Olympic-ing!!!

I haven't really been following the Olympics that closely, well besides the men's diving and gymnastics, but I have been doing some Olympic yarn crafting so I decided that I should post about my Olympic crocheting since this is a yarn blog, and I am kind of held to it since it is in my name.

So I am crocheting The Midsummer Night's Shawl by Lisa Naskrent from an Interweave Crochet Summer 2010. It is so pretty, and it has been as long time since I have crocheted anything challenging. I am constantly challenging myself with knitting, but never with crochet. When I set out on this Olympic journey I knew that this had to change. I started this journey several months before the Games started, back when they were still the Ravelympics. Things have definitely changed since then. I am still as determined as I was then.

I started it the day of the London Olympics, in this beautiful alpaca lace yarn from classic elite, two hours after the London Olympic ceremonies started but 5 hours before NBC would be show the opening. There is a 6 hour delay for the Olympics that are 3,500 miles away, when stuff gets from the mars rover in 14 minutes. It was still a wonderful ceremony though, James Bond and the queen were quite adorable. All in all it was a good start to an awesome Ravellenic games.

Now I have done an awful lot of traveling not to London, so I decided that this was my little piece of Olympic swag that I should take with me everywhere

Here is it on a road trip to West Palm beach, where we would enjoy some cuban pastries together.

here it is with my eeyore pillow pet and some rainbowish socks on the way to new york city on the awful train ride

and here is a crappy cell phone picture of it, finally at home and in the final stretch of the Games, and I cannot wait to finish and block it and put it up on my wall