The Weekly Wrap Up

THE WEEKLY WRAP UP

It's getting there! Do you think I should make sure every square is a different color on the corners? See the upper corner is purple and currently ends on white. Should it do that? Have purple in two corners and white in two corners (diagonal of each other) or purple (or white) on every corner? If you look below and focus on the first 3x3 square I kind of like that...maybe next week I'll put up exact example of what I mean and you can pick!

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The Weekly Wrap Up

THE WEEKLY WRAP UP

Production is back up! I made 3 & 2/3 squares this week! I've been doing a lot of reading/research for my papers at home which allows me to sit at my desk and knit, pausing occasionally to take note of something important. The picture looks a little different this week because I was changing my sheets and put the squares down on an even surface instead of my bumpy comforter. This allowed me to line them up quite close together so I could get an idea of an actual size. Looks like I'm going to have cold toes when my friends come!

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To sew or not to sew, that is the question. I have 19 more days until my friends come and will probably crank out about 6-8 more squares in that time (imagine one more row width wise to this). I'll want my blanket to be bigger than that - probably at least two more rows in width and one more in length. Should I start sewing so I can have an extra blanket when my friends come in three weeks (which was my whole goal of this project) or just keep it separate? Decisions, decisions...

The Weekly Wrap Up

THE WEEKLY WRAP UP

Production has slowed a bit this week. Usually I spend my afternoons watching tv (while I'm not in class of course!) and while I do that I knit. This week, however, reading has been a priority (and, unfortunately, it's going to continue being a priority). It's time to start research for my papers and hopefully begin them soon so I can have them done by the time my friends visit. This week, only 2 1/4 squares were made and that was pretty much done this weekend.

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The Weekly Wrap Up

THE WEEKLY WRAP UP

This week I made a record FOUR squares! It could actually be a blanket now! Well...for a toddler or small child. I only have 31 days left before the Week of Visitation (it's the Thursday when my aunt and cousin come and then that Sunday my friends get here) and I'm starting to doubt whether it's possible this can be done! I know I'll have a blanket but it's questionable whether it will be a good size. If figure if I continue to make three a week, it will at least be long enough to use and then eventually it will be wide enough. I'm tempted to start sewing it all together but I want to save that as the last thing since it will really be the final touch!

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The Weekend Wrap Up

There's nothing better than spending a cold winter's night wrapped up in a nice, warm blanket. But let's not kid ourselves. Edinburgh is going to be close all year round. Therefore I've come up with the idea of...

THE WEEKEND WRAP UP

I enjoy having something to do with my hands and something that doesn't take much concentrating is knitting. My knitting skills are fairly limited to squares and rectangles. All I've made so far are scarves. My skills levelled up a bit last year when I learned how to switch colours. This year with a couple of friends coming I knew I'd need another blanket so I decided to knit one! Every Sunday I will post the Weekend Wrap Up (in anticipation of being wrapped up in my hand knitted blanket) showing the details of how my blanket is coming along! I officially started this blanket a few days before I left to come back to Edinburgh (so lets say around the 7th of January) although to be honest I tried to start this project about two years ago when I originally bought the yarn. I ended up knitting about 6 purple squares and gave up because it was taking so long. I was using small needles (5, I believe) and I had to knit so many more rows to make the square. Now I've switched to size 11 and it only takes me 3-4 hours to do one (that may seem like a lot but really isn't not...and I'm probably slow). My goal is to have this finished by the middle of March. Let's see if I can do it! In this week alone I did one purple and one white.

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I started off by casting 30 and knit until I can meet both corners in the form of a triangle. Not exactly the best square prediction but it doesn't have to be perfect! The colours are actually a very deep, dark royal purple while this kind of looks black and the white has a slight more cream colour. I think it looks very nice together! What do you think? Can I do it??