I knew there were perks

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I’m rather unexpectedly in MA visiting my publisher for a photo shoot, and I have learned three things.

1. It takes a lot of makeup to make it look like you are wearing no make-up at all. This is extremely disconcerting if you are the sort of person who normally wears no makeup and achieves the same thing.

Makeup2Mks

2. I have no idea what is going on here.

Elephants

This is a life size concrete elephant. This has nothing to do with my photo shoot, but it was strange as all get out.

3. If you are an knitting book author long enough, apparently the perks start to be things you couldn’t imagine.

Ohyarnboy

This is my Yarn Boy. Charlie was the handsome gentleman assigned to position my yarn and pull lengths of it free from the ball for me. (I swear it. A yarn boy. Can you imagine? “Oh Yarn boy….”) He may have done some other stuff too, but I was laughing to hard to tell .

I’m home tomorrow (briefly) and we’ll catch up then.

Olympic Notes:

The deadline for new entries is tonight at midnight. This is necessary to keep S. Kate, Emma and I from sobbing helplessly as we try to keep up. There are nearly 3000 entrants, if you are not on the list yet, keep holding one. There will be a change to make corrections to the list tomorrow.

Finally, from Beadlizard…some very, very good advice.

397 thoughts on “I knew there were perks”

  1. Oooh, can I get me a yarn boy? Or girl might be even better! 😉
    Knitting Olympics, here I come! I’ve swatched and worked out the pattern…just itchin’ to start.

  2. “Yarn boy, polish my saddle.” Amazing how vulgar the chastest quotation can sound out of context. (Could you get him to answer “As you wish?”)
    So let’s concentrate on how great your hair looks. Glorious.

  4. Ooooh – A Yarn Boy! We at Team Knittyboard have Cabana Boys – I wonder if any of them can be trained to be Yarn Boys!
    April

  5. A yarn boy, that sounds delicious… yarn boy will you untangle this 4-ball mess? freshen my coffee? yum… So, I’m wondering if photo shoot is in anticipation of bbb3? I hope so!
    Re: knitting olympics, I too am swatched and ready to go. I’ve cleared Friday, 2:00, and announced to my family my intention to ignore their whims for the duration of the olympics, or finishing the sweater, whichever ends first.

  6. Ok, I’m going to suck it up and join the Knitting Olympics. I don’t know if this is the right place to sign up, but since I can’t find anyother place, (I am blonde afterall, so it’s probably right in front of my face). Anyway I’m going to do socks for my mom.

  7. Wow – I need me a couple of yarn boys. Their duties may even include something to do with yarn. 🙂

  10. I’ve looked through comments to make sure mine didn’t go through, so if it did, eek! Apologies!
    I’ll be knitting the Sheep Shawl from FiberTrends. I am INSANE.

  11. Hoping that my one little name can’t be the straw on the proverbial back, I’d like to sign up for the Olympics too!! I’m attempting Latvian mittens (yikes), if my yarn comes in time. If not, a lovely black shawl. THANKS for what you do here!! JennyK

  12. I’m proud to say that I have a yarnboy. It’s my 9 year old son. He acts as my swift, and he’s not as willing as your yarnboy appears to be. But maybe if I train him right, his future wife will thank me.

  14. I’m a procrastinator, so tru eto form, I’ve waited until the last minute to sign up for the Knitting Olympics. I’ll be making a baby sweater for my soon-to-be-arriving niece. I’m adapting a pattern in Minnies (adding some flower embellishments, changing the shoulders a bit, different yarn, probably different gauge – OK, it will probably turn out totally different now that i think about it). Anyway, the knitting will not be terribly challenging, but finishing any knitting at all is a challenge of sorts with a 3 month old boy in your arms! Good luck to all knitter-athletes!

  16. I never thought of myself as a jealous person, until now. I need a yarn boy. Which means I need either a lot of money or stronger mind-bullets.

  17. I preordered your Knitting Rules today from Amazon, can’t wait to get it! I thoroughly devoured the first two. Thanks for the hours of pleasure I get reading your books and blog. and good luck for the Olympics! I’ll be cheering you on.

  18. I have SO got ‘Yarn Boy’ envy!!! Are you allowed to SHARE your yarn boy? :o)
    Bobblicious Knitting Team Captain

  19. I also sent an email signing up for the Olympics, and I’m probably the world’s biggest pain in the ass for double signing up, but I’m nervous my email was lost in cyberspace and I’ll miss out on the deadline. I will be making Tubey from Knitty. Thanks a million times over for all the work associated with this.

  21. Your yarn boy looks much better trained than my yarn cat. Emy ‘helps’ me make sure that all balls of yarn are arranged in artistic clumps.

  23. I share my home with 5 men – one husband and four sons-in-training-to-be-men (its a very hard job to turn them into good husband material) and I have failed to turn even one of them into a Yarn Boy. Must try harder! If you are knitting Knitpicks Snowflake and Arrows Vest – there are typos.

  24. Lovely…concrete elephants and yarn-boys, oh my! Are you sure that’s you in the first photo? You’re looking so very demure and serene, not harlot-ish at all. Perhaps the weight of all that makeup was diminishing your natural joie de vivre? And absolutely, the yarn boy has to reply to all commands/requests with “As you wish”. It’s the only proper way. Knit on, buttercup.

  26. In my Civil War reenacting unit, we women-folk refer to the newest recruits as Cabana Boys. “Oh, Cabana Boy–would you please fetch us some water?” I think we’re going to have to give them a whole new set of duties this season. “Oh Yarn Boy–would you please fetch my DPNs out of that basket?”

  28. Sorry to add to the craziness, but I think I have to throw my hat into the ring for the Olympics. I’ll be tackling a self-designed old-fashioned gansey for Mark, to commemorate our stay in New Brunswick. It may well kill me, and will almost certainly destroy any chances that I will finish my dissertation on time, but hey, what’s that compared to Olympic glory?!

  30. I’m stressed bout the KO…not sure I can COMPLETE the pair of socks I’m planning on casting on…… but I think I have a solution! As well as a solution to the guilt of Second Sock Syndrome… I’m organizing a SECOND SOCK SYNDROME FOR STUMPS drive…..a charity knitting drive to distribute SSS and other hand knit items to amputees… what’s half a pair to me — is perfect for an amputee!
    I have 3 sons- they REFUSE to be yarn-boys— bummer. 😉
    check out my blog for details— yes- shameless plug. For a good cause! 😉

  32. A Yarn boy…(envisioning a Cary Elwes type from the Princess Bride…as you wish…) that’s got to be fun. Oh i love it when makeup types reccommend cosmetics for me for the natural look. You mean the look I’m sporting now (no makeup) is unnatural??

  33. So, now that you’ve got Charlie of MA as a Yarnboy, does that mean that Dale of Norway is all mine?

  34. I’m very excited to start. I’ve changed my entry – I did it a while ago – but I started on the Cartigan for my Grandmother early – in an effort to get it done for her birthday (Feb 14th). I doubt you remember why I’m knitting this – but my grandfather died on 1/18 – and while visiting him, my grandmother (who is turning 80 this year) made a comment that she didn’t want to celebrate her birthday this year. And she then went on to request a very specfic sweater from me. So – I felt compelled to get it finished for her birthday. I’m done with the back, two sleeves and one and a half fronts! So, I’m close.
    To make a long story longer, I would therefore like to change my Olympic challenge knitting to a Blithe Cardigan (it’s BABY CAMEL yarn). I don’t know if you are even keeping track anymore of what people are knitting – but here is my ‘offical’ entry.
    And send me a yarn boy, please.

  35. Stephanie – can you please sign up my darling sister Maryann to the Olympic List? She will be knitting her FIRST PAIR OF SOCKS!!!! And when you done with the Yarn Boy, will you be passing him around?

  36. Sign me up please, going to try my first attempt at socks. I’m going out yarn shopping at lunch.

  38. I am LMFAO at the idea of Charlie the Yarn Boy. I want to send him cookies. The fact that he looks so blessed accommodating in that picture indicates to me that in the past his title has included MUCH weirder things than Yarn Boy. I think I’m in love.
    And I love that elephant too. I’m enthralled with huge concrete animals. (You’d think there wouldn’t be a whole lot of those around, but you’d be surprised.)
    My theory on makeup: if I’m going to spend money and time on it, it had better darn well SHOW UP.

  39. yum… a yarn boy.. and here I thought I always wanted a pool boy…
    You realize of course, that I am going to waste a good deal of time trying to figure out why anyone was moving a concrete elephant.

  40. Okay, okay…I’m in…I will make a vest for DH, and socks for two small pairs of feet, thus delighting all the men in my life. Perhaps then I can successfully turn one of them into my yarn boy. The littlest one will already participate in ball winding, with enthusiasm. I have hope.
    And thank you so much to the Beadlizard. Such good and thorough advice is sure to help us all.

  41. I hope I got in there with my last minute entry – I posted in your last entry but there were 100s of comments so i was worried mine got lost. The elephant is truly weird.
    tutleymutley
    going to frog, start and finish a cardi for her ample mother that was first started over two years ago!!!!

  42. Ah yes, the mystery of the one hour and expertise necessary to create the natural look. But, from what I can see, you look smashing. Yarn Boy? HeeHeeHee. That’s fabulous. I wonder how drunk I’d have to get my husband before he’d do that. He’d probably pass out first. Sigh.

  43. Hi!
    Would like to join the Olympics. I think I sent a email to the librarian by mistake. Did not understand directions. New to all of this!
    Anyways this is way cool. I am going to knit
    a Multidirectional scarf & tablerunner. Thanks for all the fun. Currently doing finger stretches
    to get me ready for my events. Annette

  44. Hi!
    Would like to join the Olympics. I think I sent a email to the librarian by mistake. Did not understand directions. New to all of this!
    Anyways this is way cool. I am going to knit
    a Multidirectional scarf & tablerunner. Thanks for all the fun. Currently doing finger stretches
    to get me ready for my events. Annette

  45. So glad I checked in here today and didn’t miss the deadline!
    I’m in for the olympics – I’ll be doing a pair of fair isle mittens.

  46. Ooh! I want a Yarn Boy, too! I wonder if I could train Chappy to do that, without running off with my yarn for a good play? Wouldn’t be the same, though.
    Meanwhile, I’m looking forward to the Olympics. I’ve got my yarn, my swatch (washed and everything). My pattern numbers have been crunched, the color-pattern worked out on the computer. I’ve got the needles, the stitch markers. And the projects I’ve currently got on the needles have been warned that they may find themselves sitting in the dark for a couple of weeks, and they say they’re okay with that.
    I did have a question/suggestion, though. I know to win Gold, you have to have your project completely done–ends woven in, buttons sewn on, lace blocked–all that. How about a Silver medal for people who got everything done EXCEPT those last, finishing details? I mean, if they (possibly me) managed to get all the actual knitting done, but couldn’t block because there were houseguests using the spare bed (bad planning), or the buttons didn’t match after all, or they couldn’t pull out the sewing machine to do finish a steek . . . seems to me they deserve something, huh? But I really am going for the gold!
    Glad you had fun at your photo shoot! (Yarn Boy! What a lucky duck!)

  47. I finally chose a project and the yarn is in the mail…so I guess that means I’m in! I’ll be knitting the Flower Basket Lace Shawl by fibertrends. Good luck everyone!

  48. Sign me up! I’m going for a knitting relay: Finish 2 sweaters that have been hanging around for over a year, make a sweater for me (or at least start), finish a sock or two and we’ll see how much else I can get done. My mother-in-law is bringing me yarn so maybe I’ll make a shawl. I know that’s kind of weak since I’m not doing any one particular thing. The challenge for me will be just to get anything at all done with a baby and my in-laws in town.

  49. Sign me up for the Olympics. I’m going to complete a placemat in fair isle! It’s my first time ever doing fair isle. (I’m a new knitter).

  50. Sign me up for the Olympics. I’m going to complete a placemat in fair isle! It’s my first time ever doing fair isle. (I’m a new knitter).

  51. You had a Yarn Boy!? That’s soooo cool!!
    I changed my mind. Sign me up for the Olympics. I could use a pair of wrist warmers.

  52. I too sent an email to add my daughter Emily W. and our young neighbour Kathleen D. to the knitting olympics. Both girls think this is very cool,awesome etc. The adjectives go on and on.
    Emily 12 years old will knit her first hat- challenge to purl and use circular needles. From my standpoint to finish something.
    Kathleen 14 will knit her first pair of socks.
    Love the toyboy(oops yarn boy).
    My apologies to you and your workers for doubling up on the email. This panicy feeling if the girls don’t see their names in lights(your blog)
    Thank you so much!!
    Tricia W.

  53. I love the yarn boy!
    CORRECTION: My Knitting Olympics Entry will be a cabled dog sweater. Yep, that’s right. I’m designing it for a friend’s dog.

  54. Hi!
    Would like to join the Olympics. I think I sent a email to the librarian by mistake. Did not understand directions. New to all of this!
    Anyways this is way cool. I am going to knit
    a Multidirectional scarf & tablerunner. Thanks for all the fun. Currently doing finger stretches
    to get me ready for my events. Annette

  56. I need a yarn boy! The cats try, but they get distracted too easily. The yarn is just too much of a temptation I guess 😉
    I also wanted to let you know that I decided on my entry for the Olympics. I’m going to be knitting Marshmallow (a sweater not the food). Wish me luck!

  57. Imagine the vacation of your dreams — warm, sunny — the yarn boy on the left (“They were all out of the peach merino that you asked for at the LYS but this cashmere was marked 75% off, so I figured you wouldn’t mind, plus the needles were on sale so I got you one of every size — with my money, of course…”), the cabana boy on the right (“Another rum runner, Miss?”) and the Entertain the Children boy (or girl, or maybe just Mary Poppins would be a better idea) toting the kids off to the ball field, amusement park, mall…it’d be lovely, don’tcha think?

  58. Well, my first thought is however can we humble few anxiously awaiting the start of the Medrona Fiber Arts Festival ever compete?
    We have yummy yarns,decadent chocolate and some pretty amazing coffee, but your own personal Yarn Boy, sigh.
    How about a Yarn Girl? I have a 15yo I’ll be happy to donate to the cause, good qualifications, she knits and spins, plenty of stamina for hours of following about hauling yarn, coffee and chocolate. Say the word and she’s yours for the weekend.
    Okay the down side is she never shuts up, but seriously I think we can work something it out.

  61. A yarn boy? Doesn’t it make you wish you had a saddle? Then you could say Buttercup’s line from Princess Bride, “Yarn boy, polish my saddle. I want to see my face shining in it by morning.”

  62. Sign me up for the Olympics! I going to try to complete the 40″ lace center square of a 60″ square wedding veil/shawl.

  63. I would like to sign up for the Knitting Olympics. I will be making a ribbed tank top of my own design. I dislike the monotony of ribbing so it will be a challenge for me will to stick with it for a whole garment.
    This is my first post. I found your blog last spring after doing a search on yarn and Newfoundland. My husband’s family had a get together in Nwefoundland last summer. It was because of you that I found Aunt Maggie’s Homespun in Woody Point. What a find!
    Keep up the blogging! Reading your blog is one of the highlights of my day.

  64. You were in MA and didn’t tell us, your loyal Willow Books fans? On second thought, that’s OK, we understand, even though any of us would have been honored to hold your yarn.
    Where is the elephant? On one of the five campuses, I bet.
    Meanwhile, back at the Olympics… I have ordered yarn for the Breakthrough Sweater, and I have swatched. I have concluded 1) when I finish the sweater dancing in my head, and I will finish it, it will be gorgeous, and it will be MINE; 2) no way it’s happening in 16 days. So, back to the drawing board. I have some lovely pale-blue wool in stash, and I know a boy baby who has yet to receive a knitted object from me.

  65. I give up, Stephanie! I have tried and tried (since the very first day you posted it) to resist but I simply must join the Olympics.
    God help me but I will be attempting to knit Cozy (yes, another thing I have been trying to resist so I guess it kind of fits) from knitty.com.
    Wish me luck!
    And may I just say “Of course you have a yarn boy! You’re a knitting goddess and I’m pretty sure the rule book says every knitting goddess must have one!” (Personally I’m trying to train one of my dogs but it’s not, er, going so well!)

  66. my peacock feathers shawl and yarn will not be getting here in time…and i sill haven’t decided which other shawl i’m going to do…so just write “shawl” i suppose. it will probably end up being the sheep one. if any of you have a nice, calm, well trained dog, there’s no need to go into humans, who might complain. but i would go for a dry-mouthed breed….
    melanie

  67. Totally off topic…well, kinda. I’ve been reading your blog for ages, and finally bought the book “The Secret Life of a Knitter” and I love it. I’ve already purchased three other copies as Valentine’s gifts to the other knitters in my life. You are a very talented wordsmith.

  69. Yarn Boy! This Koigu is not to my exact liking… bring me another colorway.
    Yarn Boy! Finish this second sock for me… I tire of this pattern.
    Yarn Boy! This lace needs blocking!
    Ooh, the possibilities…

  71. Oooh – I want a yarn boy too!!! BTW – if you’re still in MA, I’m close (in Northern CT), and would love to meetcha at my LYS for a cuppa!

  72. my peacock feathers shawl and yarn will not be getting here in time…and i sill haven’t decided which other shawl i’m going to do…so just write “shawl” i suppose. it will probably end up being the sheep one. if any of you have a nice, calm, well trained dog, there’s no need to go into humans, who might complain. but i would go for a dry-mouthed breed….
    melanie

  74. I know nothing about concrete elephants in MA, but there is a life-size concrete elephant in St. Thomas, Ontario, brought in from New Brunswick. I remember it being a Big Deal.
    Now, where can I sign up for a Yarn Boy?

  75. I swear… he could have a new profession. Bet knitters would be willing to slip dollar bills in his tool belt just for the laugh. (hope that sounds the way I meant it 😉 ).

  76. OK. I’m nuts. But I want my own yarn boy – all I’ve got right now are yarn cats. The darling wants a scarf, so sign me up for the Olympics, that’ll get me motivated….

  77. Glad you put a time limit on signing up.It has forced me out of my reticence and into action. I’ll be knitting the sunrise circle jacket from the new Interweave knits.

  78. I want a yarn boy, but only if he’ll weave in my ends and do my blocking, otherwise, I’ll stick with what I got – me!

  79. Holy heck! A yarn boy! Wow. I want a yarn boy too! Sometimes my husband acts as a yarn boy, but I think mostly he likes to play with my ball winder …
    3 days until the Olympics! I can’t wait! I’m all ready to go … anxiously awaiting the moment I can cast on for my project and then knit until my fingers ache so I can get a baby blanket that once took me month to complete done in 16 days!! Oh the insanity of it all!

  80. I have no yarn. The yarn has no been found.
    *panic*
    How can the Olympics be here when I have not been able to find yarn?
    That’s it! I’m making up my own sweater. That’s my only solution. I’m just gonna wing it.

  81. Yarn boy – Wow. Does he find patterns too? I need one of them if so. I borrowed a winder and wound the yarn for my event but now I can’t find the pattern, which was on my desk just a few days ago. arghhh!!! (This is why I resist cleaning, never can find stuff afterwards.) luckily I still have a few days to look. Is there a decathlon in the winter olympics? might just have to make a detour into that event….

  83. I’ve finally given in to the pressure from Team Hockey Moms so please sign me up. I’m going to knit my MIL’s cashmere/silk lace scarf or several Dulaan hats and mittens. I have a 12hr each way commute to a hockey tny in Arizona in the middle of the Olympics so I have to see which option works out since I haven’t figured out how to knit safely while driving. (And no, “knitting while driving” is not going to be my Olympic event!)

  84. Please sign me up for the Knitting Olympics. I plan to knit an edging on to my languishing Kerry Blue Shawl. The challenge: learning to knit and purl backwards so I won’t be turning the work constantly.

  85. Let’s see. I have yarn…and I have a boy…but somehow I think the boy would object to spending his entire day holding the yarn.
    Of course, when we curl up together on the couch I stick the yarn in his lap so it stays out of my way, so I suppose I can’t complain too much.

  87. Some knitters get all the luck. How i would punish, i mean, treasure a good yarn boy. The jealousy is killing me.
    ON that Olympic thing, I’d like to enter if still possible and I have just this moment come to my senses and resisted the urge to try socks, god, I hate those heels! Instead, I am making a scarry black yoga wrap (vogue knitting mag pattern) out of homespun. This way, I’ll be doing some sort of yoga and surely I will not get stressed out (have I mentioned we are in the heat of lambing season?) and threaten to make vacancies at the dinner table with my pointy objects. Imagine, a bow macrame’d out of hemp shooting little 0 and 1 dpns at them! Oh, I know, that much fun is not socially acceptable.

  88. OK, sign me up! I’m going for finishing a whole pair of socks during the olypics – child’s socks, but still. . .

  91. OK, I am signing up for the Olympic Sock Team — mark me down for my first pair of argyles! Go Team!

  95. I just bought your two books this morning – and now I read, there’s a third coming?!! Hurrah – I won’t have to ration my reading time. I also recommended your blog to the cashier at Chapters. She’s a novice knitter.

  96. I think I’ll train my yarn boy to say, “I beg to serve you.” I’ll add my thanks for the MONUMENTAL work you and your fearless helpers have done for this project. It’s all the buzz at our guild. I haven’t been this excited about the Olympics for years.

  97. Sign me up before it’s too late! I’m going to make the “fan and feather”/wavey/whatever it’s called scarf for my Mom’s birthday present.
    This shall be a challenge because I juuuuust learned how to do yos. Oh yeah, this shall be fun.

  98. OK, ok, the yarn call – and the great spirit is much too hard to resist ! Sign me in for the Olympics…
    I will be knitting River (Rowan 38) so I can bring it with me at the end of March for my vacations in Dominican Republic – those sea winds that River will comfort me from !!!!

  101. Finally realized that I couldn’t bear the thought of missing out on the excitement, so sign me up, too!
    I’ll be making a surprise vest for DH.

  102. Ok. After much internal debate, I am going to join you guys in the Olympics. ;0) I am going to be doing a pair of socks in a cream merino with red beads for the games. It is also the Six Sox Knitalong pattern…what can I say? I am a multi-tasker.

  103. I would like to join the fun of the olympics! I am going to attempt to make the Thuja socks from Knitty. I have attempted but never finished a sock. My goal is to finish a pair! I may need a yarn boy but will have to try with out! Good Luck to all!

  105. I’m emerging from lurkerdom to throw my name into the Olympic ring. I’m planning to make the Cosmos Vest from Simply Shetland.
    (I believe you were visiting my wee little hometown of North Adams, no? Mass MoCA is an interesting place.)

  106. Oooo – a yarn boy! It’s the least you deserve. 😀 I think all Olympic Knitters should have those or at least the gold metal winners, eh?
    Ok – sign me up for the big event. I’m going for a purple mohair Moebius lace scarf by Fiber Trends.

  107. Oops…posted to the wrong day.
    I’m thinking that I should show the Yarn Boy to DH, but I’m not sure that I’m ready for his response!
    As far as the Knitting Olympics, if you or S.Kate would change mine from undecided to cardigan, I’d appreciate it. Good thing there are Tim Horton’s nearby for a steady supply of iced cappucino!

  108. Finally entering the Knitting Olympics after much see-sawing about patterns and such.
    I will be attempting the Sophie bag from Magknits. Felting, here I come!
    I am glad to have my very own Yarn Girl named Bug. Sometimes she’s not as dedicated to her duties as I would like, but I wouldn’t trade her for any other in the world!

  109. Okay, I’m in. Olympics here I come! I’ll be knitting Sirdar pattern 8509, a short sleeved top.
    I’ve had the yarn for a while. My husband will be happy, everytime I come in with new yarn he says “What about that pink sweater?” He just doesn’t get it.

  112. You so deserve a yarn boy on bended knee! I say keep him through the Olympics and teach him to use Mr. Washie!

  113. Ohh I want a yarn boy!
    I totally forgot to sign up and I’m glad that I rememebred today.
    I don’t really have a pattern in mind, I’m planning on just making it up as I go along. But it’ll be a sweater…I think. I keep changing my mind.

  114. I hate to do this to your potentially fragile sanities at this point, but sign me up for the Knitting Olympics! (I obviously have completely disregard for my own sanity). I’ll be knitting a Baby Blanket.

  116. Ha! You say it too! I once told my husband something was “scary as all get out” and he just looked at me when I tried to explain, and I think right then and there he decided that yes, I was completely insane, just as he had always suspected.

  118. Er’hm…I am one of those people who wears makeup in order to look “natural”. I work at an office that is managed out of Ft. Worth, TX, and they are real big on wearing cosmetics if you are facing the public (I’m the receptionist). “natural” makeup is much much better than some of the alternatives!
    As for the Yarn Boy…I would be green with envy if I weren’t laughing so hard!

  119. Please sign me up (better late than never)!! I’ll be knitting the Field of Flowers shawl in Helen’s Lace. Thanks Stephanie!

  120. Sign me up for the Olympics. I’ll be doing the Jaywalker socks, attempting the magic loop method.

  121. This is my first request to sign up for the Knitting Olympics. I would like to enter the category of Triknitathlon. The three events I am choosing to participate in will be: Setting up my first knitting blog (I was suppose to have it up by the first of the year, but have procrastinated. The only thing I have completed is registering a domain name and doing some testing), start knitting a pair of socks using a new technique that I am unfamiliar with (I will put all the techniques in a hat and will draw one when the opening flame is lit) (For example, trying knitting a toe I have never knit before or mastering a different type heel), knit some lace trim using .5 mm needles and thread (I’ve tried this before with 1.0 mm needles, so using a finer set of needles will be an Olympian challenge).

  122. Have I missed the deadline for the Knitting Olympics? I hope not. I’m knitting a felted tote bag that I’ve been putting off because it looks a bit scary. Thanks for giving me the inspiration to get it started. Now I only hope I finish…

  123. Already signed up for the olympics, but I realized I never gave you my projects. I went through all the on deck projects and ideas I had, as well as not quite ready to do yet but on my to get to list and realized no one thing that I was considering seeemed quite enough, or was over the top, will probably kill myself in the attempt, too much.
    With that in mind, in true (Winter) Olympic tradition I have decided to enter the biathalon.
    For the Fair Isle part of my event, I will be knitting Sally Melville’s KISS tote, or a variation thereof. For the lace portion, I will be knitting Birch.
    Where do I sign up for a Yarn Boy?

  124. greetings! please sign me up for the Knitters’ Olympics. i will finish all (6) incomplete pairs of socks lurking about my knitting, and knit a Calli vest from lusciousgracious from start to finish. the challenge will be over-coming the second-sock-syndrome I obviously suffer from! knit on!

  125. So a yarn boy is like a Cabana boy but without the drinks? Or can he bring drinks, too? I’d really want him to bring drinks AND unwind my yarn for me.

  126. this is my first post, and altho I am a weaver in real life, I admit that I must be part of this olympic challenge. What a fantastic idea. ok, so here goes…I will make the flower basket shawl, including the edging.

  127. Twist my arm…I’ll sign up for the Olympics and get the back done of the Aran sweater I am making out of handspun for my former housemate…it was her wool to begin with!

  128. yarn boy! lucky you!
    (rams, that is hilarious! as you wish! i love that movie!)
    ok harlot, i have undecided no more. my olympic project will be my sockapalooza socks (two birds with one stone eh?). pattern is still being decided.

  129. Sign me up for the Olympics! I will be knitting 2 pairs of socks and a pair of fingerless gloves.

  131. OK. I’m ready. I’ve made a decision. I think.
    I’m going to do a zip-front Rogue for my niece. Now, to choose a team… Team California. Now a color… Oh, hell, I have three days!

  132. I’m in! I’ll do the embossed leaves socks from the winter Interweave Knits. And where can I get me one of those yarn boys?

  134. I’m going to do it! I’m a new knitter and I’m excited. Please sign me up for the Olympics. Thank you so much for this challenge.
    I’m going to make a pair of yellow baby booties and a matching hat for the baby I hope to welcome in 2007. They’ll be newborn size and I hope to bring him or her home wearing them.

  135. Maybe I’m a paranoid athelete…but I didn’t notice my name on the list and I signed up a while ago…please enter me in the “Placket Sweater” category!

  136. Hi- I don’t usually write comments, but this time the world is too small! I work for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and we recently organized a show of a Chinese contemporary artist named Huang Yong Ping. That show is now at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in Boston. The elephant in your photo is one of the pieces in the exhibit- apparently being moved into the gallery!

  137. Ah, I figured you’d linked to my blog when I awoke to a pile of comments this morning! I *highly* recommend reading the comments because everyone is chiming in with excellent tips on healthier knitting postures, avoiding CTS and tendonitis, soothing tired muscles, and speedier knitting.
    There was a recent post (#10055) to Jeanie Townsend’s Yahoo group from a woman who takes her knitting when she visits her mother in a nursing home. Her mom holds the ball of yarn and understands when Marilyn needs a bit more yarn. It is their main form of communication. I cried when I read her post, then asked my daughter to let me hold her yarn someday…

  138. Ok I have worked up my courage, or whatever you want to call it, and am signing up for the Knitting Olympics. I will be knitting Samus from Knitty. It will be mine, all mine I tell you!

  140. Procrastination is my middle name… I would very much like to sign myself up for Tempting from Knitty and my Mom, Helen, for her very first hat.

  141. Ok, I have to second every Princess Bride comment made above. Although, I’d rather have him polish my Addi Turbos Thursday night than my saddle…
    From Tbilisi, Georgia, where we will be starting at midnight on Friday. My yarn is here, as is my warm up project which was lost in Munich for a while, so I’m ready.

  142. Torino is 7 hours ahead of Illinois, but all I can find is what time the broadcast starts, not when the ceremonies start. Any idea of the time I can cast on on Friday in Illinois?

  143. Have already sent you an e-mail, but here’s a panicky comment in case you haven’t yet received it (cos I don’t see my name on your list)! – Would like to enter the Knitting Olympics as a member of Team GB
    I plan to knit:
    either a mohair jacket/coat to my own design (I have 500 grams of mohair in
    the stash that says it wants to be a coat)
    or if the yarn I ordered some weeks ago arrives in time, the tweedy jacket
    by Leslie Scanlon from Interweave Knits Knitscene magazine (fall 2005).
    The challenge for me will be finding time to complete either of the above
    projects, as a) I work full-time and b) the final course for my degree
    starts this week, so that I have to fit in a certain amount of studying as
    well.

  145. I’m already signed up, but my son Casey (9) wants to attempt the Danica scarf from Knitty. Since it will only be his second knitting project ever, we might post it as (Danica) scarf, in case he changes to a simpler pattern.
    Thanks for the blog and the Olympics!

  146. Sign me up for the Olympics! After a week of waffling, I’ve decided to knit the Flower Basket Shawl. Lace has ever been my nemesis, but it’s time for me to face my fears and tackle this shawl!

  147. Another Olympian for the list. I’ll be making the super-sexy hot pink cabled angora halter top from the fall 2004 VK.
    All swatched up and rarin’ to go.

  148. I wasn’t sure how to sign up as an Olympiad either, so I sent you an email and now. . . I’m posting here, too. Sorry to be an idiot about it, but after ordering my yarn and all, I don’t want to miss out. I’ll be knitting “Marta” from The Best of Lopi.

  149. Hi,
    My name is Hanna and I’m from Finland.
    I want to participate to the Knitting Olympics. My work will be a child’s sweater with raglan sleeves.
    Kind regards,
    Hanna

  150. You know, this seems like one of those great Valentine’s Day swaps. The girlfriend/wife takes on whatever role the boyfriend/husband wants for one day (yes, this does include watching football and cheering for the appropriate team) for one day and for another day the boyfriend/husband gets to play the role of yarn boy.
    I just love the way he’s kneeling at your feet.

  151. Sign me up for the Knitting Olympics, I will attempt my first vest based on a pattern I have drawn.

  152. Okay no one else has said it, so I have to ask — Does the yarn boy merely fetch, hold and unwind, or does he also (ahem) spin? If so, take him home as a perk! It’s one way to finish that pesky project. Rams, love the Princess Bride comments – I’m gonna pull out that movie as one of my background noises for times when the other Olympics or BSG aren’t on the TV.
    On another note, everyone wish me luck!? As warmup to the KO, I’m going to try to handfelt pieces of a handbag. Silly me made it, then read the directions *headsdesk*. Felt each piece separately. Right. I’m an apartment dweller. One load of laundry costs $6 and there’s eleven pieces to this bag! So, hand-felting tomorrow night. Any and all suggestions welcome.

  153. Please sign me up for the Knitting Olympics. I will be knitting clogs for my son in law (my daughter is knitting clogs for one of her sons). Clogs may not sound like much but I’m recovering from tendinitis & also have to finish a Wwonderful Wallaby for one of the too cute grandsons. Do you think I could get a Yarn Boy to massage my shoulders & arms when they get tense from knitting or keyboarding (to stave off the tendinitis)?

  154. Please sign me up for the Knitting Olympics. When you first announced this event, I figured there was no way I was good enough to finish something but my thoughts have changed. I will be knitting a pink adult sized sweater (my first). It’s very plain but nice.
    Evelyn RN

  155. I think we need to start a Yarn Boy training camp so we all can have one! That could be simply lovely. “Yarn Boy, move the marker down on my chart please. And would you get me a stitch marker so I can flag this new repeat?” 😀

  156. Sign me up — it’s my only chance to be an Olympian ever. After much indecision about yarn choice, I’ve settled on the Veste Everest from the fall 2005 issue of Interweave Knits in dark blue Peace Fleece. Thanks!

  157. This has nothing to do with yarn boy – although – I WANT one!
    On Yahoo news, there was an article about the Olympic athletes being dissatisfied with living conditions in the Olympic Village.
    That made me start thinking . . . what would the Knitting Olympic Village be like? I would definitely be staying there!!!

  158. It’s all come together for me this morning. I am going to knit Tiptoe socks for my sockpaloooza pal, so how can I *not* join this mammoth beast of a kal? It’s fate. I’ve just ordered the yarn, however, so depending on when it arrives I may finish just one or I may be able to do the pair. (Too cheap to pay for expedited shipping – I hope this doesn’t make me a traitor to Team Sock) 🙂 Thanks for the great idea!

  159. I signed up for the Olympics weeks ago, so of course I’m getting worried that I might have been missed (since I’m not on the list yet). But WOW, 3000 entries! Well if I wasn’t overlooked, I’m the Rhonda from M.I.T. doing the Andean Treasure Vest from KnitPicks. I can feel the excitement building!

  160. Kneeling in devotion in that picture. YarnBoy got that one just right.
    As for the elephant, my first reaction was, in MASSACHUSETTS? Don’t they know that in Mass, it should be *donkeys*? My far-right-Republican-Senator-grandfather had an elephant collection. I got given one of them, in handblown crystal. It set off the bomb detector in the airport and made quite a scene. Somehow I (with very different political leanings) find that very funny!

  161. Sign me up for the Olympics please. Shawl or sweater, it’s a yarn race. Thanks for the fun though. Hope the needles don’t catch fire.

  163. Yep, another one…nothing like waiting till the last day to sign up for the Knitting Olympics. I’ll be doing the Highland Triangle Shawl from Folk Shawls.
    Will you be casting on your sweater during class at the Madrona Winter Retreat on Friday?? I wonder how many of us will be there…mini Knitting Olympics Village!

  165. It has taken me a while to figure out that my challenge should be a technique rather than a project. Please sign me up for the Knitting Olympics. I will knit a Fair Isle cardigan (1 year size), working only in Continental style. Since I’ve been knitting for 45 years in a hybrid left-hand throwing style, this will definitely be a challenge, especially when working with two colors over the finger.
    Carol R. Austin, Texas

  166. Please sign me up for OLYMPICS! I have decided that I am going to drop spindle 8 oz of fibre and hand knit the resulting yarn (likely mittens or hat). That will be a first for me as have only done small bit of drop spindling and never knit one item from the resulting yarn.

  167. I admit it. I’ve been procrasting about joining in because I wanted to finish all my works in progress and do something like learn to make socks. Then I had unexpected company (staying in the knitting room), an increase of work in my already full work week,and the list goes on and on. It seems that now the biggest challenge will be to finish those two ponchos I intended to gift at Christmas. So I’m down for finishing unfinished projects.

  168. I debated whether to join, considering that I have finished only one self-designed baby hat since my twins were born last spring, but I can’t resist this! I will knit socks from Charlene Schurch’s new book. While I have knit tons of socks, finding the time to knit consistently (or do anything other than play with babies!)is an Olympian task for me these days! 🙂
    I’m going to sign up under Team Scotland, too–just visited the rellies this summer!–but I hope to hit the Team Boston parties, since I live there. Is party-crashing allowed? :-O
    Sheila in Boston

  170. Oooo! A yarn boy! Hmmm… I wonder how much maintenance they take?
    I hate makeup. Of course, I’m allergic to makeup, so that doesn’t endear it to me. I don’t suppose you were able to convince them to skip the makeup step?

  171. I’m all in for the Knit Olympics. I’ll be doing Knitty’s Blu for my 2 year-old daughter. Too cute and let the games begin!

  172. Count me in for the Knitting Olympics. I’ll make one pair of men’s socks, using the Knit for Victory pattern.

  174. I would like to sign up for the Olympics.
    My goal is to complete my first clothing project, which I am already working on, but I would like to finish it and need inspiration. I will also be challenging myself by trying out new stitch patterns and colorways.
    I hope this counts to compete, I just couldn’t find a project I liked enough to knit constantly for 16 days (other than my current one)
    I’m really excited and gearing up for the Olympics!!!

  175. I’d like to join in the Olympics. I haven’t finalized which project I’ll be working on yet, but it will most likely involve cables. (I still haven’t unpacked all the yarn and knitting paraphenalia since we moved almost two months ago. That’ll have to be my training the next few days.)
    oh, and congrats on the Yarn Boy 😉

  177. Okay, okay, okay … I’ll do it. I’ll branch out from scarves and do my first baby poncho for the Olympics.

  178. sign me up for the knitting olympics – I am knitting a pair of socks – broadripple from knitty

  180. I’m in for the olympics. 🙂 Like many others, I’m doing the pirate hat that apparently is a really popular choice. Well it /is/ seriously cool. I’m aiming for hat and matching mittens. Must find yarn!

  181. Are we going to have summer knitting Olympics, too?
    The Knitting Olympic Village would have to be well stocked with cashmere, koigu, and chocolate.

  182. Please sign me up for the Olympics too – I’ll be tackling Bristow from Knitty, which qualifies me for the USA Cable Knit team.
    USA! USA! USA!

  184. Okay — I held out as long as I could, but I surrender to the almighty power of the Yarnharlot. I’ll be knitting for Canada in the Olympics — toe-up socks. My first ever finished pair. If this succeeds, then I’ll try to complete an entire sweater by the Vancouver games in 2010.

  185. I too would love to have my very own yarn boy, but after a bit I would feel obligated to feed it and then would probably end up having to clean up after it too!
    I do love the elephant photo. I wonder which would weigh more – the model or a real elephant?
    For the Olympic challenge – a black and gold Baby Suprise Sweater in honor of the winning Steelers… Darling Grandaughter needs a new sweater as do 3 Niece & Nephews. Thanks for the challenge!
    Jenny in Pittsburgh

  187. For the Olympics I am knitting 2 baby hats (my first ones ever) and a pair of felted clogs for the wonderful woman who taught me how to knit.

  188. Knitting for SCOTLAND – babies garnstudio cardigan with stars and squares. (at least I’ll use up some of my years’ old stash, even if I don’t finish in time!)

  189. OK, sign me up for the Knitting Olympics (nothing gets me fired up like waiting until the last minute).
    I’m either doing the “Bamboozelle Basket” from knitty.com, or I’m finally going to create the “two-pocket, double-knit, felted purse” I’ve been promising to my customers since last fall’s Wailin’ Jennys concert.
    Between our shop’s anniversary (three years this Friday), the Knitting Olympics, the other Olympics, and the Yukon Quest Dog Sled Race, I’m going to be a very busy girl through February. YIKES!!
    Oh, Yarn Boy, Yarn Boy, whereart thou Yarn Boy?

  192. Hello,
    not too late to subscribe to the Knitting Olympics ?
    I am Christine, from France, and will knit a Fair isle cardi (my own design), size 3 years. Thanks for the organization !

  193. Hey Stephanie.
    Sign me up – I’m doing a lace scarf – my 1st lace!
    Thanks for rallying the knitters for this great big knitting party!
    Warmly,
    Martha

  194. I’d also like to join the Knitting Olympics, with the Sybermoms team. 🙂 I’ll be making my first knit hat. Thanks for organizing all of this!!

  195. I’m happy to report that I am in possession of a Yarn Boy myself. My YB (aka my husband Juanny) not only holds and winds my yarn but makes me handmade knitting needles!! Last week when I couldn’t find size 15 DPN’s anywhere, he went and MADE ME a set!!!
    For Christmas he bought me an oak swift, ball winder and a set of Denise needles!!! Good Yarn Boy!!!
    Oh, and NO he’s not for rent or purchase so back off…..he’s under 24 hour surveillance so don’t try anything funny!! ;o)

  196. Sign me up for the olympics!!
    I’m knitting an Oat Coture cabled vest. This is a chalange for me because I have never managed to FINISH an actuall garment besides socks. I only have 1/4 of the back done and I haven’t touched it in MONTHS. So it’s almost like new…and i will finish it!

  197. Yarn boy, polish my horse’s saddle. I want to see my face shining in it by morning.
    …As you wish
    Yarn boy, fill these with water.
    …As you wish
    Yarn boy, unravel this tangle of mohair and silk…please.
    Yes. I could use a yarn boy, I think.
    And, as to the olympics: Striped baby blanket.

  199. To (sort of) answer the mystery of the concrete elephant. I think that it’s part of a new installation at MassMOCA – The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA. I’m guessing a little bit, but I know that Stephanie’s publisher is Storey Books and that they’re headquartered at that complex. Also, the building in the photo that is behind said concrete elephant looks an awful lot like the brick of the refurbished mill that makes up the museum. I’m fortunate to have all of this just about 45 minutes north of me.

  201. 3k of us is just overwhelming!. I just listened to your podcast on About time and you were wondeful. You really do give a lot to this strange community of wonderful knitters. Thanks for all that you do!

  202. well, if you have time, im knitting legwarmers. i meant that they were my project for the olympics. but if you dont have time to change it, thats okay too.

  204. Sign me up for the Knitting Olympics. I simply cannot be left out of such an event. Is this where I sign up? I’m going to attempt to actually finish my first pair of socks. I have plenty of old maid socks – those who never found/created a mate. Is this where I sign up. I couldn’t find anywhere else.

  205. Please sign me up for the Olympics. I will try to knit the ribbed sweater from the Debbie Bliss 5 book. My first non-baby sweater! Hooray!

  206. OH! Alright! Sign me up. At the moment I am seriously considering Rogue, and probably won’t change my mind, but if I do… Well if I do, I do. That’s that.

  208. Sign me up for the Knitting Olympics. I am going to knit my first pair of socks!!!

  209. I’m giving in and signing up for the Olympics. I will be knitting lace. A wide scarf or shrug.
    The last lace I knit (other than a little bit on socks) was my son’s christening blanket. He’s now a United States Marine. It’s been a while .

  210. o wondrous harlot, please have your yarn boy sign me up for the olympics. an intarsia sweater of my own design, using yarn recently hand dyed (with pokeweed berry juice, no less!).

  211. opps – better also list me as ‘ThreadBndr’ that’s my yahoo name on sockknitters and my logon on Knitter’s Review. Sorry, new to the whole blog thing.
    Karla

  212. Hi, I have tried several times to join, not showing up on the list. But I will give it one last time. My yarn and needles at the ready for a pair of socks.

  213. I would like to join the Olympics, if I still can! Over the years I’ve knit many a single sock, but never a whole pair. It’s obviously a mental challenge I need to overcome. Bring on the socks!

  214. How’s this for a last minute request. I would appreciate getting on the Team Canada list. I will be knitting a sweater for my adult daughter in Wool Gatto. Thanks.

  215. OK! My cousin convinced me to give this a try. I will be knitting the dress I was suppossed to wear for Christmas. I teach so I will be praying for a snow day so I can knot while watching curling!

  216. My Olympics entry: I will be knitting the two sleeves to my husband’s aran sweater (of course, I have to design the sleeves before Friday). These are the final steps (other than the collar) to me finishing his long awaited aran sweater – a sweater that he has begged me for for almost all of the 17 years that I have known him – before you brand me a mean wife, consider this: my husband is 6’5″ tall, with a 39″ sleeve. With all that work, I had to make sure that he was going to be around – I guess he has waited long enough.

  217. I hope I’m not too late to join the Olympics! I will be knitting my first pair of socks (I did do Fuzzy feet before but they were slippers and much bigger so I don’t think they should count :D) I’m going to try Thuja from knitty.com

  218. Please sign me up for the Olympics. I will be making my first ever socks: toe-up & magic loop.
    They are Elfine’s leaf-lace socks from Amelia Raitte: My Fashionable Life.

  219. Oh, I just made it (I hope). I MUST be in the Olympics too! Pretty Please?? Undecided on the project but possibly Clapotis or a felted bag…do I have to finish felting it within the 16 days too or just knitting it?
    I have a yarn boy but I would NEVER call him that (out loud)!!! Hubby retrieves errant yarn, unknots messes and VOLUNTARILY holds a new skein now and then 🙂 Such a nice guy…I’ll just continue silently thinking of him as my own personal ‘yarn boy’. Who, me, spoiled? No way!

  220. Due to the mysterious disappearance of my 000’s, I will instead by attempting a sweater for my love. This should be good. If anyone cares, I’ll be doing the zigzag sweater from Knitpicks out of Wool of the Andes, in the color Myst

  221. Sign me up for the knitter Olympics, please! I’ll be knitting the over-the-Knee Socks from Handknit Holidays. I’m aiming to do two socks on two circulars or maybe even one circular: During warm-ups with another sock, I killed a needle � a really swell addi Natura. The bamboo just sheared right off. Dang it.

  222. hooray! my yarn arrived today and I saw my name on the list! I am so jazzed. I was tracking the yarn on UPS and when it said it had been delivered I informed my boss I had a slight emergency and had to leave for a bit. Didn’t want to risk a neighbor kid making off with it! And made my coworkers admire my name on the list. I think they think I need a life but I’m a happy crone today!

  223. Like others before me I’m going to apologize if this causes a double sign up but I really thought I had emailed an entry for the Knitting Olympics after very very very carefully reviewing all the “K” entries I don’t see my name. I know it’s getting close to the deadline but please add my name. I’ll be doing a poncho, start to finish. The pattern and stitch are actually quite simple, so I can work on it anywhere, anytime (the back of a moving car, waiting in line at the post office, happy hour at the bar – you get the idea) my Olympic goal is to truly “go the distance” and get the entire thing done!

  224. I want to participate, but I don’t know what it will be yet. I will let you know in the next few days.
    Thanks,
    Lynn

  225. Hi!
    My daughter and I decided this was the year we learned how to knit socks – so sign me up for one pair (I hope!) for the Knitting Olympics. But don’t enter my daughter – how ever would I counter “But mom, I couldn’t do my homework, I had to finish my socks!”

  226. OK, I can’t resist any longer. Sign me up for knitting a felted tote from the Pursenalities book by Eva Wiechmann. http://www.save-on-crafts.com/pu20grknandf.html
    I’m thinking of buying a pair of HandEze Craft Gloves too. Not because my hands get sore, but because it’s not a real sport without special gloves and/or shoes.

  228. A yarn boy!! That is a perk. 🙂
    Incidentally, I signed up toward the beginning and still don’t see myself on the list. Another Jessica is knitting a fair isle headband as well, so there might be some confusion. Just thought I’d let you all know. Thanks for doing this!

  229. I am already signed up for the KO but I’m not sure if you are bothering to make these kind of updates at this point. I’m going to be learning to knit my socks using circular needles, toe-up and I’ve added my blog site! Thanks in advance for all the stress & fun!!

  230. Judy, from Solon, OHIO
    I would like to joing the knitting olympics 2006. I will be knitting Artyarns Diamond Modular Scarf.

  231. I’ve waffled long enough. Sign me up, please! I’m planning to knit the garter stitch squares scarf from Nancie Wiseman’s “Knitted Shawls, Stoles, and Scarves” book.

  232. I’ve been debating with myself for days about whether I should sign up for the knitting olympics or not, but the deadline has forced me to make it up right now! I’ll do it! (hope it isn’t too late after all of that) Despite the heat (go Team Australia!) I’ll most probably be knitting a zip up hoodie (I’ve never knitted anything with a zip before…), depending on if I can get the right yarn on short notice.

  233. It’s mother-daughter Knitting Olympics at our house in Rhode Island!
    My 10 year old, Alana, will be making a cool knitted belt with beads. I will be doing a Malabrigo top-down cardigan in a beautiful blue.
    Also, our friend Kate is knitting the Thuja socks from knitty for her rocket-scientist beau.
    Thanks for the inspiration and motivation, Stephanie!
    Lisa

  234. OK, so I’ve been reading and trying to decide whether or not to enter. Throwing caution to the wind LOL, I have decided to enter with the Thuja socks from knitty.com. I’ll be doing them in Koigu. These will be my first socks. Dare I say I will make a matching pair for me and my DD4??? OK, I will say it, matching mommy and daughter Thujas (which will mean a pattern re-working on my part, oy!).
    I just discovered your blog a few weeks ago but this is my first comment. Thanks for inspiring me!

  235. If it is not too late, I have a bobble hat I will try to complete during the Olympics. Here in Maine we’ve not needed hats too much this winter, but there might be a chance that winter will once again return…
    hannah

  236. In MA? xxxXXXZOMGZXXXxxx (I TOTALLY say this as a joke. I think that people who say OMG at all are…well that’s not the point). I’m honored to be in the same STATE as the harlot. 3000 knitters is A LOT. Wow. I just got my yarn today so I’d best be winding. Toodles.

  237. I just finished spinning and plying 4 oz of Lambspun Golden Meadow. I’ve got a pattern in mind and knitting needles ready to go. Knitting Olympics, here I come!

  238. I will be attempting to make a sweater for my husband which I have been putting off for a year-I have the yarn and pattern just hanging out in the stash! Could you please add me to the olympics list? Thank you for the kick in the pants I needed to get this thing done!!

  239. To the officials of the Knitting Olympics –
    Amazing work. We bow in reverence at all the listing, correcting, etc. Wow!
    On another note, in reading all the comments (yes, I do need to get a life, but this is so much fun), I have noticed the mention of only one sport from those “other” Olympics gets repeated; curling! Is there a special connection between knitters and curling? A thing to ponder…
    Almost 3000 of us?? Yikes! WE RULE!!!

  240. Hi, Stephanie,
    Please sign me up for the Knitting Olympics. My event will be lace for the first time–probably a swatch and then a sock.
    Thanks for all you do to inspire your readership.

  241. I’m in, I just can’t resist a deadline. I’ll knit the Gauntlets from Not Just Socks by Sandi Rosner. Go Team Wales!

  242. I’ve changed my mind already – rather than dash out and buy new yarn for a hoodie, I will use up some stash yarn to knit a mohair jumper (that’s a sweater in case you don’t understand what this Aussie is talking about).

  243. Please sign me up for the Olympics! Sorry I’m so late to the party, but better late then never! I’m going to make my first pair of socks – although I’ve made more complicated things, fine yarn and skinny needles frighten me a tad…off to SnB to start ‘training’!

  244. By the look of the number of comments you will be cursing reminding us all to sign up before midnight. I am going to do a pullover from the garnstudio site drops no. 83, pattern 5. I have knit very little in the round (am a bit worried about tension) and have never knit a sweater with a yoke pattern. I bought the yarn a year ago and was going to attempt to translate the pattern, sometimes procrastination can be beneficial as garnstudio has translated it.

  245. It’s 9:02 pm and I’ve finally made up my mind to join! Thank you for hosting this and hopefully mine is one of the last names you have to enter 🙂
    I am going to be knitting a cabled neck cowl, modified from “Last Minute Knitted Gifts”.
    Let the games begin!

  249. My Yarn boy’s going skiing with his brother for 2 weeks so sign me up for the olympics.
    I have 2 options
    #1 musa pullover from needful yarns book 303 (front cover) in a combo of Hand Maiden Stretto and Debbie Bliss SoHo (blues and browns)
    or if my samples don’t work out
    #2 your snowdrop shawl
    I have only just got back into knitting after 10 years, and am now obsessed. If only I didn’t have to work!
    Who needs sleep?
    I have lots of coffee…………. and wine.

  250. Was the Yarn Boy single? He is cute! I wonder…does he have other talents?
    I still don’t see my name on the list so I apologize if you all just haven’t posted it yet, but I thought I was signed up pretty early.
    I am going to either knit my daughter’s shrug out of Sirdar Snowflake (black bling) and/or work on the Lotus blossom lace shawl from the Best of Knitter’s Mag “Shawls and scarves” that I have hardly touched in a year. Christmas knitting seems to always get in the way of other things, doesn’t it!?

  253. I hope I am not too late! Got caught up in work but please, please add me to the Olympics too. I would very much like to knit a baby Kimono for my partner at work but cannot seem to find the pattern I saw somewhere on the internet – open to suggestions. Will try and find one on the weekend. I am being optomistic and knitting pink (backup plan is the blue sweater on the go already but now have a feeling baby is a girl). Work is crappy but the Olympics (knitting and the sporting stuff) has given me something to get excited about.
    Thank you muchly — Go Canada!!!!!!

  254. Please sign me up for the Olympics. I fear the email I sent in last week has not been received as I am not one of the many Lesley/Leslie’s listed in the most recent updates. I am so geared for this event and fear the email has gone astray!
    I am knitting an Elizabethan Lace scarf out of Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud. It’s my first lace attempt.

  256. Okay, my husband wanted to know why I wasn’t signing up, so here I am! What a cool idea!!
    I will enter a mitered poncho.
    Good luck to all my buddies from Prince William Purlers!
    And good luck to all the athletes!

  258. I suffer from mild carpal tunnel, especially when I go into power-knitting socks. To combat this, I read someplace that if you have a wrist brace (I have two called “thumb things” from a company called RU Outside – ruoutside.com) don’t wear them when you try to knit. How people manage to do this, I have no idea. But DO wear them at night when you sleep. This goes along with Beadlizard’s advice about not sleeping with your hands fisted or tucked under your chin. If you wear them at night, you can go right into knitting the next day without pain. I have been doing this for about a year now, and it really works!
    I am thinking about changing my Olympics project. I have to dig through the yarn stash tonight to check my options.

  259. Thank you for organizing this inspiring event! I would like very much to enter the Olympics. The knit will be ‘Marianne’ from Rowan 37.

  260. I am entering (try #2) the Olympics. I am knitting socks (both at the same time) from my STASH – no new yarn purchase!! Now, I need to figure out how to wind the yarn without a Yarn Boy. I have a yarn cat, but he’s only good for unwinding.

  261. Stephanie, you probably need to check at least the entries under Feb 1, as there are several entries at the bottom there. At least the one for Penny G. was duplicated here, ’cause I told her about it!

  262. Please sign me up for the Knitting Olympics. I’ll be making a cardigan and a Nordic ski hat.
    Thank you for your time and inspiring leadership.

  263. Sign me up, I am planning an all over mosaic sock pattern. Swatches are on my blog. umm think I need to do a swatch in the round 🙂
    Suzann
    I want a Yarn boy for my bday

  264. The yarn boys sound like something we should all have!!!
    Thanks for getting me on the list of Olympic Knitters. I noticed you didn’t enter my event in. I know how busy you must be trying to finish this all up before the opening ceremonies but…. I plan to make socks for my event. My blog is at http://lyzsthoughts.blogspot.com/
    and I am hoping to post some pictures of my progress as the event unfolds over the 16 days.
    Thanks again,
    Lyz

  265. ah, peer pressure and a love of a challenge…I’ll be attempting the Northern Lights Mittens for the Olympics. Thanks for organizing this!

  266. Late sign up, I’m throwing my hat into the mix too. I’ll be making the Branching Out Scarf and it is my first attempt at lace.
    Thanks.

  268. Please sign me up for the Knitting Olympics. I am going to knit a pair of Fair Isle socks. What a great idea this is!

  269. Mmm… Yarnboy. Suddenly “Love Is Strange” is playing in my head. Loverboy? Oh, Loverboy? C’mere, Loverboy!

  270. Sheesh…I am in awe of your knitting and your writing but I cannot even begin to imagine how in the world you and the others are getting all of us into any semblance of an organized list. Hats..and gloves and scarves off to y’all.
    And, if anyone is truly bored, could they please email me and tell me how to put my Olympics button in my brand new blog? good grief, I even have to figure out how to make links. But am sooo proud of my button

  271. Thank you for so much patience and generosity in organizing this event. I too would like to join.
    I’ll be attempting the aibhlinn in zebra colours.
    santih
    **CV

  274. Hi Stephanie
    Please sign us up for the Knitting Olympics. We all work at a yarn store in White Rock, BC, called Knitopia, so we are calling ourselves Team Knitopia.
    We are:
    Lynne- she will finish 6 projects in progress that have been sucking energy from her soul for quite some time now
    Roz – she is knitting a Top Down Hemp Sweater
    Judy – she is knitting Meg Swanson’s Box the Compass Sweater
    Frauke – she is knitting 2 pairs of socks and 1 pair of mittens.
    And we will all be at the Madrona Fibre Arts Fest, so hope to see you there!
    Thanks!!!

  275. I just have to note that I am participating in the Olympics with all the rest, attempting the Pippi Kneestockings from SNB. This will be my first attempt at turning a heel.

  276. Oh! Oh! Can I still join? I want to be an Olympic Knitter! My project will be the Weasley sweater I have been putting off. There will be more info at my blog if you or anyone is interested. I *hate* to make more work for you, and if I have actually missed the deadline, please let me know. Thank you for thinking this up, and yay knitting!
    Robin
    rdreinke at wisc dot edu

  278. Hi, Please sign me up for the Knitting Olympics. I will be knitting Lucky from Stitch ‘n Bitch Nation.
    My daughter Cassie would like to sign up also. She will be knitting a doll blanket.
    Thanks,
    Olivia

  280. I’d like to join the Knitting Olympics, please! I’ll be knitting a ballet wrap sweater with light pink Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran. Yea! And I don’t have a blog (gasp!).
    Thank you!
    Jessica Cary in NYC

  281. Sign me up! I sent you an email just now and I wasn’t sure if commenting was easier for you to keep track of. I’m knitting Tempting II from Knitty.
    thanks so much for doing this!!!! it’s simply AMAZING.

  282. This really couldn”t be much more last minute. First time to post a comment and have decided to commit myself for the olympics. Even if it’s too late I’m going to finish Annabel Fox’s Nordic fairisle from Rowans Book No.4 which has been languishing for a couple of years and if that’s successful then I’ll also complete “Hans” another fairisle started for my husband. I’ve finished the front on this but it too has hung around for two years. Putting this in print somehow makes this somehow a real obligation and will make more room for new yarn. I love the games and this is really the only time I ever watch sports at all. Thanks so much for the public opportunity for such a personal challenge. I just bet that you’ll be careful about throwing down the gauntlet again!

  283. I would like to register for the Knitting Olympics. I’m going to make Berroco’s free shrug pattern SARENA in true teal Softwist, for my 22 year old daughter. Wish me luck. I only have 20 other UFO I should be working on instead!

  284. I want a yarn boy. To keep near me forever.
    Seriously, I’m wondering what happened to your mobius thingie??? I didn’t sign up for the knitters’ olympics but I was quite inspired by your mobius enthusiasm, set myself a goal of making one, figured out how to do it annnnd…
    Did it! It’s done!
    Jery from Portland [the mountain lady]

  285. Hi and I’m signing up for the knitting olympics (sorry if this a repeat). I’m knitting my first sweater! I also started a Team India so please come and join me. Mani from Philadelphia USA PA 🙂

  287. Well, I’m already signed up and on the page (second “Liza” the one that’s undecided), but I thought that I’d let you know I’m no longer deciding. I’ve made a decision and will be knitting Candace from Bee’s Knees Knits (URL for anyone interested http://www.beeskneesknits.ca/pattinfo3.html#candace ) and if I actually manage to finish that I’ll be making some “Ugg” booties (http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/na_knitting/article/0,2025,DIY_14141_3148516,00.html ) as well.
    I’m really stoked about this and have even started a blog (http://mylifeinbrackets.blogspot.com/ ) to track my progress or lack there of.
    Good luck to all participants.
    Liza {who’s wondering if there’s a way to set up a coffee IV, she’s gonna need it}

  288. Stephanie, I thought I would update with my project, since I was originally undecided. (For the convenience of those entering names, I am not currently listed.)
    I’ll be finally finishing an Aran sweater I designed and worked on for the entire time I was pregnant with my son, who is now almost two. This will involve unknitting the ribbing on one sleeve (that has been shortened) and fixing it for the ninth time, shortening the other sleeve to match and adding ribbing, and reworking the ribbing at the bottom. (The ribbings expanded when I first wet the whole thing. The cabling did not. It was unwearable.)
    This may not fit your definition of a Knitting Olympics event, since it is not a new project; but it is easily the most difficult project I could choose to do in that time frame. Include me on the list or not, as you wish.

  289. I forgot to add that I’m Canadian, so put me on the Canadian Team (West Coast branch)!!!

  290. Sign me up for the Knitting Olympics. I am going to be making the lacy cardigan from Katia #49.

  292. Gosh! A yarn boy! Impressive!
    I want to sign up for the Olympics, please!! I plan on doing a pair of socks. My schedule is so busy – it will be a challenge to get it done within the time alotted. I haven’t made a complete adult sized pair yet! Thanks!

  294. Another last minute joiner here, if I still can. I’m going to make the Irish Hiking Scarf–my first cable attempt. Plus it’ll be a challenge for me just to get the thing done. I’m kinda slow and easily distracted. Thanks!

  295. So, who wants to write up a song for the Yarn Boy?
    Totally needs a song of his own. And it’s gotta be a good one too!

  296. sign me up too, i’m practically a knitting virgin, know no lingo, make no socks, could string up the whole family with the scarves i’ve knitted though! I’m not sure what i’ll attempt, venturing away from scarves is like going to Mordor for me. Whatever it is, I’m going into the precious stash. so, at least i know that my fingers will be comforted by wool from the farm-witch even if i’m poking my eyes out with the knitting needles.

  298. Maybe I can be the last? I want to get to the armhole steek on my first fair isle, but my yarn hasn’t arrived yet. So it might be knitting from stash.

  300. Sign me up. I am making some armwarmers for my step Mom who has arthritis in her hands. I am planning to spin the yarn on a handspindle and knit it in Fair Isle.
    Jane

  301. I was’t going to join. I was going to be good and just be a sideline cheerleader. I have decided to follow the crowd. I am going to knit Pafuglehale (Peacock’s Tail) from yarnover.com.

  302. I sent you an email yesterday about joining, don’t know if you received it. 🙂 Just in case, it’s a feather and fan stitch scarf (Misty Garden from Scarf Styles).

  304. It’s only 9:37 pm where I am on the west coast. If there’s still time, please add me to the Olympics. I’ll knit a yellow clapotis.
    I can knit it without a Yarn Boy but it won’t be as much fun.

  305. I have just found your blog while doing a google search – how awesome!! I did send an email – I am in Texas so it was not midnight yet here. Hope it is ok. I am going to knit custom “Have a Nice Day” scarves for Jon Bon Jovi and his band. I am going to their concert in Houston on Feb 21st, and will throw them on the stage (much more useful than throwing bras or panties!!;)

  306. sign me up please!!!
    ill be doing knitty’s branching out. ive never done anything outside of plain garter stitch scarves before and im excited to be trying something new.

  307. Hello fellow-knitters 🙂
    Hope I’m not late!
    It’s already 9:00am on Wednesday Feb 8th here in Finland but perhaps there’s still time to sign up for the Olympics?
    For some reason I remembered that the deadline is on Thursday, hopefully you’ll mercy me if the deadline is already passed.
    My aim is to start and finish a bolero. Have already decided on the model, but the yarn is still open. Since my mind was set on Thu, thought that there’s no rush to make those big decisions such as yarn 😉
    My olympics blog: http://www.langalla.vuodatus.net

  308. Just past 11pm PST. Can I still sign up?
    I would like to do various projects that my friends and boyfriend have been patiently waiting for.
    Pasha from knitty (first knitted toy)for a co-worker, armwarmers for my friend, armwarmers for myself, Jayne hat for my boyfriend…
    and then I would like to knit up as much of my stash as possible during the rest of the time (if there is time!)
    Let me know if these projects do not qualify and if I should pick one single project.
    Tina H. in Seattle

  309. It’s 11:21pm here in Burbank, CA, so it’s before midnight, at least in my time zone. Sign me up!
    I’m going to do the Jaywalker socks, which will be my first socks in something other than 1×1 or 2×2 ribbing. Very special yarn for this.

  310. I hope we can still sign up for the olympics – It isn’t midnight yet here on the wet coast!
    I am going to attempt my first sock ever and my sister Laurie is going to do the same.

  311. Please dont leave me out of the fun – I want a yarn boy too! Very cute, but do they do dishes?
    As to the Olympics, my daughter and I would like to sign up and join Team Wales, if not too late. At eleven, my daughter will be knitting her second scarf and I, much older, will be knitting my daughter a bag of her own design for her “stuff”.
    We have both thought about our limitations and I think we are up to the challenge as we have been “in training” for some time. The pressure is on, the world is watching, and my son thinks I’m nuts. Looking forward to it. Thanks.
    Laurie in Vancouver

  312. It’s Karen again (knitting first sock ever) – Please sign me up for team Wales. (Apparently sister Laurie has already changed her project – see post above.)

  313. Hi Stephanie and fellow knitters.
    Please, please, please sign me up for olympics.
    Not sure if I sent previous message to the right site so sorry if I am doubling up.
    Never tried to put a comment on a blog before.
    I am begging now to be allowed to join the knitting olympics. Been a traumatic event trying to find where to join in. If perseverance gives you the chance of a gold medal, I won’t win one – I’m eligible for a swag of them.
    Planning on knitting a shug, pattern from The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine. If time left I will start on a pair of lacy beaded socks. I then will have an excuse to knit during the Commonwealth games that are due to start in Melbourne in a few weeks time.
    My needles will have to fly as I may have to hve a bone graft in my ankle during the olympics.
    At least I will have a rason to knit more. Bedridden and recuperating = knitting to save what little of my sanity I have left:-)
    Good luck to all knitters.
    Pam in Brisbane Australia.

  314. Hi Stephanie and fellow knitters.
    Please, please, please sign me up for olympics.
    Not sure if I sent previous message to the right site so sorry if I am doubling up.
    Never tried to put a comment on a blog before.
    I am begging now to be allowed to join the knitting olympics. Been a traumatic event trying to find where to join in. If perseverance gives you the chance of a gold medal, I won’t win one – I’m eligible for a swag of them.
    Planning on knitting a shug, pattern from The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine. If time left I will start on a pair of lacy beaded socks. I then will have an excuse to knit during the Commonwealth games that are due to start in Melbourne in a few weeks time.
    My needles will have to fly as I may have to hve a bone graft in my ankle during the olympics.
    At least I will have a rason to knit more. Bedridden and recuperating = knitting to save what little of my sanity I have left:-)
    Good luck to all knitters.
    Pam in Brisbane Australia.

  315. Help! – I want to get in….
    I wrote you a mail some days ago and requested you to add me to your list.
    I’m ready to start….
    I’d like to start with a Elisabeth Zimmermann “Bog Jacket”
    Hopefully thanks…. Avhy.

  316. Hey!
    I think I screwed up my singnig up. Yesterday I left a comment in Kat’s inbox. So did I miss the signing up? I’d really love to take part. I was planning to make a branching out shawl and an apple scarf. I hope I wasn’t too late…
    I have left my information also to the Finnish team’s website, so they know I’m trying to join the fun.
    I hope I made it to the Olympics!
    Piua, Finland

  317. Whooops…
    I wrote the previous comment with my nickname, but I’ve signed up to Kat’s page with my real name, Pia. if you have the time and I made it to the olympics, please note this. I checked that I had singned up before midnight your time, so I’m hopefull that I’m in the games…
    I’ll come later to see if I’ve been added to the list of competitors 🙂
    Thanks a million!
    Pia aka piua

  318. Hi!
    I’m sorry to tell to you that I won’t be able to take part in the Olympics after all… I got a surprise trip and just couldn’t say I can’t go because of the Knitting Olympics. All the best for the coming 16 days of “speed, power and high goals” knitting.

  319. I need to sign up too – typical academic, waiting until the deadline looms. I will be working on reknitting a piece, so I can remember and write out the pattern for friends. The piece is a … detachable penis.

  320. Sign me up for the Knitting Olympics please. There’s a pair of socks that I’ve been dying to try…this gives me a great excuse to cast them on and give it a whirl!
    Hugs! Juli

  321. Hi there – hmm, cute “boy” – gotta get me one of them! Meanwhile, an exceptionally anally retentive question regarding the Knitting Olympics (Insert your sigh *here*),. What time does it all end?? Is it 2 pm again or �? I have booked half a day’s holiday from work for the casting on (and to get a bit of a head start) but I need the heads up on where the final tape is for the finish!
    many thanks. T x

  322. I have always used the Olympics as an excuse to knit for two weeks, so I am really excited to sign up for the Knitting Olympics. I have never knit socks before, so my project will be Rose’s Hose from Jospeh Madl’s Sock Hop book for Philosopher’s Wool. Hey, I figure if you’re going to do something new, you might as well go big, so kilt socks are just the thing for me.

  324. ELEPHANT:
    if you were near Medford, MA when you were here, then it was probably the new statue of the TUFTS UNIVERSITY MASCOT– which is actually a mascot based on one of the elephants from the Barnum and Bailey circus,they donated the elephant to be stuffed at TUFTS. He’s gone now… but they were trying to put a new statue in front of Barnum Hall, I think. (worked at TUFTS for 2 years and I’m a “local”)
    :)Kate
    Let me know if you were in medford!

  325. I just wanted to change my project from Rogue to Kyoto since it doesn’t appear that the yarn for Rogue will be showing up in time :o\
    Thanks!

  326. Please sign me up if it is not too late. I am going to try and make a Booga bag…my first felted project. Much thanks!

  328. Dang it I want a yarn boy. I have a yarn cat, and well, that just doesn’t work out well *sigh* =)
    I would love to participate in the olympics. I realize it’s after the deadline but pleeease?? I will be making an Irish Hiking Scarf.

  329. My husband says he wants a yarn boy, if for no other reason than to say he has a yarn boy. I think he’s kinda missing the point. 😉

  330. amendment to entry:
    I cannot do the Geisha cape because of my school schedules and have to change what I’m doing to something easier to cart around with me….so I’m going to be doing the cabled shrug from Interweave fall 05.
    (there’s no need to email me back on this, I just wanted to let someone know officially that I’m doing this).

  331. Yet one more procrastinating knitter here…I would like to join KO. Im making the Jilly Bag from Two Old Bags. Its kind of easy for me but with 3 children under 7…well you get the picture. Thanks!!! You are always a great read!!

  332. I have been having carpal tunnel alot lately. My fingers tingle so much. Guess it was aggrivated by pregnancy, and is now improving due to being told WHAT CAUSES IT! Why didn’t they tell me that years ago so i wouldnt do such things! I wear braces at night (oh joy with nursing a 9 week old) but they are really helping!

  333. Hi I sent you a long winded email (sorry!) yesterday in it it stated that i wanted to be in the olympics… im just double checking that im in, by posting here… im a newbie so im going to atempt my first scarf…
    off to local knitting shops!!

  334. Wouldn’t it be cool to know how many countries we knitters represent in The Knitting Olympics. Any way to track it? Yeah Team Canada!! My needles are ready…..

  336. Since there are now in excess of 3000 of us, I decided we need a Knitting Olympics song.
    Sat on the train today finishing off my panta, I came to a bit that is K1, P2, and was merrily sat there singing under my breath, knit, purl, purl… knit, purl, purl.
    I decided we needed a knitting version of what I thought was The Frog Song, but turns out to be We All Stand Together, by Paul McCartney:
    —
    Knit or purl, rib or plain
    One thing is certain we won’t complain
    Side by side, wool in hand
    We all knit together
    Cast them on, bind them off
    Hats, scarves, and jumpers, maybe a sock!
    Round the world, wool in hand
    We all knit together
    La-
    Keeping us up late in the night
    La la la la
    Knit day and night
    You’ll get it right
    Repeat
    Knit or purl, rib or plain
    One thing is certain we won’t complain
    Side by side, wool in hand
    We all knit together.
    Heather

  337. I would like to join the Knitting Olympics, and will make an adult sweater in Tibet Silk/Wool; I’ve chosen enduro-knitting over technical difficulty. Here in Boston, unofficial entrants of the annual marathon – those without a demonstrated qualifying time – are called bandits. If I participate as a bandit, so be it. (You may remember me from Circles: the stalker with the orange dust jacket I made for your first book. I am indeed trying to trade on the possibility that you might remember me in order to squeak into the list.)

  339. Well, the Knitting Olympics made the front page of the “Living” section of the Oregonian, complete with knitted flag. Story, without photos, is here: http://tinyurl.com/bgf7m
    I won’t be participating because I’m FLAKing and leaving today for annual Winter Knitting Retreat in Tacoma. But, it’s been amazing to watch how this thing has, uh, snowballed.
    Eileen in Portland OR

  341. Gah! it’s from a movie I watched when I was a child.
    According to IMDB it’s the one from Rupert & the Frog Song, which I can’t link to.
    Unfortunatley I can’t find a link to the tune of it, and I suspet me humming and typing a lot of dum de dums might not help! I’ll see what i can do later!

  342. I wasn’t sure where to comment to join the knitting olympics. I’m planning on making some sort of a sweater, but I haven’t yet found a pattern that I like. Perhaps Tubey or Tempting from Knitty…

  345. I hope I can join in, even though the deadline is overdue..
    I diden’t keep track of the time..
    I’m knitting a bolero for myself! 🙂
    -Sisslesola in Norway

  346. Please sign me up. My name is Marianne B. I’m from Long Beach, CA. I will make a pair of socks with Opal yarn, two on one circular, using magic loop method.
    Good luck to all! Thanks Yarn Harlot!

  347. Oh, I’m in! I’ve been holding out to see if my yarn came in, but now I’ve decided on a self-designed cardigan. Thanks for being a great Olympic village hostess!

  348. I’ve caved. Count me in. I must join the ranks of those sobbing uncontrolably on at 11:59, Feb. 15, as they try frantically to finish.
    I’ll be knitting socks for my (male) cousin. Size 12 feet. Eep.

  351. Hi, I’m Carin, from New York City. I hate to do this, but can I still join? Sorry to make more work for you. If it’s really too late, it’s ok, I’ll understand, a deadline is a deadline.
    I want to make “Salina” from Vintage Knits, using Rowan Felted Tweed. My blog is bumblebeeknits.blogspot.com
    Thank you!

  352. Too late to join the OFFICIAL Olympic Knitting list, but a group of us here in mid-Missouri will set up a team. We’re posting a sign up list; we’ll get an e-mail support group going; and I hope that we’ll have at least a wall of finished project photos to show Feb. 26. Maybe I’ll get my blog up and running by then.
    THANK YOU! What a great way for us to get together and party! (I’ll be up for the 1:00am CT curling events starting Monday. Join me!)

  353. I hope its not to late to join. Its about 2:47 EST here on the 8th. I was gonna try and knit the Chinchilla Stole from the Lion Brand site.
    Thank you.

  354. I know its late but I’ll be knitting along with you other yarn olympians too! My second ever pair of socks in a red-white-blue colorway.
    Swift fingers and no frogs to you all!

  355. Oh no!!! I’ve been wrestling with myself about whether or not, and just today decided I will do it, knit a Debbie Bliss Maya long cardigan during the Olympics. But am I too late now??? Oh no!!!
    I will be knitting along with the Finnish team nevertheless…
    But if there are any late openings, please consider taking me in!
    Hanna Graeffe, Finland
    hanna.graeffe@sipoo.fi
    knitting a long red cardigan of Debbie Bliss Maya (Book 7)

  356. Hej,
    Did I really miss the deadline :-(. I’ve decided to knit Spencer and I so want to join the challange. I signing up with Team Sweden.

  357. I bet I missed the deadline, but I’ll be knitting along with y’all. My personal goal is to finish a few WIPs (finishing projects is a big thing 4 me!) and I will knit a pair of legwarmers and a poncho. Thanks so much for this opportunity — let the games begin! xo, miz beeswax

  359. After much thought about not wanting to burden your record-keepers with another entry to the Knitting Olympics, I decided to go for it. Please sign me up–I’ve got to take on the Latvian mittens challenge.
    Judith L.
    Wisconsin

  360. I’m IN!! I’m knitting “You Are My Sunshine” dress for my 6 yr old precious granddaughter, Cadi… using S. Charles Cancun and mercerised cotton yarn. Am now motivated to ‘go the distance!!’
    Thanks!!

  361. Hi, I hope it’s not too late to join… I’m knitting a wrap cardi, my first big project with lace. This is so exciting!:)

  362. I want to join in the knitting Olympics too. I will be knitting The Wrap Dress from Barefoot Knits by By Christine Schwender and Paula Heist. It will be for my youngest granddaughter’s fourth birthday.
    Patty in Arizona

  363. I want to join in the knitting Olympics too. I will be knitting The Wrap Dress from Barefoot Knits by By Christine Schwender and Paula Heist. It will be for my youngest granddaughter’s fourth birthday.
    Patty in Arizona

  364. I’ve been trying to figure out how to sign up for the Olympics, but I’m lost (not a blogger, you see). What do I do?
    I will plan on participating, anyway. I am going to do a baby pullover, with cables, and all sorts of neat stitches. Not challenging? Well, I am working full-time, and haven’t figured how to knit and type at the same time. Also, I’m using fingering yarn and #3 needles. We’ll see if it can be done!

  365. I’ve been trying to figure out how to sign up for the Olympics, but I’m lost (not a blogger, you see). What do I do?
    I will plan on participating, anyway. I am going to do a baby pullover, with cables, and all sorts of neat stitches. Not challenging? Well, I am working full-time, and haven’t figured how to knit and type at the same time. Also, I’m using fingering yarn and #3 needles. We’ll see if it can be done!

  367. I’m already joined up, but have decided to make my project entirely from my own hand spun laceweight merino/silk yarn (4oz/731 yards spun, 1.8oz/300+ more to go, no swatching done yet.)

  368. Am I too late for the knitting olympics? Please say no. I’m a crocheter who is going to attempt to knit a sleevless shell (beach cover up). Wish me luck.

  369. A day late and a dollar short. I will be knitting the Mukluks from the 2005 winter issue of Interweave Knits. I will be using vintage wool from my stash and substituting fashion fur I found at the fabric store for that super expensive Plymouth Foxy. That will be my challenge: how to attach the fake fur. And, actually finishing a project.

  371. Please sing me up for Knittingolympics, please!
    My goal is mohair-knitted tie front bolero with trumpetsleeves.

  372. Steph — my aunt has been trying to sign up for the Olympics and having PC issues. Can you please put “Sue C” down for an Aran sweater? THANKS!!!!

  375. I’ll be actually knitting “Branching Out” for which I purchased the yarn eons ago for ahem Christmas gifts for ummm… last year. For oh about 8 people. Have I made a single one yet? Nope. Lol. My goal is to finish one. Then we’ll see how it goes from there.

  376. Who knew that the deadline was so far in advance of the Olympics? Still want to participate with the Debbie Bliss Shawl Collar Jacket. Thank you.
    Marilyn

  378. Late I know, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to comment anyway.
    I’m am doing the knitting olympics and am knitting http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter05/PATTbobblicious.html. The challange being doing something for myself, and purling.
    My friends are also doing it, so instead of making them all post I said I’d do it.
    April – http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter05/PATTbobblicious.html
    Rosie -http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=62184.0
    Robin – Socks – her journal:http://yarn-floozy.livejournal.com/
    Jeff- (my boyfriend) I got him to participate, he’s learning to knit just for this and is making a purple and black scarf out of Homespun.
    Gayle-(Jeff’s mom)a 9 square pillow with various knitting stitches

  379. Note to Constantina- I DO shut up on occasion, Mom. I swear.
    However, if you are seriously considering leaving me with the Great and Wonderful Yarn Harlot for the weekend…
    (looks at Stephanie with big hopeful eyes) I’m all yours, Great and Wonderful Yarn Harlot! I will gladly haul yarn and stuff around all weekend.
    Would I get breaks to knit for the Olympics?

  380. I would still like to put in for the Olympics, even if it’s unofficial. I’m making my first sock. This is an awesome idea, by the way. Thanks!

  381. Stephanie, I know I’m late, but I hade to make up my mind. Sign me up for the Olympics. I’m knitting the Norwegian Olympic sweater for myself.

  386. You blog is lovely, I’ve been lurking and reading for a while 🙂
    I can solve the elephant mystery!
    The elephant is concrete on the inside, and stitched with cow leather on the outside. It’s one of Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping’s works and when it’s done installing, it’ll have a life-size concrete tiger on top. The artist has a retrospective at MoCA.

  387. Ooooh:( I missed the deadline! If there is any chance to still sign up, I’m going to do a pair of socks…If I cant still sign up, I’ll just knit along with y’all anywho:)
    Hugs & Best of luck to all!
    Erin

  388. My husband sent me this link! I just starting knitting, but want to take the challenge, even though I missed the deadline. I will knit along with everyone even if my name isn’t officially on the olympic list. I am undertaking a poncho as my project when the flame is lit!
    Thanks! Sandi

  390. late entry – i’m knitting shimmer from knitty in moody blue silk/merino. and i’m on team booze & yarn in NYC (thanks corinna!)

  392. I know I’m very late in signing up, but I’ve been plotting my Olympic Knitting for weeks. If you can find it in your heart, and fingers, to enter me, I’ll be attempting a cable-type sweater, which I have never done and challenging myself to finish three other small projects (which is harder than it sounds, I’m not much for “finishing”). I’m two inches into the sweater now that the opening ceremonies have concluded.

  393. My sister cued me in to the KO – I’m a new knitter and I’m working on a hat – involves yarn changes, knitting and purling and decreasing stitches. It will be a challenge for me. The game is on! Please add me to the K.O.! Thanks.

  394. I didn’t sign up because I kept looking for a place on here to click on that said “sign up here” or some email address to send a message. So, I guess I’m an unofficial ‘closet’ olympic knitter. I’m workig on a hooded sweater from the lionbrand.com free patterns, using Homespun – which has been a challenge just learning how to use that, but I think I’ve finally figured out how to use it without kinking and coiling it up. I left the pattern URL in the url box above, I’m guessing that was what I was supposed to do?

  395. This was the hardest thing to find on your site. How to get added to the olympic knitting. I can be an unoffical one if the deadline was 53 minutes ago. If I made the deadline, I am making 2 pairs of longies and a pair of soakers for friends.
    Thanks for offering a challenge,
    Gina

  396. Hi-
    I know I’m late, but I’m signing on the for the Olympics. I’ve started Grumperina’s Picovoli shirt in microspun.
    Thanks!

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