Hey, are you getting as sick of the UFOlympics as I am?
It was fun to begin with — it was great to get a couple of projects out of the way and all that — but I’m getting a definite feeling of stuck-in-a-rut now.  Maybe this is why the real Olympics only last a couple of weeks, [...]

Well, it’s nearly halfway through the timeframe I set for my personal UFOlympics.  (In fact, it’s only about 40% of the way through, if you don’t count that "vacation" time I spent with strep.)
And while I’ve been waiting for you guys to decide what I’m supposed to do about the bunny eyes on the slippers, I haven’t [...]

OK, so I went and got white pom-poms and some bunny eyes last night.
But Houston - we have a problem.
The original eyes of Hip and Hop are pink with black centers, 18 mm diameter, with little radial lines or "veins" in them.  The poor furry little guys have been sadly abused over the years, so Hip [...]

OK, so I know I said I wasn’t going to work on the UFOs during my "vacation".
Well, that was before I got strep throat on the very first day of my "vacation".  I mean, it’s not like I had this penciled in on my calendar:

Friday morning:  Drop off DH at airport.  Teach Friday group class.
Friday [...]

Wow, this UFOlympics thing is getting to be quite an eye-opener for me.
For one thing, I have started to realize just how little time I devote to knitting in the course of a standard week.  I mean to the actual act of pulling one loop of yarn through another.  Sure, I spend plenty of time [...]

UFO #1, the fifth bear mitten:  FINISHED 07/09/08.
Final time:  2 days!
Yarn:  donated acrylic stuff.
Pattern:  from Twisted.
announcer’s voiceover:  She’s certainly maintaining a very competitive pace thus far, but can she possibly keep it up throughout the whole event?  We’ll have to wait and see.
I threw a 6-inch ruler into this picture for scale, so you can see that a single bear mitten [...]

Ummm… I have good news, and bad news.
First, the good news:  UFO #0, Brioche st hat:  FINISHED 07/07/08.
Final time (offical Swiss, of course):  2 days.
The crowd goes wild!
Yarn:  Manos del Uruguay silk & wool.
Pattern:  my own Polar Bear Pattern.
Shameless plug:  this is a sample for a class I’ll teach at the Knitting Bee in Sept. 
 

OK, the bad news:
#1:  I [...]

Well:  I’ve been seriously winnowing out the UFO pile in preparation for the Games of Summer.  I’ve had to revise my rule a bit, and I think I’ve got a goal now.

Original rule:  Finish all current UFO’s by the end of the Summer Games.

OK — perhaps you’ve already figured this out, but this is sheer lunacy.
After taking a [...]

OK, that Patricia is one smart cookie.  And she actually has some real-life experience and knowledge about styling, and how things ought to look.
So I took her advice on the whole "new look for the blog" thing. I have gone back to the "old" template, because it worked fine and did what I wanted it to [...]

Well, you can’t say I haven’t been keeping you in suspense!  It’s been a month since the last post on the wrap cardigan:  and against all expectations, I’ve made a fair amount of progress.
We have sleeves!  (They actually go down to about 3/4 length so far, but none of the pictures that showed the full sleeves were [...]