I won gold! I could make a bunch of Cutting Edge II: Going for Gold jokes, but I'm not! My Nereids crossed the finish line with almost an entire twenty-four hours to spare. Okay, so it was more like twenty hours to spare. But still! I finished! Over the last few days, it's been moments of "I totally have time, what am I worried about?" to moments of "Ho shit, never gonna finish!"
That was fun. I've long been a believer in the power of online competition with no actual prize but a couple of cool graphics, and the Ravelympics didn't disappoint. There's just a sense of community and community accomplishment. Gives me warm fuzzies.
Now, for the beauties themselves:
They're current;y having a nice soak, as the yarn was a little grubby to start with and I didn't think to wash it beforehand. The Pomatomus stitch pattern is so simple and so intuitive. The only thing that gave me trouble was changing between pattern repeats, because I overlooked a line of instructions in the pattern. And then I reversed the pattern for the other glove. I'm actually quite proud of the fact that you can't tell which one is the reversed one. The thumb gusset was also a bit of an adventure.
Ooooh, they are so pretty! I loves them! Everyone who sees them covets them instantly. My mom keeps hinting that she'd like a sweater in the stitch pattern - firstly, no, and secondly, no. She'd look like Namor. And these already have a deserving recpient, which means I have to haul my ass down to the post office soon. Bleh. First will finish the little presents for my girlfriend and then will just make one big trip, yay.
Speaking of big trip, my next big challenges are getting all my WIPs finished so I'm not hauling them all down east with me, and finding some way to transport my stash. I may ask a friend to be a yarn-mule for me.
Speaking of yarn, my mom has this habit of calling all yarn 'wool' and it's kind of starting to bug me.
Speaking of bugging me, there was a moth in my bedroom the other night and I went all Rambo on its little mothy ass.
Blogged with the Flock Browser
No comments:
Post a Comment