I finished my first tawashi yesterday. It didn’t take very long once I got going, but I kept getting distracted by looking at other people’s Ravelympics projects, and trying to figure out how to get NBC.com streaming to work on my computer. I’ve had to settle for watching the highlights and what not. I missed the short track speed skating and mogul wins, alas. But I did have a lovely dinner out with friends and finished the first tawashi en route.

This one is called “Puzzle” and it’s in Tawashis in Crochet by Cindy Adams, one of my fellow Ravelers in the Tawashi Town group. It’s a very simple design: make four strips in contrasting colors and loop them together to form a wee square.I used Lily Sugar ‘n’ Cream yarn in Hot Pink and Pine Green, which I think is quite fetching. Really, I’m just using up my cotton stash. It came out pretty good for my first one. I still don’t think I understand the instructions for the last row of the strip, so I just improvised. It looks fine, but I have trouble turning written instructions into actions sometimes.

Here’s one of the strips waiting for its buddies:

This one makes a nice splint cozy:

Two strips linked together:

And the finished tawashi, top view:

And side view:

I only have a couple of colors at the moment, and we wouldn’t want to get bored with the same tawashi, would we? No? I didn’t think so. To the yarn store!