I turned to Stan and I said, "maybe I just don't have the focus one needs to be an Olympian." He didn't say anything, because he's an amazing boyfriend, and gave the best consolation hug after I realized I had totally failed at medalling.
Here's the progress as Jacques Rogge announced the games were officially ended:
So what the hell happened? It seemed like I could totally do this, why didn't I?
The ribbing directions at the bottom.
I knew they were different, I thought I'd figured them out and written them down. I might have, but I probably did so in a notebook that is long gone. I had noted where to decrease on the back of the photocopy of the pattern. I remembered having issues with the ribbing at the bottom, but I was convinced that those directions I'd written were the revised directions because why else would I keep the pattern. They weren't. I followed them blindly, even when Beth told me it could be the ribbing patterning, I was convinced my problem was my gauge. It wasn't. I lost a day to swatching on several different sized needles, and made Stan drive me to brooklyn to get said needles (No really, he's a sport and a catch. And no, you can't have him, he's mine!).
My inability to concentrate on charts.
I had to rip back the first two rows twice because I couldn't get the right number of stitches between the 1 into 5 increases. I had to put stitch markers after every repeat so I didn't get confused, but I did anyway. I kept forgetting to mirror the cabling, so the chart took me way longer than it should have.
Plain poor planning.
Before the Ravelympics, Knitting Olympics or what have you, I made plans with Stan and our friends to visit MOMA for the Tim Burton Exhibit. I just neglected to look at the date and to register that it was the Saturday before Closing Ceremonies. :/ If I'd had that one more solid day of knitting, I think I totally would have finished.
Sigh. At least I have most of a nifty Tangled Yoke Cardigan done and I might even get it done sometime this week.
3 comments:
It's gorgeous. Given those obstacles you had, it really is awesome that you got to that point by closing ceremonies. Me, I was to chicken to even attempt a sweater or cardigan precisely because of my track record with deadlines. So I'd say it's better to attempt a REAL challenge and risk failure than to pick something you know is in the bag just to be able to guarantee winning. The latter isn't even really possible in the Olympics.
You probably got more done during the past two weeks than normally would have. In that sense, you won!
Oh, but it's sooooo pretty! I didn't even attempt mine!
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