amimono note

The Knitting Olympics

I suddenly decided to do the Knitting Olympics thing, in the morning on Thursday the 9th. My local newspaper,The Oregonian, had an article about the Knitting Olympics. Actually the article was in Wednesday's paper, but I didn't know until I read Super Eggplant on Thursday. Anyway, as I read the article, I realized that I don't have to sign up for Yarn Harlot's Olympics to do it. I can do it by myself!

So I chose "Baby Karis" for my Knitting Olympics project (I'll explain about the project later), and I wrote about it in my Japanese knitting blog. Several people responded to it, and now I think we have about 10 people in our "unofficial team Japan" for the Knitting Olympics. One knitter started to get up an hour earlier than usual to have uninterrupted knitting time! It will be fun.

This is the "Baby Karis" in progress, as of Wednesday morning.

"Baby Karis" is a baby size Karis poncho. The original Karis poncho is in Rowan magazine #36, and it was quite popular among Japanese knitters. I wanted to knit one too, but I didn't because I wouldn't wear a lacy poncho...

Then I saw this Baby Karis last fall. Somebody had knitted the Karis poncho in a fingering weight yarn with smaller size needles. It was a baby size Karis poncho! It wasn't lacy like the original adult size Karis, but it was still really cute. I knew I was going to knit that version of the Karis, for my friend's baby... and here I am.