Addictive Knits
A week or so ago, I started a memory blanket. The plan was to make it a long term blanket made of sock yarn scraps that I would work on from time to time when I had a new pile of fingering scraps from projects. I don’t know if there is a laugh track high enough and cackling enough for how much that didn’t happen. I’ve taken to posting the project on instagram with the tag #justonemoresquare.
I was calmly making a square a night when I got home from work. Then it was a square and a half, then the weekend came. First I reached 10 squares. I set a goal for myself that I would weave in the ends every 10 squares so I wouldn’t have a nightmare of a finished blanket. Friday, I did just that.
Ten squares, ends all weaved in, not bad for a project I only seem to work on in the wee hours of the evening. But then came that magical time. The weekend. I went from 10 squares to 12 and it was just Saturday.
Sunday I had plans with some friends to watch the end North and South as we started watching it bit by bit ages ago and finished the last part** last night. **Except book three, there is no book three, just nope. Nope. The images on the DVD case alone were enough to make us recoil in horror.
I seem to now have 18 squares. and the start of square 19. I think I am going to run out of mini skeins before I slow down. I am also spinning samples to include in the blanket but none are anywhere near done. Currently I am knitting around, so the light colored square next to the orange one is my first square and the center of the blanket. Once I choose a size I may start working only in one direction. And I’ve been pondering a worsted version. I’m pretty sure there will be more squares by the time this is posted.
Edit: 19 squares…