Equipment Failure and Injury...

...or so the official results will read.

The main portion was done in only a day and a half. At that point I knew that the amount of yarn I had was not going to cut it. So I went to get some more. Neither the color I had nor the color I wanted was available at any of the 3? 4? stores I went to, so I got a slightly different color and launched into the edging. But I decided to do it the hard way. And forgot that it takes two rows of edging to bind of each of the 224 stitches around the edge. Sigh... While slogging my way through that, Joseph got sick. It was just a fever but one night of ruined sleep can be disastrous to an athlete. Some tree decided to drop all it's pollen on me, too. Three days of vicious sneezing has left my throat raw and prone to breathless coughing bouts. To cap it off, Elena got sent home from school with a fever, on Friday. So, having made it a bare 1/8 of the way around, I've now realized that the original amount of yarn isn't going to cut it, even with the secondary augmentation. As I sit here listening to Canadian rockers belt it out en francais I'm going to have to call this year a bust. I hope London will be better planned, on my part.