Catch-up stuff
Feb. 14th, 2010 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayThis week was one of those weeks where lots of niggly things went wrong so that by Friday I was saying "it will be a good day today even if I have to kill everyone to make it happen!". There was no one big thing, just lots of things every day and somehow that's more annoying than the weeks where one big thing goes wrong.
Anyway, Friday was a much better day and in the evening my knit group held a kick-off party for the Winter Olympics. In part, that's because it's the Vancouver Olympics and we're being good Canadians. It's also because we're taking part in a knitting challenge on Ravelry and cast-on was the opening ceremonies :-)
My challenge is the Sweater Slalom - I'm going to try to knit a short-sleeved sweater during the course of the Games. I've decided to get the sleeves over first, knitting both at the same time, and hit a slight hitch yesterday when I didn't read the pattern correctly. That lost me a couple of hours :-( Hopefully I'll get the sleeves done tomorrow, though. It's raglan, so the body will be slightly quicker than my usual set-in sleeves and at least the sleeves are getting me familiar with the rib-design before I start the big bits.
The party broke up very, very late so I didn't get to bed until 2am. Then I over slept badly yesterday - didn't wake up until noon! It's been two years since I slept that late. I spent the whole day with a sore, tight neck and a nasty headache which turned into an intense, migraine-ish headache yesterday evening. Yuck. I don't think it helped my pattern reading. I took some migraine meds and slept with a cracked open window, which seems to have done the trick. It's amazing how good you feel when a nasty headache finally lifts...
I watched the England Six Nations game at the pub this morning. I'm not sure that I have anything useful to say about it. Wow, we played badly. Good thing Italy played really badly.
There was a reason why I started a new paragraph, but I can't remember what it was. Looks like this is a good time to sign off!
Anyway, Friday was a much better day and in the evening my knit group held a kick-off party for the Winter Olympics. In part, that's because it's the Vancouver Olympics and we're being good Canadians. It's also because we're taking part in a knitting challenge on Ravelry and cast-on was the opening ceremonies :-)
My challenge is the Sweater Slalom - I'm going to try to knit a short-sleeved sweater during the course of the Games. I've decided to get the sleeves over first, knitting both at the same time, and hit a slight hitch yesterday when I didn't read the pattern correctly. That lost me a couple of hours :-( Hopefully I'll get the sleeves done tomorrow, though. It's raglan, so the body will be slightly quicker than my usual set-in sleeves and at least the sleeves are getting me familiar with the rib-design before I start the big bits.
The party broke up very, very late so I didn't get to bed until 2am. Then I over slept badly yesterday - didn't wake up until noon! It's been two years since I slept that late. I spent the whole day with a sore, tight neck and a nasty headache which turned into an intense, migraine-ish headache yesterday evening. Yuck. I don't think it helped my pattern reading. I took some migraine meds and slept with a cracked open window, which seems to have done the trick. It's amazing how good you feel when a nasty headache finally lifts...
I watched the England Six Nations game at the pub this morning. I'm not sure that I have anything useful to say about it. Wow, we played badly. Good thing Italy played really badly.
There was a reason why I started a new paragraph, but I can't remember what it was. Looks like this is a good time to sign off!
