Last night Christine and I watched the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics together.  She cast on for her Knitting Olympics Project and I started spinning the yarn for mine. My Olympic goal is to finish a pair of Sky Architecture socks from Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways book starting from roving.  Part of doing this is a promise to myself that I will spin or knit instead of playing silly games on my iPhone.

Just like in the real Olympics I had a few technical glitches to overcome in the form of equipment failure (the orifice bearing of my favourite wheel snapped off the maiden) and program changes (the fibre I chose did not work out as planned).  The wheel problem was solved temporarily by borrowing the orifice bearing from Chrisine’s traddy.  Hopefully, her DH can glue mine back together today and it will hold together until I can get a replacement part.  Once I got the wheel going I found the fibre I had taken to Christine’s to do my socks with didn’t please me at all.  Digging in my bag I realized I had some other fibre that I had been spindling with that would do for socks.  Quick program change and I was on my way.  I got 1/2 the singles done by the time Gretzy got the outside torch lit (at nearly midnight EST!).

My plan today is to spin the rest of the singles and hopefully get it plied so that knitting can start tomorrow.  Other plans include finishing my InDepth Study revisions (due in the mail on Monday) and digging the house out of the mess it has gotten buried under in the last few weeks as life got away from me.  I’m trying a strategy that sometimes helps me keep on task – setting a timer and focusing on one task for 20min, when the timer goes off I go to the next task and spend 20min on that, lather, rinse, repeat… By rotating through the tasks I hope I’ll get all of them done by the end of the day.