Ravelympics: Third Day Adjustment
Goodbye Clandestine sock pattern. Hello Spring Fern pattern. So much better. I'm now playing catch up.
Watching the Olympics here brings home that I no longer live in Scandinavia. The Finland - Russia ice hockey game was just mentioned in passing, the cross-skiing events barely gets a look in (Denmark has always been crap but we'd always show some support for Norway) and we do not get wall-to-wall coverage of the figure-skating events. I remember growing up and getting to watch all the figure-skating qualifying rounds; now I get edited highlights of the top three athletes. But, I do get to see events like speed skating and the luge which I have rarely seen before. In fact I stayed up very, very late last night just to see who won the luge. Ooh, the excitement (and subsequent day of tiredness).
I'll leave you with a little link I have been saving for rainy day like today: Hipster Puppies. Unsurprisingly I'm finding this photo absolutely hilarious and I may have said something like this when I was twenty-one and unbearably pretentious.
February 15th, 2010 - 19:58
The socks look great this time! :)
February 16th, 2010 - 10:15
Your sock looks lovely.
I once spent the duration of the summer Olympics in Denmark and was surprised to find that the only sports covered seemed to be weightlifting and ping pong.
I can imagine British winter Olympics coverage is similarly quirky. Whenever I catch it, it seems to be one of the sports where we’re hoping to come in the top 15.
February 16th, 2010 - 11:09
Your decision to rip has made me think again about my current socks. One of them is so incredibly fussy that it embarrasses me – who am I trying to impress?! And the other one is for my husband, who just wants warm feet, so why am I fiddling about with a yarnissima pattern and taking forever to get anywhere? Much better to go for something simple and striking and wearable!