Anyone interested in a football season KAL?

Yes thats right a KAL! :)

My friends from Ravelry are doing this and I thought it was a great idea. I'm doing my first lace knit stole with dkKnits gleem. WOOT!! let's get going.

here is what she posted. :) Thanks Feministy!

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Football season is rapidly approaching, and I’m faced with a bit of a dilemma: what do I do while Boyfriend is watching football? We live together, so it presents a bit of a problem. I don’t mind watching a game everyone once in awhile, but quite frankly, I find nothing about football to be so enthralling that I have to see every play, every game. I never get too excited about the superbowl - why would I? If there’s one thing in life I hate more than anything it’s when people who don’t watch a sport get extremely excited about the championship event and start throwing parties that they expect everyone to come to. The same thing happened with me and the Olympics. I hate the bandwagon fanatics.

But back to my dilemma. What do I do while the football games are on, and his friends are over? Do I put in the noise canceling earphones and attempt to study? Do I head out and do some laundry? Do I hike to the library and try to study there? Do I give up on peace and quiet entirely and just deal with it and watch the endless amounts of football games?

And then it hit me: I can knit something big. I can block off that time every Sunday/Monday/whatever to knitting something big that I can’t carry around with me on public transportation. I have enough yarn to make 2 worsted weight sweaters, and one bulky weight cardigan. I’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of Wendy Bernard’s book, and it’s finally out and on its merry way to my house. I have so many items in that book tagged as favorites, I’m not quite sure where to begin.

So I thought “hey, why not see if anyone is interested in doing a football season KAL?”

So, are you interested in doing a football season KAL?

The KAL would start on Thursday, September 4, with the start of the new NFL season, and would end on Sunday, December 28. We could potentially extend the KAL (or start another) for the play offs and through the superbowl in February.

The rules would be as follows:

Cast on your project after 9/4/2008 and end by 12/28/2008.
Your project must be something large - which totally depends on your definition of “large.” This could include almost anything: lace wraps, blankets, sweaters, cardigans, baby wardrobes, a sock collection, etc.
Blog and post pictures about it in the KAL blog, interact with your fellow knitters on the blog. You can also post pictures to the Flickr pool.
Join the Ravelry group (to be created if I get enough interest) and participate in the forums, etc.
If you are interested, leave a comment with your Ravelry username and email address!

And yes, this is open to crocheters, too.

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If your on Ravelry look me up as ShadyFibers and send me a message and I can tell Fem (she is the host)

The Blog is HERE!!