Armchair Knitting Olympian

The games have started and I am off! I went over to Linda's house who is hosting the recovering Rachael and we had ourselves a little potluck olympic knit off. I brought my famous mac and cheese reciepe, or actually Martha's Mac and Cheese, it's so good that it's a good thing, yummy. My project for the knitting olympics is the ever famous Clapotis. This is my second attempt at it, the first died a miserable death due to wrong yarn choice. I am so much happier with the Andean Silk form KnitPicks, it feels lovely, has a nice sheen and drapes beautifully. I am already to the point I was on the other one before I frogged the damned thing. I decided to do a different approach, I'm knitting it on regular ole fashion straight needles, not double points as I had on the first. I'm looking for speed and I'm getting it on the bamboos, maybe if I were knitting on Addi's I would be just as fast, but I didn't feel like buyig them and I missed my bamboo's sooo much. The circs kept slowing me down because I was constantly have to squish the knitting up to the point, I'm just not crazy about knitting on the Denises on a size smaller than a 7, the cord is not so fine as it could be. Speaking of needles, my hunt for the Swallow Caseins is over!! My nes favorite buddy Linda has a co-worker flying in from Australia for business and there just so happens to be a yarn store on her way home from work that has the needles we want. They are so pretty and shiny and clicky, I couldn't help myself from fondling Linda's at her house. The Jaywlaker socks are on hold for a bit, I'm just not going to make the KAL deadline, I'm not liking how they bunch around my foot after I've decrease the gusset stitches. I will eventually finish them as I already have new sock yarn reay to go and I WILL NOT start a new pair of socks until these are done, I WILL NOT. I'm thinking of joining the Windy City Knitting Guild, not that I would be able to make many of thier meetings as they meet on the same night as SnB, but they have an upcoming private tour of Lorna's Laces with the ability to purchase yarn there, maybe even off-dyed lots, YARN! I love their stuff, especially if I could get a deal, plus I already sorta know the owner and I should keep up the networking, because you never know, right?