The Olympics are a time of friendly competition, forging new friendships, overcoming personal challenges, reaching personal bests.
In the deep, dark recesses of the internet, out where everyone can see, we find Ravelry.com which is a knit and crochet community, for anyone who is not familiar with it.  And thanks to Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, who started the Knitting Olympics in 2006, we now have the Ravelympics.  (Stephanie’s Knitting Olympics still takes place, as a separate Event, completely unrelated to Ravelry).
The Event began as a competition to challenge oneself, to select a challenging …

The celebration of the New Year is always a challenging time, filled with joy for the celebrating, sadness as we say goodbye to all the good things we’ve accomplished in the past year and relegating them to mere memory, and apprehension as we enter a new year filled with possibilities.
Maybe you look at the new year as a way to start over.  Maybe you look at the new year as a way to say, I resolve to not make a resolution I can’t keep.  That’s what I’ve been saying.  But, …

…is to be able to finish all the projects I have on my list.  I know.  We walk into malls, stores, boutiques, and the Christmas decorations are starting to go up.  In some places, they’ve been up for weeks.  I haven’t even seen the Hallowe’en stuff, and yet, marketing experts have us start to worry about Christmas way early.  It’s nuts.  Don’t shoot me.  I just need to be as organized as possible.
Today I began compiling my gift list; searching for patterns, determining which yarns to use, and how much …