Are you ready for a Ravelympics report? I knew you were! I must admit, I’m only watching small parts of the Olympics. The announcers annoy the frigging daylights out of me. And the commercials. Oy with with poodles already! Instead, I’ve watched the first two LOTR movies, and I finished the first disk of the 3rd one last night. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen them, so they are helping me not go to bed too early. I kind of love sleep. A lot.

Yes, I am totally inundating you with MQW pictures. It really is breath-taking though. The colors are rich and beautiful, and it’s kidsilk haze, it has a following for a reason. Ten squares down, twenty-six to go. By the way, I’m counting the large squares for the 36. Technically the instructions have 72 “blocks” but some of the them are the mini blocks, and it is better for me to keep track of large squares. But you have to admit, it is lovely. And wider than I expected. I’ve come up with a nifty system to keep track of the color changes, but you’ll have to wait for that. I have 14 more days of this Ravelympic nonsense, and I’m really gonna run out of things to say soon!

All of the boys’ very expensive schoolbooks and workbooks have to be covered in clear contact paper. Yeah. So the man is off to buy some and soon we will be wrapping every. single. book. (I think there are about 25 or so total). All of this needs to be done quickly (hence the sprint) to be dropped off at school by 3pm today. If I was more organized and remembered the whole contact paper thing, it would have been more of a relay or a marathon.

And the Mount Washmore Climb

10 pairs of navy shorts, 4 pairs of navy pants, 10 white polo shirts, 12 new undershirts, 12 new pairs of socks, and 12 new pairs of underwear. When you add of this to my normal laundry, well you get an epic climbing event that will involve running laundry late into the night and probably for the next 2 days just to get caught up.

In official Ravelympics news, I’m doing well on my Modern Quilt Wrap. Seen perched high on Mt. Washmore above, I now have 8.25 out of 36 large squares done. I must admit seeing the color combinations come together is *very* gratifying. And now that I’ve figured out how to have nearly no ends to weave in, this thing is rocking and rolling. How’s your Olympic knitting going?