Although i haven´t signed up officially for ravelympics, I set myself a knitting challenge - one of my crafting goals for 2010, which was knitting with more than one colour, using stranding as a technique.
On the opening ceremony day and the weekend after, I went away to the seaside in Uruguay and, didn´t get to it - I love knitting but swimming in the sea comes before if I happen to be near the ocean. So, lots of swimming and no knitting at all!
Upon my arrival I had a new prototype for abbrigate* to finish, so all of the previous detours to say that it was only last friday I managed to cast on for my olympic challenge. Knitting two colours the portuguese style (with yarn going around your neck for tension) is just plain easy, there´s no juggling with yarn on the right or left hands, so I highly recommend it as a good technique for this kind of pattern.
I´m knitting a pattern of my own, it will either be a dress/tunic or a short sleeved sweater - let´s see how much yarn I have for it - for one of my nieces (or for both of them, considering the first will outgrow it sometime soon-ish), with a little doll pattern on the yoke and raglan sleeves. I´m using 2.5mm circulars and white yarn is industrial alpaca and the coloured one is my own hand-painted pure wool. The result is a lightweight warm sweater, perfect for end of winter and spring weather.
I know there´s a more than huge chance of not finishing it by the end of the olympics but all in all my challenge was to knit with two colours, a mission that has been accomplished with a high degree of satisfaction. It´s amazing how many new creative knitting-doors it opens!
What are your (knitting related or not) challenges?
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