Live From One of the TeamMich Virtual Olympic Villages

Decisions, decisions. Hand spun or commercial? You decide.

Although it comes as no surprise to some of you that I've lost most of my mind (since that depressing topic is about all I've written about lately), I should probably let you know I've gone ahead and lost what little was left. What the heck...it was a short jump off the cliff.

This post is here to remind you that there are people out here who consider knitting a sport.

Crazy people. I'm one of them.

Wips-Dancing Socks 3/4 of the way done.

On Friday, I'm diving head first into a type of submersive therapy that will require all of my attention, talent, fortitude, time and skill.

Another Wips-Dancing entry--Pretty as a Peacock by Some Knitting Required.

I'm talking about the Ravelympics, of course. A seventeen day knit-fest, complete with a kick off event with other crazy knitters on Friday (pray my pager is quiet) and a long, long run of events where I will challenge the knitter within. I will knit while I watch every possible moment of the snow challenged Olympics in Vancouver.

I've tagged the events on my Ravelry project page and plan to compete in Mitten Moguls (I was really torn about entering the Nordic Colorwork Combined event instead since it is Fair Isle--but since most of those Raveletes will be juggling a bunch of colors, and I'm only juggling two, I thought better of that). Then there is the Wips-Dancing event where I'll compete twice and polish off a languishing pair of socks of my own design (they belong to a certain blogger when I'm done) and the long neglected Pretty as a Peacock Shawl. For the days I'm bored (heh), I'm also competing in the Hat Halfpipe event where I'll be using handspun yarn to knit the Robin's Egg Hat. I made one for Sara last month in Manos, and it's adorable. It about killed me to give it to her. For my last event, I'm competing in the Lace Luge with Romi's Brandywine Shawl. I'll be using the Chinatown Apple Smooshy by Dream in Color.

Hey, if you're going to dream, why not dream big?

I think that about covers the events I'll be competing in. My patterns are printed, I have needles, yarn, stitch markers, plenty of coffee beans and lots of hope.

I still can't make a decision about those mittens. What would you use? Do you want to see them knit all in hand spun? Or should I go ahead and suffer knitting them in Prism's Merino Mia? Won't you help me decide? Go vote in the left hand corner of my blog. I'll use whatever you tell me to use. Hurry...there's only 2 days left to figure that out!