The 2010 Knitting Olympics
The long-anticipated 2010 Winter Olympics kicks off in Vancouver, BC tomorrow night. This is exciting for 2 reasons:
- I absolutely LOVE the winter Olympics. In my opinion, all the best Olympic sports involve snow and ice.
- During the opening ceremony tomorrow night, I will be feverishly casting on a project for the unofficial Knitting Olympics. (I realize this makes me a prime target for granny jokes, but I don’t care.)
The idea of the Knitting Olympics is to start a challenging-but-not-impossible project during the opening ceremony, and complete it by the time the torch goes out 17 days later.
Tomorrow night at 6:00 pm (Pacific Time) sharp, I will be in front of the TV casting on to make this ‘lil guy:
His name is Sheldon and not only is his shell removeable, but you can also knit him badass outfits like this pirate set:
I’m not yet sure what colors I’ll use for my Sheldon; that will depend on what I can find in my yarn stash. I suppose he may end up being a girl turtle, in which case I would probably call her Shellen.
*You can read more about the Knitting Olympics here, written by none other than the most fabulous Canadian I “know”, the Yarn Harlot.
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