Gold Achieved

There she is in the completed hat. The i-cord is on and the ends are tucked and cut. I had to knit one side of the i-cord twice. I ended up going to close to the opening ceremony.

Above that is me knitting at my friend Peggy's house. It was a birthday dinner for her son Seth. I am working on the i-cord edging during the Canada vs USA Hockey Game. I had made the tassels earlier and attached them at the appropriate places.

I must have knitted the wrong way or something because I had to do some fancy stitching to get the i-cord to work out.

But I have been wearing the had since the opening ceremonies started. It needs to be washed and blocked. 

 But I have achieved the gold and it feels really great.

One More Day to go!

I stayed up until 12:30 on Friday night knitting. There was one row that I think I took out 3 times. But I persisted.

This morning I let my self sleep in, 10:30. I made some coffee and started knitting.

Just have to keep making those decreases to make the crown of the hat. Eventually had to put it on double points.

The crown completed ended with a 4" i-cord. There will be a tassel added to the i-cord.

Here is Jamie modeling the hat. You can see the i-cord end on the top. I still have to weave in all the ends. Knit a applied i-cord to the bottom edge that runs from ear flap to ear flap

I tried to post this last night, but had internet problems.

Coming into the Home stretch

I feel pretty good about being able to complete this hat. I only have the top and the finishing touches to complete. Securing in all the yarn ends will take some time. I have 2 days to get the remaing parts knittted. I think that I would like to get it completed on Saturday and take a picture of me wearing in during the closing ceremonies on Sunday. We shall see...

I have enough yarn to make a couple more hats. But I will take a breather from the pressure and knit the next one in a more relaxed environment.

Gold is in Sight

I didn't get to knit as much last night as I wanted. Just about 4 rows. So I took the hat to work to knit at lunch. I was explaining what I was doing to some co-workers and found out from Therese, who is a olympics junkie, that the closing ceromonies are not until Sunday. Man I have a lot of time to knit. I thought they were Friday and was in panic mode.

As you can see I have made progress. The llamas are completed and I am on the first of two small sections like in the beginning. I should be able to get one done during work tomorrow and a lot tomorrow night. The big Llamas are cute.

Working Hard - Day 12

Progress is being made on the hat. Last night I knit the body of the big llama's. They were pretty easy. But I got to get moving. I am not able to knit tonight. Hopefull tomorrow. I only have 4 more days to go. I am only knitting in the evenings. Thursday I have to go to a dinner. So Wed and Fri are it. I think I can do it. Sat can be used to put in all the ends.

Back in the Game - Going for Gold

I really thought that I was out of the picture with the Knitting olympics. I talked with my coach and he said that you are spending so much time unknitting, I didn't tell him that it's Frogging, that you should just start over. Well, I thought about it and he was right. So this is what the project looked like this morning.

Back to the ear flaps. I had to redo the caston for the hat and pick up the ear flaps again. And here is the project currently. I am back on board, boys! The knitting went very well tonight. I was watching the olympics. So maybe that had something to do with the progress and success.

I have the little diamonds and the little alpacs. Aren't they cute. Now I am working on some big alpacs for the main section.

Forgot what day it is

I tried to catch up with the knitting project. Still have some more stitches to remove and Then get the pattern working again. Pretty much still looks like this.

I have changed my sport for the past couple of days. I have been sewing. Making quilt tops. Just simple 5 inch squares sewn together. This one is finished. I just need to find the backing fabric. I have the binding, a nice stripe that matches the coloring in the quilt.