Ravellenics Update #4 - Finished

Well, after a marathon nine and a half hours knitting on Sunday I finished knitting my preemie hats (a dozen total) with thirty-five minutes to spare! This was immediately followed by picture taking and a flurry of postings to the Finish Lines for Charity Rowing, Hat Dash, Synchronized Stash Bust, & Baby Dressage Events for teamDAM (Diagon Alley Marauders), more postings to pertinent Ravelry boards to proclaim my success, and then a good long alternating hot and cold soak for my tired aching right hand. And then a nap.

So, here are the finished preemie hats, which along with the four previously knit hats, are going to the Remembering Remy charity.




And here are my medals:













And now back to our regularly scheduled programing...


Brought To Me By:
Audiobooks:   Curse The Dawn by Karen Chance; Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie; The Tale of Holy How by Susan Wittig Albert;
DVDs etc:
Pod/VideoCasts:  The Knit Girllls; Cast On; Electric Sheep;

Ravellenics Update #3

Things are not going according to plan. With only three days left to the games I have only four and a half preemie hats done. I was sidelined by an eight day long migraine with vertigo that kept me from knitting, and well basically from doing anything too visual: reading, knitting, watching DVDs, etc. It broke this morning which allowed me to knit a hat and a half while on the bus and waiting to do tests at the doctors. Unfortunately, there's a storm front coming through and I can feel it gearing up for another round. I should be able to finish the fifth hat tonight - I'm at a straight knitting part and can pretty much do that without looking - but I have to look when ribbing, so starting new ones might be a little tricky. I'll try though. I really want to finish; I want more medals! On the bright side (I guess), no knitting/spinning means I'm getting a fair bit of fleece washing and prep done.

Crossing The Line

On/Off My Spindles:

Ravellenic Games
Team: Hopelessly Overcommitted
Event: Handspun Heptathalon



Finally crossed my first Finish Line yesterday morning with approximately 300 yds fingering wt yarn, Shetland "Forecast" colorway dyed by Spunky Eclectic. The color is all off and I can't seem to correct it. This is actually shades of blue, not green.




Other Non-Ravellenic Stuff:
I finished plying skein 5 of the Wensleydale fiber in the Rasputin colorway by Crown Mountain Farms this morning. It is worsted spun and chain plied and I got approximately 85 yds of 3ply. I was hoping for more but what can I say, I'm not spinning my singles on the same spindle I spun the first three mini-skeins on. I guess it makes a difference, at least this time.




On/Off My Needles:

Ravellenic Games
Team: Diagon Alley Marauders
Event(s): Hat Dash, Charity Rowing & Stash reduction

First up is a dozen Preemie Hats for the Remembering Remy charity from this 2+ year old pile of Louet Gems mill end fingering wt yarn.



I cast on yesterday and have one and a half hats done as of right now. Will finish the second hat and start third tonight. There's over 900 grams of yarn here so one thing I don't have to worry about is running out of yarn!



Brought To Me By:
Audiobooks:   Fool Moon by Jim Butcher;
DVDs etc: Harry Potter TDH Parts 1&2; Buffy TVS S7;
Pod/VideoCasts:  Sticks & String, Knitting Pipeline;

Ravellenics Update #2 - The Halfway Point

Well, here we are, one week gone and only nine days left. How am I doing? Totally off schedule, that's how I'm doing. Haven't finished my spinning for the Handspun Heptathalon. Haven't cast on for Hat Dash/Charity Rowing yet either.

So tonight I will finish spinning and then ply my Shetland fiber. Then I will cast on my first hat. Then I can go to bed. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Ravellenics update

The Ravellenic Games began on Friday. First up for me is the Handspun Heptathalon for Team Hopelessly Overcommitted. I'm about halfway through spinning the Shetland bump in the Forecast colorway. See:




It's pretty. I was going to make a standard 2ply, but after I started spinning I decided to chain/Navajo ply it. I'm spinning it semi-worsted and it's going smoothly. I've spun Shetland before from pre-washed fleece I've hand processed, and while they both spin easily, this commercially processed fiber feels much different. Not bad different, just different. Now I realize there are textural differences between fleece and even within a single fleece, but the difference here is enough to make me wonder whether this really is 100% Shetland. This feels more like a Polwarth to me.

Regardless, I expect I'll be finished spinning by tomorrow night, and finished plying by Thursday night. That's the plan at least.

Tomorrow I will start knitting my projects for Team Diagon Alley Marauders.

Oddments

10 Mile Goal:  all the TdF spinning put me over the 16,000 yard mark.  If I keep up this pace of spinning I should reach my 17,600 yard goal well before year end!



The Ravellenic Games at Ravelry start Friday and I'm no where near ready!





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