In the spirit of challenging myself, I've joined Team Bob and my project is Summer Blooms, a shawl by Susanna IC. Woo hoo! It's the first project I've ever made using beads and I'm dying to see how it turns out.
I was going to make it in pink and donate it to the cancer research auction, but I didn't have enough pink and I dare not buy another skein of it, so I'm going with blue. The yarn is Athena, a lace weight yarn of 100% merino.
The Olympic games start on Friday and in preparation of tha, I bought some beads from Manifest Beads (Etsy). She's in Connecticut so the beads came real fast:
According to the pattern, I'm supposed to add the beads to the shawl as I go instead of stringing them, and I know there's a good reason why, but all I could think about is not being able to get the beads on
at all or being slowed down trying to string 275 beads with dental floss. As if I want to deal with 275 beads worth of delays.
The rule is that I can start knitting when the torch is lit on Friday, July 27th and I stop when the torch goes out 17 days later. Can I do it? Hopefully I can.
Are there really 275 beads on the yarn? I have no idea because a) I'm really, really, really bad at math and b) I lost count while stringing the beads so I'm hedging my bets by leaving the needle on the yarn until I have a chance to count the beads.
After this challenge I can go right back to knitting my mother's sweater, Cora, which has been hibernating for the past two months. I should have made that my Ravellenic challenge. Oh well.
I wish good luck to all of my teammates!
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