except that it now has about 45 squares, I think, out of possibly 63 or 70, and the one I want to make might end up looking like this:
That's the floor of the Louvre! Six colours of Felted Tweed, parquet squares, ooooooh! (Actually, look at this! All the squares of the Learn to Knit Afghan! Great job!)
So, I look at my pile of yarn and squares, left hopefully out of the closet, in full view (sort of, until it got covered up with other projects, sweaters, dirty laundry...). I lay out the squares, admire my handiwork, pick up the balls of yarn, arrange by colour... and spy a.... a bug! Actually, some sort of tiny caterpillar-like thing. About half a centimeter long, with huge fangs. Well, I don't know about the fangs, but it had left a little chewed trail in the turquoise yarn. Luckily, I don't care much for the turquoise, but still! Again, luckily, we don't have much food in the freezer, so I put the whole blanket project, my stash of Felted Tweed, the half-made Sweater that Makes Me Sneeze and accompanying wool into deep freeze! And I'll see what else I can jam in there, too!
Now, where did I leave that vacuum cleaner?
I think the Louvre blanket will be lovely.
ReplyDeleteHey, I managed to weave in ends into about 1/2 my squares so far... will hopefully get to the other half this weekend then drop them off on Monday!
I did make 2 wonky squares for myself though and I love them. It did get a bit boring halfway through because I didn't want to take the time to plan out the wonkiness, so I evened them out a little early, but they're still cute.
And in other project news, I am almost (I think thats my word of the day...almost) done a ballet t-shirt for Lily who is always to willing to wear her Mommy's wonky handknits. This time its knit in a forest green cotton from the Hudson's Bay Company (a lovely Value Village find) - wonder how it'll wash up. Speaking of Spring Knits, its almost time for Elaine to wear her beautiful red dress!
Ack! Stash threatened!! Keep us posted.
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