UFOlympics, Post Number 1

I've made quite a bit of progress on my UFOlympics knitting so far. The first two pictures are show the status as of midday August 9th.

While watching the opening ceremonies, I more than double the amount of knitting I had done on the brown body of the lacy sleeved sweater. The following morning I got tired of the "talking heads" & muted thme out. I continued watching but also listened to Lime & Violet's latest podcast while finishing the heel flaps & turning the heels on both of my sea-blue Apple Laine socks. I didn't want to be trying to figure out where I was on the striped sweater while listening to Lime & Violet.


It turned out to be a good thing that I waited to tackle the striped sweater until I could concentrate better.

The third picture shows the status of my striped sweater sleeves, before I resumed knitting on them this morning, August 10th. It took a quite bit of wrestling with them to get to this stage, though.

They were a bit frustrating to start with, & it quickly became apparent why this project had been a UFO for so long. On Saturday, I ended up frogging to fix problems I didn’t realize were there when the UFO stalled originally. Prior to the UFOlympics, I had picked up the stitches & knit two inches of sleeve in the wrong size needle. (I had originally meant to pick up the stitches with one size smaller of needle & then switch to the same size I used for the body.) The first thing I had to do was go hunting for the right size needles. It took me a while to remember where I had put them. Sigh… So much for having done “proper training” prior to the start of the Olympics.

I ripped that sleeve down to one row above the picked up stitches, switched to the right size needle, & picked up stitches on the other sleeve so that I could work them together. I was pleasantly surprised at how much easier it was to pick up stitches on the second sleeve as compared to how I recall the first one, back before it became a UFO.

After getting about 3 inches into both sleeves, I realized there was a problem with the stitches I’d picked up a year ago. “Saving” the picked up stitches & the first row actually ended up costing me time! ARGH! Because I’d picked up half the sleeve’s worth of stitches through the middle of the bindoff, the join of the sleeve to the body wasn't a solid as I'd like. I decided I couldn’t just let it be. Yet more ripping of mohair… Double sigh… I'm very happy to have that behind me now & have made good progress on this sweater since then.