Tag: Scoutsswag

Halfway 14/28

I've got more pimping to do, but I'll save it for during the week.  Instead, let me wish you a happy Valentine's Day.  We don't do much in terms of celebrating (ok, we don't do anything to celebrate except smooch, but we do that on other days, too), and I think having a quiet, slow-paced day together is better than flowers or chocolates or dinners out.

I'm making slow progress, but progress on my Ravelympics project, Elizabeth Zimmerman's Green Sweater.  I'm making mine in gray, though, because my LYS owner convinced me that every woman needs to knit herself a nice gray sweater at least once.  I'm planning to include a smidge of waist shaping as my figure is not flattered by boxy sweaters. 

I've spent the day writing up story critiques for a talented client, watching the Olympics, knitting, and mooning over shawl patterns.  I've decided that my skein of Olympic Medals is going to be a shawl.  400 yards of superwash merino in gold, silver, and bronze.  What would you make?

How about you go buy a skien and we can have a March Medals KAL?

Olympic Medals

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The thrill of victory.  That's what we're all after, isn't it?  We've signed on to the Ravelympics or the Knitting Olympics to strive for something just a little beyond what we thought we could achieve.  There's no easy here.

For 17 days you're going to craft your heart out, pushing past the pain, past that decrease you forgot, past the 13 rows you had to tink.  All for glory.  All for knowing that, yes, you can knit a complicated lace stole in 17 days.  For knowing that, yes, you can knit, steek, and finish an entire sweater in 17 days.  For knowing that, yes, you can finish those seven UFOs that have languished on your project page since 2007. For knowing that, yes, you can triumph.

You'll have your finished objects as a reward.  You'll have your blog badges from Bobicus Maximus and the Yarn Harlot.  But you deserve even more.

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Why not award yourself the kind of Olympic medal that means the most to a knitter:  a skein of limited-edition, hand-dyed sock yarn exclusively from Scout's Swag.  Gold. Silver. Bronze.  It's all there to mark your fortitude, to commemorate your achievement, to celebrate your craftleticism.

Only 80 skeins of Olympic Medals sock yarn will be created.  Each beautifully dyed skein will be 400 yards of superwash merino, enough for socks worthy of an Olympian, or even a shawl to wear as a mantle of your success.  Whether you want to reward yourself or a member of your team, Olympic Medals yarn will be shipped by February 22, just in time to mark your achievement.

Go ahead.  Anticipate the thrill of victory.  No matter what happens in the next 17 days, you've earned this medal.

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