Half a blanket ...

edited: Hi Judy from Alaska. Yes, this blanket. or rather the squares to knit it, can be found in the Barbara Walker "Mosaic Knitting" book. There are over hundred designs to choose from. It's not hard at all. You only knit garter stitch, RS and WS, you just have to slip some stitches. It's explained very well in the book.


... and you thought I didn't get any knitting done!

I made a decision a while ago, one only I could make. I decided to make Hannah's Magic Mosaic Blanket NOT with 63 squares, but with 40 squares. I just couldn't stand the thought of the never ending squares lining up to be knitted. It may seem that they are very different, but the basic knitting structure is the same. You count black or white squares and knit accordingly. While knitting this, it is just boring, even if the outcome does look different every time. Anyway, after I've agreed with myself, that 40 is a much more realistic and human number, the knitting got easier. So, here you see 20 squares finished. ... once in true colors...

... once in retro ... (I love my little camera with all it's - to me - hidden features)

... once in monochrome ...


They are stacking up, and of course there's a dog hair mingled in. I should have woven in the ends right away, but since I didn't I'm not going to start now. It's four ends to weave in each square, by the way (not too bad).

Half a blanket with quarter of a dog for scale. ;o) Biko and Sam had no respect for this work in progress. They ran over it, and threw the ball on it, it was a wet and slimy ball.

The following two squares are the latest ones, not in the above pictures. I try to knit two squares a week. To keep true to my promise to myself, I'm also working some of the squares for the The Walker Treasury Project, where I post them as they become done.

If you would like to see these squares in a different color scheme have a look at Heike's blog. She's knitting this blanket too. I think we even have the same amount of squares finished, but she's way faster than I am, and knits one sweater after another as well.

# 22-40 (weird monkey-space-spider figures?)

# 21-40 (that's my favorite so far)

This WIP shawl is no more. David saw me rip it out last night, and he said that I'm probably "nuts". This was going to be my triangular shawl, which I wanted to paint, but you all know; deep in you heart you know when somethings not going to work. I wanted to give it another chance and knit on, but in the end I knew it's not going to happen. I didn't swatch, since size didn't matter, but I choose the wrong needle size anyway, but what was the push over the edge was the stitch pattern. It was supposed to show some nubs on the RS, but the most beautiful nubs appeared on the WS, and I did NOTHING wrong (or so I tell myself). No stretching and blocking would have brought them to the other side. So, go it must. I've already cast on for its replacement. The jury is still out whether this one will make it. So many hours of knitting for naught. But that's what I like about knitting. You can start over, since you still have your material.

Supplemental:

I've been tagged. Thank god that doesn't happen too often. You might have noticed that I don't do memes. I think most of them are too personal. This blog is already about ME, since I show my work and some of my thoughts. If I would want to share more, I would and will do it during a post. I don't even read memes on other blogs, that's not why I go there. I hope you'll understand.