Olympic Dreams

Too busy too post. I had the crazy idea to play along with the Ravelympics, which I had already mentioned to you. But last minute, I had the even crazier idea to participate in the Sweaterboard Cross event. Which means that you start and finish a sweater before the torch goes out. And this is where I went temporarily insane, I decided to do this sweater. And this was on Friday morning that I came to this brilliant decision - you know, the day the Olympics started. Yikes.

And I still hadn't finished my Ingenue yet, so that was an issue. I couldn't start a new sweater when I hadn't finished the last one. So I took it with me to work ( I only had the second sleeve left to do) and cranked out the sleeve while stuck at a hockey tournament and watching the Opening Ceremony (oh the beauty of the loge!). So by Saturday morning, I had this:
Yeah, one sweater done, but for the underarm ends sewn in (those take a bit of fiddling to make the holes go away, and at 2 am on Friday/Saturday I was in no mood for fiddly), and blocking it's done. I can hem the collar once it's blocked. These things are on the list of things I need to get to today. Ha. But, yay for a mostly finished sweater! Hoping to wear it on Thursday - as that's the first day I don't have a game at work. Doing the sweater dance - sorry, I'm hopped up on cold meds.

So back to my Vivian (that's the name of the pattern for the Olympic sweater, in case you didn't click on the linky). I got it going on Saturday afternoon before work. And have been completely faithful to it since. No other knitting has been touched - as I totally won't be able to finish it if I get distracted. And as of right now, this is how far I am:
Wowsers. I impress myself sometimes. That is most of the body done (3 rows shy of where I was supposed to stop to work on the sleeves because that's where the first ball of yarn ended) and 126 rows of the 147 I have to do on the left sleeve. The way the sweater gets put together, is you knit the body to a certain point, then the sleeves to a certain point, then you join them all together and work up the shoulders. So that puts me somewhere around halfway done. Yay!
Considering that I've still been crazy busy at work, and I came down with a Cold of Doom this week, I'm pretty pleased. I need to get that sleeve done and get going on the second one, before today is done. I've got care of the Daley girls tomorrow and Wednesday mornings, basketball on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, hockey on Friday and Saturday and who knows what other little surprises life will throw me this week. Can I do it? Can I finish in a week? Stay tuned.