I'm a Ravthlete!

Let's face it, it's the only kind of athlete I'll ever be...

In August 2008 I was fairly new to the world of Ravelry and all it contained and in an effort to immerse myself I joined in the Ravelympics. A clever concept that involved knitting events during the duration of the Beijing Olympic Games. A great way to challenge yourself to knit more/faster/harder!

This year as the Winter Olympics rolled around I found myself co-captaining a contingent of brave souls preparing to knit ourselves stupid in the Winter Ravelympics! We called ourselves Team Doing A Bradbury in honour of Australia's first Winter Gold Medallist and even had some encouragement from the man himself! I set out with grand plans at the opening ceremony and ended the closing ceremony with a touch of RSI.

I competed in the Aerial Unwind (another great thing about the Ravelympics: to medal, all you have to do is finish!) which involved frogging a top I made for last winter and then proceded not to wear all winter so it was really just an interesting way to store my yarn. So this:


Became this:

My next event was the Sweaterboard Cross, in which I received a medal for my waistcoat, which I modified from a 1970s pattern. It also got me a medal for the Lace Luge.


Then the time came to tackle my WIPs in the WIP Dancing.

I finished off a shrug that had been languishing in the basket since our holiday to Tasmania in October.


A scarf that I started at the same time as the shrug,


And I finally finished knitting my tree. To be more precise I finished knitting the roots of my tree and sewing in a gazillion ends.


Check out my medal haul!
At the end of it all my co-captains Ali and Jane and I got to do a random draw for a whole swag of prizes donated by our super team mates! It was really interesting to see what people can do in a limited amount of time with an imaginary deadline looming over their heads, the Bradburies produced some magnificent efforts!