I knew that Valentine's Day was coming up because Stitches West always happens around then. (Can you tell I'm an obsessed knitter?) J and I decided to preempt the crowds and went out to sushi last night. It was divine, and I'm a little sad that we don't get to go tonight because they're serving some pretty fancy things like Kobe beef (actually I think he might have said Mishima) and hairy crab. It sounds delicious! I have no idea what fishes we ate except for salmon and toro. They were all damn good though. Best. Toro. EVER. J was so stuffed, he couldn't eat another bite. It was cute.
With our spontaneous VD plans, I took it easy on the Olympic knitting and managed to finish 6 rounds. That brings me to almost 40% of the way done. After reading Monkeemaven's post about tracking her progress with a spreadsheet, I decided to make one of my own for the Rose of England. The numbers were way higher than I was expecting. No wonder even the plain rows take so long!!! Eunny of Eunny Knits is also using a spreadsheet to track her progress. It's the trend, apparently. And speaking of Monkee and Eunny, I've made a new folder in my bloglines feeds for "Psychotic Olympians", i.e. any olympic knitter aiming to knit over 80K stitches with allover lace, cables or colorwork. I haven't found that many psychotic olympic knitters with regularly updated blogs and pictures. If you know of any, tell me so I can obsessively track them too!
It doesn't look like very much progress. 4480 stitches.
Love the lace. You certainly picked an ambitious project for the olympics. How many stitches around right now? (It makes my hands hurt just thinking about it.)
Posted by: Janice at February 14, 2006 11:27 AMGo Cookie!
Ohhh, would you mind sending me the name of the place you went for dinner? I'm a Japanophile. I mean, come on, good food, neat gadgets, AND they have their own yarn companies. Plus public transport to knit it all on.
Posted by: freecia at February 14, 2006 12:42 PMI keep thinking of the line from the Eminem song:
"Tell the whole world that you gave eminem VD!"
Heh. VD. I'm like a 12 year old.
Posted by: kristi at February 14, 2006 1:44 PMHehehe, that could be my new motto: "Psychotic Olympic knitting since the late 80's" :)
But you're right, it's hard to find updates on the bigger projects. Most of the time people seem to have forgotten the whole thing or switched onto something less time-consuming.
Posted by: Mothlady at February 15, 2006 2:55 PMGirl - that's amazing! Will you mount it and frame it? I know I would! Hope to drop in to Stitches (just bought my ticket) and catch you and K at the lace knitter's booth.
Posted by: Juls at February 16, 2006 8:15 PMGirl - that's amazing! Will you mount it and frame it? I know I would! Hope to drop in to Stitches (just bought my ticket) and catch you and K at the lace knitter's booth.
Posted by: Juls at February 16, 2006 8:15 PM