The 2010 Winter Olympic Games , starting less than 38 days in Vancouver Canada, has quite a few folks excited and ready to watch the winter events. To get into the Olympic spirit, Ravelry is hosting the 2010 Ravelympics . With over 150 teams and 3,000 members already signed up, interested fiber enthusiasts will find teams made up of Harry Potter lovers, countries, cities, podcast listeners, spinners, and is open to those who knit, crochet, spin, who are beginners to advanced and who are ready for a fun loving competition.
During this seventeen day event in February, Ravelry members will challenge themselves to complete projects they've never done before. While some may complete an entire sweater, others may choose to tackle smaller projects or even WIPs. This competition starts the very moment the Olympic games kick off in Vancover, which will be approximately 8:00pm PST or your timezone. For projects to count, tags are crucial. Make sure to tag all your projects with special tag ravelympics2010, then choose your event and team tags. Remember, every project needs it to be counted, so make sure to tag correctly as the tag (ravelympics2010) gets you into the stadium and officially adds you as a participant.
Even though the Ravelympics Committee is still hammering out the complete listing of events, here's a sneek peek at what can be expected:
Designer Original Dance - create a design from scratch within 17days
Pattern Skeleton - creating a publishable pattern
Design Mass Start Biathlon - from swatch to published pattern in 17 days
PROJECT CATEGORIES:
- Sock Hockey
- Scarf Super-G
- Nordic Sweater Combined
- Mitten Moguls
- Hat Halfpipe
- Skele-gurumi: amigurumi and toys
- Short Track Shawl
- (Bags, Totes)
- Stash Jump: using long neglected stash
- WIPs-Dancing: must be projects cast on at least a month before the games
- WIPs-Finishing: focus on all that finishing stuff: seams, weaving, buttons, etc…
- Charity Curling: projects for charity
- (Sweaters Slalom): all types of sweaters
- (Below-the-Waist/Above the knees): pants and such
- (Afghan/Blankets)
- (House & Home)
- (Kids)
- (Pets) Bob-Sled
- (Beaded)
- Snowboarding
- Single-Skein Speed Skate
TECHNIQUE CATEGORIES
- Lace Luge: anything with lace
- Colorwork Curling: anything colorwork, intarsia
- Cable Cross-Country: all about cables
- Cross: learn a whole new craft you’ve not yet tried
- Biatholon: blending knit/crochet/felting etc.. in your project
- (Double Knit)
- (Photo Stash into Ravelry)
- (Domino/Miters)
- (Entrelac)
- Patterns Pentathalon: everyone does same pattern stitch
- Thrummed Triple-Lutz: tackle something thrummed
- (Felting)
- (Hand-Dyed to FO)
- (Weaving)
- Synchronized Striping
SPINNING CATEGORIES
- Flying Camel Spin
- Speed Spinning
- Fleece to FO Long-Track
Not only does Ravelympics provide an intense personal challenge to all those who participate, but an extreme team challenge as well. Ravelympics is open for all Ravelry members to participate, just pick a team, sign up, enjoy watching the Winter Olympic events and let the games begin!
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