Ravelympics Fail.

So for the third time in a row, I have not finished my Ravelympics project during the Olympics. This time out, I was knitting an Ishbel (the large size) out of some magnificent red Bugga (Longhorned Beetle, to be exact). I didn’t have any problems with the pattern–I found it very straightforward. My excuse? A rotten week at work, which made me too preoccupied to knit in the evenings, followed by four days out of town at an intensive leadership/technology training workshop.

I could have done some knitting last weekend, but I had to grade papers for the class that I teach, then I got sucked into playing a game on my computer.

I think I am just destined to never finish a Ravelympics project. I ask myself, “would I have finished if all had been going swimmingly at work? Would I have finished if I wasn’t out of town for four days?” Perhaps. Or perhaps I would have found something else to take the place of those two things, some other distraction that would prevent me from meeting my not-so-lofty goal.

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Knitting Olympics 2006 (the pre-Ravelry days): I attempted to make a Cheryl Oberle cardigan. I got about 3/4 of the way through it, messed up a three-needle bind-off, and threw it across the room (literally) in disgust. Tim forced me to take a time out from the project after that incident, so I did. I ended up finishing the cardigan in August of that year during a big UFO clean-out. It’s a lovely cardigan but it desperately needs a washing. It’s covered in cat hair.

Ravelympics 2008: I do not remember what I attempted, I only remember that I didn’t finish it.

Ravelympics 2010: One Incomplete Ishbel. It’s going to be gorgeous when it’s done.

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I did finish an awesome pair of Jaywalkers, though. (Picture to come.) And now I’m in the midst of the March UFO Madness challenge–I plan to try and finish a few pesky UFOs by March 15. I have some pretty strict plans for finishing the projects that I’ve started. My goal is to get most of them finished by the end of May, and I don’t plan to start more than a couple of gift projects between now and then. Like everything else, we’ll see how that goes.