Win a Hank of Olympics Medal Yarn

The Olympics, to me, is just a lot of sappy 'Believe' ads on CTV. I don't feel the emotional response at all; maybe it's because I'm not an authentic Canadian (or the fact that I have no interest at all in sports). Yarn, however, is a different story – that Olympic Medal yarn is gorgeous!

Can you hear me chortling with pure glee yet? Query me on most days, you'll find me generally quite jaded about high level sporting events. As we close on the Olympics though, my story changes. For me, the Olympics are full of untold stories of dedication and sacrifice. Innumerable tales of strife, perseverance and fulfillment just waiting to unfold. It's seventeen days of pure emotional crack brought to an even more poignant level now that our kids are older. The opportunity to share these stories with them is more exciting to me than words alone can express. That dedication, that passion, that focus are virtues I hope to give my children the boundless confidence to emulate in their own lives.

I have always loved watching the figure skating competitions, at least since Peggy Fleming competed since Fleming was my last name.

During the 1980 Winter Olympics, my mother was eight and a half months pregnant with her first child and laid up on the couch with a broken leg. She went so crazy cheering during the US vs USSR hockey game that my father thought she was either going to get up and jump around in spite of the broken leg or go into labor right then. This is the story I've heard from my parents during every Winter Olympics since I can remember. I've never had much of a passion for sport, but the Winter Olympics hold a special place in my heart because of my parents' fond memories of the “Miracle on Ice” hockey game and my birth nine days later.

I've been looking forward to these Olympic games for months — I actually do that every time. I just love the Olympics!

I had a good friend's brother cut at the last minute from the olypmic bobseld two man team. he trained for two years at Lake Palicid. I wonder how many we never hear of who don't make it. I love to watch those who try with heart. The yarn would turn into something special for Cory to bring him luck for 2014.

I am always surprised by the real life human stories behind the superathletes at the Olympics and often wonder how the media discovers them. I am far from athletic but delighted to discover this gorgeous Olympic inspired yarn and hope to be its owner! Thanks for inviting us to participate in the fun!

I love the Olympics because the game magnify the human spirit.

I am loving all the different styles of hats I've seen at the Olympics and I am thinking that I saw crochet on the Swedes!

Living abroad has made watching the Olympics difficult in recent years. I lived in Japan and watched Salt Lake City in Japanese. Beijing was also surprisingly difficult. Although S. Korea, my home at the time, was far closer geographically, the language barrier was still a challenge. Now, I sit here in England, many time zones away. This time the language is English, but something's still lacking. Perhaps it's that during the Olympic games, I feel more American than I do at other times. Either way, I sit and knit. Some things never change.

Last night's opening ceremonies were the best I remember watching for any Olympic games. I learned some things about Canada, but I also realized that there are very many things I don't know about Canada's history, geography, and politics.

I can't wait for the figure skating to begin. My favorite is Yvgeny Plushenko (I know I probably butchered the spelling there).

I'm looking forward to watching the Games this year because while I am American, my husband is Canadian (AND his brother and brother's girlfriend are coming down to visit for a week). I'm expecting a lot of good-natured ribbing going on around here. ;-)

This is the first Olympic Games – Winter or Summer – where we can say “hey, we've been there!!”. We had some fantastic times there during our visits to both Vancouver and Whistler a couple of years ago. For us on the other side of the world (and in the middle of summer!), it brings back some wonderful memories of the area, and makes the whole event feel just that little more personal.

I was pretty so-so about the Olympics to begin with, but especially after the luge accident death I became very sad about it and really can't bear to watch any of it now. A lot of people keep trying to convince me to be excited about the Olympics being in my city, saying how this is a once in a lifetime thing, but I just can't seem to be happy about it.

I am glad, however, that someone was able to make a yarn so beautiful for the Olympics.

This is such lovely yarn. It goes perfectly with the spirit of the olympics, which I love. I still vividly remember watching Eric Heiden win all of his medals at the 1980 Olympics. It was such a special treat to stay up late to watch the medal ceremonies. The olympics are such a great show of pride and accomplishment.

That yarn is definitely medal worthy. Beautiful stuff! For my sentence, my uncle attended two Olympics (Munich and Montreal) as a member of the USA judo team so we have a lot of Olympics enthusiasm in my family.

There's something about the Winter Olympics that overcomes my usual cynicism about big televised events and high level sports. The whole world playing in the snow together. That can't be bad. Wish I was there. I'm sure a skein of Olympic yarn would console me a little.

what a different colorway.. interesting! i don't watch any of the olympics; i'm actually planning on turning the televsion off for 2 weeks because i think it's pretty boring.

The Olympics seem to turn off my “snark” button. My absolute favorite winter Olympics sport is curling. Yes, curling. I love it more than snowboarding and figure-skating. And all the Olympics commercials make me sob. All of them. Even the ones for companies that I boycott on moral grounds. (thank you. that felt good.)

~ hb33, in a confessional mood ~

I wish that all the other tv channels would run their regular shows instead of reruns during the olympics. I don't watch it because I really don't care about the olympics but, come on tv executives, don't assume that everyone is watching NBC. It may be an amazing thing for other countries but I think the US has become kind of meh about the whole thing.

The olympics rocks; I love watching passionate people!

does grammatical mean i need to bust out the capitalization? phew. I am so very pleased the Olympics are happening in Vancouver, but displeased that I won't get to see them because I do not subscribe to cable television. what to knit with a winter olympic theme? hmmm…

We have 36″ of snow on the ground in south central Pennsylvania, all 3 of my kids are home or on break this week, & we've been glued to the TV! We rarely watch tv in general,but it is so much fun to sit together–all 5 of us cheering & carrying on. I'm well into a Ravelympics project–a top down raglan cardigan. Life is good! Winning yarn is great!

I love the Olympics even more this time around because they're in Canada. And now we have two gold medals won on home soil. Wahoo! I hope that the men's and women's curlers and men's and women's hockey players can win us some more gold!