Day Two Ravelympics

For all my friends on Ravelry, this will make sense.

Day Two and I am not off to a good start...being a new knitter I thought I found the perfect, and easy pattern for a warm beanie cap for three Christmas gifts for guys on my list...one son, one daughter's fiance, and one daughter's boyfriend. Cast on some wonderful Mission Falls 1824 wool and set about my event. Not until I was 90% finished with my cap did I find out that it would be to small for the guys!!!!! It would be a great hat for smaller size heads, it is beautiful, and warm and soft, but still TO SMALL!!!!

Quandary to sleep on, do I finish the hat and gift it to a daughter on my list? I still must find a new, larger, pattern for the hats that I need for Christmas, but at least I would have 0ne leg of the race done for the Ravelympics.....or do I reclaim the yarn and start that hat over so that I finish with 3 hats for guys as originally signed up for??? Oh the ethics of it all.....

I would feel like I am cheating, and I am not a cheater!!!! Go Team Buffalo...I am off to frog the hat and reclaim the yarn. Motrin in on my list of allowable enhancements, I will be stopping at the medical station on my way to the stadium for frogging!

How to knit faster?

Ok, so I have spent the past 2 days researching knitting techniques. Not knitting, researching. I have no idea what brought this on. I just realized that I knit in a strange way. I hold my yarn in the continental style but I also throw my yarn in the english style.....can you just picture that? Strange, and time consuming.....I want to learn to knit faster, I want my projects to just fall from my needles......I have too many things cast on and I want to finish some of these things cause I want to start more things!!!!

I have been reading books by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (The Yarn Harlot)...she is such a great role model! And I happened to see a video of her on You Tube, the woman can knit like the wind (to coin a phrase from Cast-On the podcast)....I want that!!!!!!

If I am to get what I want I suppose I should stop researching and start knitting, huh?
Off to practice.....it's not going to easy or fun at first....I just hope it pays off in the end.