The End
...of the year, that is. Not the blog, though it probably seems that way. And not knitting! I have been busy.
Since I last posted, I've gotten a car (yay!), painted my toenails, turned 22, eaten probably 2 heads of garlic (on Christmas night alone), blocked and sewed up four of nine squares of the mitered square blanket, and even started attaching pieces of the Gee's Bend Blanket (photos of said attachment are being saved for hopefully not too much later).
The diagram above is for exactly where I want each miter to end up. I had the miters laid out on my floor for a week, rearranging them until they were just what I wanted, but I had to a) pick them up off the floor and b) wash and block them, so I knew I would never remember without writing it down. It's been so helpful in putting these together!
As of this moment, the bottom two squares in the above photo are joined by a long strip of orange, and they look amazing. I've rediscovered my love of mattress stitching (vertically) with these projects. It's so incredibly neat and tames edges more than it would seem possible.
In the spirit of never finishing anything, I also started a clapotis in knitpicks sock yarn (I don't know if they make this anymore, the colorway is called "mesa"). I needed an airplane/train project over Thanksgiving, and none of my other projects would do (can you BELIEVE it?!)
I had a very nice Christmas in San Francisco with my dad and brother, and I hope you all had a nice holiday season as well. I went into shut-down mode because that's what I've done every year of my LIFE so far, having at least two weeks off school, but now that I had ONE DAY off for Christmas (plus two vacation days that I decided to burn) it wasn't very convenient. I got sick, and had to take off the rest of the week, and am now way far behind where I wanted to be on my vacation/sick hours accrued. Oh well.
Happy new year everyone!
Since I last posted, I've gotten a car (yay!), painted my toenails, turned 22, eaten probably 2 heads of garlic (on Christmas night alone), blocked and sewed up four of nine squares of the mitered square blanket, and even started attaching pieces of the Gee's Bend Blanket (photos of said attachment are being saved for hopefully not too much later).
The diagram above is for exactly where I want each miter to end up. I had the miters laid out on my floor for a week, rearranging them until they were just what I wanted, but I had to a) pick them up off the floor and b) wash and block them, so I knew I would never remember without writing it down. It's been so helpful in putting these together!
As of this moment, the bottom two squares in the above photo are joined by a long strip of orange, and they look amazing. I've rediscovered my love of mattress stitching (vertically) with these projects. It's so incredibly neat and tames edges more than it would seem possible.
In the spirit of never finishing anything, I also started a clapotis in knitpicks sock yarn (I don't know if they make this anymore, the colorway is called "mesa"). I needed an airplane/train project over Thanksgiving, and none of my other projects would do (can you BELIEVE it?!)
I had a very nice Christmas in San Francisco with my dad and brother, and I hope you all had a nice holiday season as well. I went into shut-down mode because that's what I've done every year of my LIFE so far, having at least two weeks off school, but now that I had ONE DAY off for Christmas (plus two vacation days that I decided to burn) it wasn't very convenient. I got sick, and had to take off the rest of the week, and am now way far behind where I wanted to be on my vacation/sick hours accrued. Oh well.
Happy new year everyone!
posted by al at 9:56 AM
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