Knitting Along

I probably would not have tried either and gone on knitting away in solitude, except that I made a resolution to try a knit along at some point this year and after reading about possible Ravelympic events, I found two really great skeins of hand painted sock yarn on vacation that would make the Sock Put a worthy challenge.   So, I joined.  Since then, the whole Ravelympics infringing on the Olympic trademark controversy  has sealed the deal- I’m doing it, though I may not watch the games much.    The commercial buildup of the Olympics has always been a turnoff for me and reading about the behind the scene excesses, pressures, and scandals never helped.  But, good grief, Ravelympics was the only reason I planned to tune into the games this year.  I was actually going to watch.  Why must people take everything too far?

Soapbox aside, I’m thinking of trying socks with the magic loop method, two at a time, and toe up.  No doping here.

That would have been enough to give me a taste of group knitting, but the thing is I’ve been seeing a couple of very active online knitting groups that make me want more togetherness.  Look, I can do quiet isolation, really, but it’s nice to have options.  The only time I seem to be working on a common goal with other people these days is at church.  This is a worthy, huge goal, but along with the importance of the message, there is the good feeling of accomplishing something in the presence of friends.  So, when I saw that one of luvinthemommyhood’s suggested sweaters for the Summer Sweater Knit Along was the Campus Jacket that I had just queued and bought the yarn for, well, it sounded like fate to me.