They may be mental giants but, physically, by our standards they must be very primitive.

( Knitting Olympics Update )

The silver lining here is that without the outside deadline, I don't have to rush with the sleeves quite so much, and I can add more of a margin-for-felting-error to them than finishing by Sunday would have really allowed. Kimono sleeves, after all, are easier to live with than pipestems, if one's calculations -- or washer -- turn out to be screwy...