Olympic project declaration! Good news after all!

Okay, this is way cool. At TNNA, I got to meet Suss Cousins and the very cool Jill who works with her. I have loved Suss' line for a while, from afar [to be honest, since it's not available up here yet] because Suss embraces cotton as a year-round fiber, and she has it in SO MANY FLAVORS. This is a good thing for no-sheep people.

I got to see some of their new yarns at the show, my favorite of which was Suss Twisted, two strands of thick/thin cotton twisted together -- each is a different but complementary color. You get a really nice tweedy effect when you knit it up.

Thanks to the kind people at Suss, my Olympic project will be knitting their fitted boatneck sweater, altering the neck to a V so it flatters the big girls I carry with me everywhere. Altering AND knitting the thing in 16 days terrifies me, so I think it qualifies. :-) Yarn should be enroute later today and if all goes well, I'll be casting on with the rest of you tomorrow afternoon!

Pictures of yarn and pattern to follow. [The yarn and pattern aren't on their website yet.] Stay tuned!
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ETA: Unbelievable. Though I had just written this off as a no-go, because the pattern isn't ready at Suss and they don't have much yarn in stock just yet, Ms Jillian, goddess of my world [and yours too, if you're smart] has enabled me into a Suss project after all. With a little clever math, she deduced that Suss DOES have enough yarn for me to knit a sweater. And she wrote me a pattern to go with.

SO my olympic challenge is back on, and is amended as follows...
- i will knit this v-necked slightly belled-sleeve sweater in 16 days
- i will add a few sweet design details in as i go, and keep careful records
- i will offer it in the Knitty spring issue*

*This requires me to suspend the "no previous showing of knit items on your blog" rule that Knitty strictly adheres to. In the olympic spirit, I think we can make this one exception. I won't be sharing any pattern details here, but I'll be showing progress pics, because there is NO fun in this olympic dealy if we can't see how everyone's doing.

Jumping up and down with the excitement! Whee!