Ravelympics Kick-Off Weekend

So the Ravelympics kicked off Friday morning at 8 PM Beijing time, which was 8 AM my time. The Ravelympics is a knitting Olympics set-up to coincide with the summer Olympics. We cast-on and will cast-off by the end of the Olympics and have chosen different events. I chose the Hat Dash and 2 entries for WIP Wrestling. So, on Friday morning I snuck into a conference room at work for 2 minutes so I could symbolically cast-on and take a photo. The only project I had to cast on for was the Lots of Eyelets Hat in preemie size, so I cast on for it.

Later that day I had my hair done.

And on Saturday, though I have other projects to work on, like my nephew's Superman Sweater (the back is below)...

...we went to Little Man's swim class and later that afternoon I headed to the Charlotte Purls meeting where I started learning about socks.

Heather, our teacher for the day.

At the meeting I picked up three coordinating skeins of yarn that a fellow Purl was destashing, and I knit half of my class sock.


Later that evening while Hubby and Little Man watched pre-season football I worked a little on the hat.

Last night, after cleaning a lot, I finished up the hat. Tonight I will hopefully start the appliques for the other hat that I'm trying to finish for the WIP Wrestling Event, and then...


...after nearly 6 years of not being finished, I think the Ravelympics is the perfect time to finally put this project to rest...don't you?