Ravellenics Victory!

This weekend, I went off to Gallifrey One, the Doctor Who convention. As there was going to be a lot of waiting at the airport, it was a good chance to continue with my Ravellenics project. I brought my I had wound up half of a cake of new skein of yarn, figuring it would be enough.

Here's the sleeve at the airport, waiting for our flight. I'm done with 5/6 cables for the main body of the sleeve.

At Gallifrey, I managed to get some knitting time in at various panels, interviews, and at dinner/lunches. There were some hiccups, including one where I had to drop down 8 rows to fix mis-crossed cable. Plus, I kept looking at the shrinking ball of yarn, hoping I had brought enough. (I also brought my Color Affection with me, so I had plenty of knitting, but I really wanted to finish this sleeve!)

At one point, I actually stopped knitting on this project and picked up the Color Affection because I was very concerned about not having enough yarn. However, I did pick it up again at the airport on my way home, because, at least if I ran out of yarn, I'd be closer to getting it done and I'd be home in few hours.

LUCKILY, I managed to finish all 8 inches (~20.5cm) of lenght with about 12 inches of yarn left to spare!

I have to say, these black airport chairs at LAX are very uncomfortable. I had to keep getting up every 20-30 minutes to stretch out. Here's the entire sleeve, bound off, along with some of my carry-on luggage (filled with knitting, naturally!)

 

 Finished the second sleeve! And by the grace of the knitting gods, it matches the first sleeve.

 

Ravellenics 2014: Close to the Finish Line

 I'm getting close to finishing the second sleeve of my cardigan. You really can't tell from looking at the sleeve, but here's my wonderful knitting app -- Knit Companion.  (See all of the highlighted cable crosses and sticky notes? I love this app!)

I'm at the last cable repeat (5/6). I have 24 more rows in the last cable repeat (3 inches), then the bind-offs, and the final three repeats of the saddle (9 inches) over 8 stitches. I've been watching some of the Olympic coverage while knitting, so it's a win-win.

I've got a good solid 2 hours of dedicated knitting time on a plane for the upcoming US holiday (Presidents' Day Weekend), and I hope to have this last part finished. Then I can move onto my stretch goal of finishing my Color Affection.

Ravellenics 2014: Status!

I'm making decent progress with my Ravellenics project (WIP Dancing!) It helped that I was sick for two days during the week, so I got caught up with my knitting a little bit.

 

The sleeve is about 70% done. I have 1.5 more cable repeats and then to do 3 inches of saddle for the sleeve. (Each cable repeat is about 3 inches).

Ravellenic 2014 Projects

For this year's Ravellenic games, the podcast is joining Team Sasquatch (the podcaster conglomeration) and our primary set of projects is to finish some WIP / UFOs that have been languishing. Currently, I don't have enough bandwidth to start and finish a project, so I'm sticking to more realistic goals.

My primary goal is to finish my Alice Starmore St. Brigid sweater, which I've converted to a cardigan (the Ravelry project link).  I've already completed the back and the fronts.

I've even finished one sleeve.

My goal is to finish the second sleeve. (I'm not aiming to finish blocking & seaming by the end of the Olympics.

I do have a stretch goal, which is to finish my Color Affection. I'm halfway through the three-color section. I don't know if I'll get to it, but I'm hoping.

And, of course, the kittens were VERY interested in lying down on the sweater, despite having their own blankets to lay upon.