It’s so much fun to Knit Along! I’m joining the enormous Olympic knitting team, organized by Coach Yarn Harlot. I will be knitting for Team Italy. Why? I will in Italy, physically, actually, in person, really, really, during the Olympics. No, not to watch the Olympics, but to attend a mosaic workshop in Ravenna. It seemed cosmically correct to knit for the Italians.

Habu red linen paper swatches

Here are my training swatches. I’m finally using that red linen paper from Habu. I have 77 grams in all. My garter swatch is 0.92 g, and the lace edging motif is 0.43 g. (Thank goodness for my scientific husband, who has a very accurate balance.) I had to do some calculations to see how big of a wrap I could knit.

I’m making a poncho-shawl combination: a mitered corner in the back, straight across the front; garter stitch with the lace trim. The fiber is crispy! This will definitely be a stretch for me to finish, but I’m figuring on many hours to knit in airports and on planes.

It’s fun to watch little kids with sidewalk-chalk. The little ones aren’t so interested in drawing pictures as they are in coloring things. But sometimes they really draw! After three-year-old Ella colored as much of our curlicue-iron porch support, she turned to the screen door. Here’s her screen door art. I think it is in the best abstract, preschool tradition.

Ella's artwork