Knitting Olympics Commentary
I figured I'd jump on the commentary bandwagon."Well, it's been an interesting 16 days here for Team Christina."
"It sure has, Bob. She sure put together some great effort, it was just some 11th hour woes that got her. You've gotta give Christina some credit, she took on a project that she knew was doable but would still be challenging."
"Misjudging your yarn allowance can be a fatal mistake, Jim. She thought she had enough for a final repeat, but she didn't and had to rip out several rows and then started on the end chart."
"You know, I must say, leaving her knitting at a friend's stitch 'n' bitch on Friday was a fatal error. It just goes to show that mixing wine and knitting never turns out well."
"No, it doesn't, Bob. Because of that last minute mistake, she couldn't work on her knitting for all of Saturday. That was some key time that could have meant the difference between victory and defeat."
"She also pulled a Bode Miller... staying out drinking until 3:30 on Saturday did not leave her ready for a good start on Sunday. Not to mention that she'd put off all of her major chores until Sunday as well."
"Let me tell you, a grocery store on a Sunday afternoon is NOT a good place to be. Dodging small children probably took away precious minutes that could have made all the difference."
"Don't forget, Jim, Christina had decided to make Apple & Onion Chicken Curry for dinner that night, a dish that takes at least an hour of prep PLUS an hour of baking. Tasty, but definitely time consuming."
"Bob, let me tell you, I've sampled that dish, and it is well worth it. But I don't think anything takes away from the sting of being one row away from binding off and realizing that you still don't have enough yarn, forcing you to rip out the 10 row final lace repeat and one 14 row lace repeat."
"It sure does take a while to get those stitches still on the needle. Let's not forget that Christina chose to go well past the 7 repeats that the initial pattern called for to make a fuller, longer shawl."
"Well, I wouldn't call the Flower Basket Shawl a shawl, more of a shawlette. So, her decision to lengthen it definitely made sense."
"So, with plenty of yarn at the ready and hours to go, Christina set in for those final 11 rows and bind off."
"Now, that doesn't sound like much, but let's not forget that this is a shawl, so each row is in the realm of 400 stitches. That's 20 minutes a row, Bob."
"It takes a while, that's for sure. And you've gotta feel the sting of finishing the bind off while Ricky Martin was singing mere minutes after the flame was extinguished. She had the shawl blocked and ready to go by 11:30 that night."
"She was so close, but unfortunately, close does not get you Olympic gold. And that's gotta sting, Bob."
"I bet it does, Jim. I bet it does."
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