For as much of the next 2 weeks as I can manage, I will be sitting on my butt watching the Summer Olympics. I will revel in the swimmers (and bemoan the lack of good swimming holes near where I live), look at the runners with amazement and envy, and be thrilled by the contortions of the gymnasts. And I will do this all with my knitting in hand. Unlike the last Winter Olympics, I will not be trying to gamely finish something in the two weeks, though I probably will manage to finish a pair of socks or Picovoli. Heck, with some luck, I'll even manage to finish the last two or three FOs that are still waiting for their time in the sun, an item in surprisingly short supply this summer.
I will save up my pennies and I will buy a knitting pattern (I know which one I'm going to buy from the Twist Collective first) and the yarn to make it. And when the Summer Olympics are over, I will go back to my gym schedule and pounding my body flat and trim for the 10K in October.
As for that knitting:
Picovoli is just around the bust mark. I moved it all onto waste yarn and tried it on. I'm knitting about another inch and then proceeding to the next step in the pattern. I might have been done already if it weren't for the Chocobo game and the Star Trek novels.
My most recent pair of socks is still in the middle of the first sock. I probably have 3 or 4 inches of knitting before I can move to the toe, so I should be able to finish this without too much effort provided I can drag myself away from the game and the novels. The Olympics are actually going to improve the quantity of my knitting for the forseeable future, because I won't be embroiled in one of two other time sucking hobbies that preclude the use of my hands for knitting. And a good thing too, because I queued about a half dozen patterns today from the latest IK and the Twist Collective.
