Success and Failure

My Ravellenic Games Team Ravatar

Official Ravthlete Ravatar

My official Scarf Hockey Medal!

The 2012 Ravellenic Games are over. I completed one project and received a lovely badge for it. Success!

 

 

 

 

Rose Tyler BoomTown Scarf

Unfortunately, I did not complete my other event(s). Most specifically, I did not finish Tinker Bell. She's still technically not finished. The pattern was just too confusing, leading me to have to frog a couple pieces, then start them over. Tinker Bell is still not finished, but I'm hoping to power through and get it done this weekend.

Tinker Bell's Current Condition. Boo.

So, I didn't get everything I intended to done for the Ravellenic Games, but I learned a lot about knitting. Specifically yarn overs, decreasing, and that ribbing in the throw(?) method is painful for a girl with tendinitis. Because of that, I'm thinking I may have to switch back to Continental. I'm almost a week out from the contest and my arms are still hurting.

Ravellenic Games - Day 5?

Rose Tyler's BoomTown Scarf - Progress

So, I'm not sure what day of the Ravellenics this is. I can't decide if Friday the 27th counts, or not. Regardless, this post is just to show the progress I'm making on the Rose Tyler scarf. It looks really pretty, though I'm not sure it looks enough like the original. The yarn coloring is finally getting to what I thought it would look like and not so pastel, so that's good. I'm just a little bit frustrated that it takes so much time to make. Knitting is slow. Plus, I'm not quite good enough to watch the Olympics while I'm knitting, so the events I actually want to see, I'm having to put it down. (Go Team USA Swimming/Gymnastics/Tennis/Beach Volleyball!)

I'm using a Yarn Bowl to hold my yarn. It was made by my friend Ariel's dad. And it is full of awesome. I've gotten so many compliments and tons of people want one. One person literally said to me: "Oh, when I start knitting, I will definitely use one of those." So, the actual crafting of scarves and sweaters and animals isn't enough to entice them to start, but a pretty bowl to hold yarn is. :)

Olympics and Yarn

I've been watching the Olympics while I work on my Ravellenic events. Tonight, as I'm trying to decide what to do with my amigurumi TinkerBell's face, I'm watching the NBC coverage of the US Men's Gymnastics Team Final. I assume the announcers are trying to prepare the viewers for the fact that there won't be a medal, but man, they are constantly pointing out the bad. Saying a fantastic vault by Jake Dalton is "too little too late," which I would argue, was fantastic, not too little. And then NBC only chooses to show the best of the best from the other countries, enthusiastically pointing out that they had errors in the past, but not tonight when it counts.

I don't know if this is because they are finally just assuming we know the results ahead of time or if they really believe they'll lose viewers by seeing our team fail to live up to a medal, but the way it's being shown is making it far worse in my opinion. They could actually focus on the good of our team. Or just give us the meet as it happens, like they usually do. This constant focus on what went wrong is just depressing. Yuck.

Now I'm depressed, and I still can't decide what to do with TinkerBell's eyes.