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Ravelympics

I'm exhausted, so here's all I'm going to say tonight: We'll see if I can manage to get one more medal by the end of it. Pictures of the actual FO will be posted soonish.

Sara's Starghan

My friend Sara is having a baby girl. And this baby girl will not be covered in cotton candy pink all the time. Because I thought Sara of all people would appreciate it, I decided to make a brightly colored starghan for this little bundle of joy. I chose an aqua/turquoisey color and a terra cotta color and a warm goldy yellow. Since Sara is eco-conscious and prefers natural things, I chose a cotton blend yarn that will stand up to machine wash and dry. Its an easy pattern to memorize and fun to knit, although every other row you have to do a lot of counting and you need to keep track of what row you are on. I put stitch markers at the end of each pattern repeat, which is basically each indentation on the star, to help me keep track of where I was. I don't think I could have done it without that, I would have lost my place way too many times. I really needed a bigger space than the little twin bead in my guest room for blocking, but since that is all I had available, thats wh