!
March 3rd, 2010 @ 12:00 pm
Gorgeous sweater! Kudos to another Olympian knitter!
March 5th, 2010 @ 9:20 am
OH MY…..this has got to be the most beautiful sweater yet!! I love the detail!!!
You always inspire me with all your beautiful knitting!!!!
March 5th, 2010 @ 10:24 am
I have given you an award on my blog:
http://knitpurlknitpearl.blogspot.com/2010/03/beautiful-blogger.html
Have a nice day!
March 5th, 2010 @ 10:56 pm
WOW!!! Look at that! Freaking amazing, that is. :-) Congratulations!
March 11th, 2010 @ 10:49 pm
First I must say how impressed I am that you knit this (with a freakin’ hood) in 2 weeks. And second, it’s just amazing E! I must admit that while I enjoyed the internet break, there were two Olympic projects that I was quite anxious to get back and see…this was one of them! And you did not disappoint. Simply beautiful! I hope your daughter loves it though I can’t imagine why she wouldn’t!