Three Strikes
We usually go out to see a real movie in a real theater on New Year's Day. This year, we were afflicted with a sever case of stay-at-home-itis. Instead, we held a private screening of "Field of Dreams" for the kids (who had never seen it), which accounts for my baseball metaphor.
Strike one. I had the clever idea to knit 8 white stripes to represent the year, '08, on the Special Olympics Scarf.
The scarves are for the '09 Winter Olympiad.
Strike two. The specifications for the scarf recommend a width of 4.5 inches.
Mine is almost half again as wide.Neither of these might have induced me to frog. No one but me would have to know I screwed up the year. In some universe 7 inches might be close to "about 4 1/2." Even still I doubt the Special Olympics Committee would have rejected the scarf. Then I came up against Strike Three.
I like it better thinner.It's no use trying to berate me or threatening to beat me with a crowbar. It's already too late. This one is out.
7:54 PM. ETA. Kathleen of the Comments did some further checking. Coats and Clark (the sponsor of the SO World Winter Games Scarf Project) has posted a pattern for a SO scarf that measure 5 3/4" by 60," so my 7 inch scarf probably would have been fine. Ah, the dangers of insufficient research.
4 comments:
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Mine is 6". Hope that is close enough to 4.5" for the SO committee! 4.5 inches seems too narrow and would make such a small scarf.
On the other hand, I'm only 7" into it. Perhaps I should modify my pattern to be narrower and begin again. I might achieve 5" and still have a nice design.
What to do. What to do.
Very clever...your baseball metaphores.
I finished my scarf. Got anxious when I read about the measurements. I followed the Coats & Clark pattern so I figured what I knit should be OK. I have the width right....mines a tad long, but it's going in the mail tomorrow.
Did you see on the Special Olympics website that they have received over 14,000 scarves so far? I don't feel bad now that I only made 1.
14000 scarves already? How many did they want? Is this a project I can punt?
Diane....I'd say you can punt (but that's a football term...what would be an appropriate baseball term to stick w Julie's theme?) They wanted 5,000 and had received 14,000 whenever the website had been updated. What they're going to do w all the extras is beyond me, but hopefully they have a plan.
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