Here's the yarn for my current project: Clapotis #2, Olympic Gold. It's three skeins of Malabrigo in the Sunset color. I love this 100% merino stuff. Yes, I'll have to pick out every single unraveling stitch. It's worth it to me:

And since this is my blog for the Knitting Olympics only and will probably be deleted afterwards, I'm gonna post what I want and that means action figures. Merry and Pippin in this case:

Merry has a better camera than I do. Here's the purl side of the clapotis which is actually the right side:

Am trying to get the hang of Blogger. My usual blog is over at LiveJournal. But it's good to have one just for knitting, away from the other stuff. Now to figure out how to get those little knitty buttons over on the side...