Higher. Faster. Knitter.

As you can see with the buttons on the right hand side bar, I am now officially a participant in the Knitting Olympics that is started up by the hilarious Yarn Harlot.

I decided to join because, well, I’d like to challenge myself and see if I can actually finish knitting something in 16 days. Plus it sounds like fun to be part of something together with thousands of other knitters 🙂

So what am I knitting? I’m making a striped dress for Annette (my almost two year old), based on the Picovoli pattern by Grumperina. Well, at least that’s the idea. The plan is for a dress. But the reality will depend on whether my yarns will be sufficient. But the beauty of this pattern is because it’s top down, I can just stop whenever my yarn is close to running out. If it’s too short to be a dress, it will be a tank top! Me, I’m an optimist.

I’m using Heirloom 8-ply cotton, one of the yarns that I bought last year in one of Tapestry Craft’s sale. Here they are:

I’m not using the prescribed yarn, which means the gauge will be different. Some maths to do. With my luck with gauges, I expect there would be some frogging and reknitting. Also I expect I would need to modify the pattern a bit as I go, to make it fit my daughter, and to make it more dress-shaped.

PS. Just in case you’re wondering, the second and third buttons that are showing on the right there are taken from here.