Knitting for Canada
What does this plum-colour worsted have to do with 2 weeks of square-eyed winter sports-tainment?!
I have joined the fun over on Ravelry with the Ravelolympics and I’m knitting for ‘Team Canada’ while watching ridiculous amounts of olympics television. Tea-man and I watch very little TV. As in, when we moved to our new place, we bought an indoor aerial and get 4 channels. But during the Turin Olympics in ’06, Tea-man remarked that for 2 weeks it was like we had a large winter games screensaver in the corner of living room.
Ever since I attended the Downtown Knitting Collective meeting and fell in love with the capelet the presenter, Kathryn Brenne, designed and wore, I decided to knit one for myself. I spent a good hour in Americo on the weekend trying to pick the right yarn, and eventually went with 4 skeins of Andean Simple Twist in a plum colour. I wanted this project to be as ’Canadian’ as possible, so Canadian designer …. check! Canadian store …. check! Canadian yarn …. boo! no! Ok, 2/3 isn’t too bad. The pattern called for Colinette One Zero, which is Welsh, and which I found hard to find from an online Canadian retailer, and Romni was closed, so voila – Americo it is. (Truth: I love that store, I have longed for an opportunity to buy something in that store, and so I have justified it to myself as above 
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The yarn, Andean Simple Twist in plum, is lovely. I added it to my ravelry projects page and the plum certainly stands out against my usual and comforting favourites: pastels of blues, greens and yellows.
Bring on the games and bring on the knitting!
