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november 26, 2007
i'm thankful for long weekends full of knitting My mitre mania weekend was a huge success! Here was the stack of afghan squares as it stood at the beginning of last week: 20 squares.
Here it was this Saturday: 42 squares.
And here it is this morning: 50 squares!
I was a mitre making machine! I made 30 squares in the last 6 days, 28 in the last 5! It turns out they go much faster if you don't start them off incorrectly every time. I got about a quarter of the way into the first three before I realized I was working in stockinette and not garter stitch. Doh, double doh, and doh doh doh! How do you do that three times in a row?! Once I convinced my hands that we didn't need to purl that first row, I found myself cranking out squares and winding new skeins of yarn at a record pace. And now I only have 14 squares left to knit. Time to start worrying about how to put them all together. Did you see all those ends?! Fifty and counting.... posted by alison at 10:09 am | in
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Comments
I think that you just might make it! Way to go! Posted by: marti at November 26, 2007 10:39 AMI'm with ya, sister! I'm trying to finish 8 sweaters before Decemeber 1st...I see a few pots of coffee in our futures =) Posted by: Cirilia at November 26, 2007 11:04 AMOw~ My hands hurt just thinking of all that knitting. :) At least it's not a fine gauge! Posted by: Lynn at November 26, 2007 11:33 AMWow, I'm impressed! Great progress. :) Posted by: Kris at November 26, 2007 11:44 AMGood going with the miters! I have to wonder, I've been wondering ever since the miters resurfaces here recently and I saw your planned layout - why not knit the miters in squares of four at one time? Several of the modular books show how to do this, and it would save a lot of sewing in the end. I'm not criticizing the way you're doing it, I think what you're doing is great. Just thinking out loud. Posted by: Shelly Kang at November 26, 2007 12:28 PMWhoa. That's impressive. Keep it up and you're going to give Cara over at January One a run for the "mad miter woman" title! :) Anymore variegated yarn in the miter future? Posted by: Cassandra at November 26, 2007 12:57 PMI'm impressed! I don't envy you the finishing, though! Posted by: Heather at November 26, 2007 1:01 PMGreat job!!!! Isn't it amazing how much more you can get done if you can sit & knit in large chunks of time rather than the same total time in smaller chunks? Posted by: Donna at November 26, 2007 1:23 PMWow! Congrats! It looks like you're leaving decent sized ends... use them for seaming, and kill two birds with one stone. ;) Posted by: Andrea at November 26, 2007 2:04 PMTerrific. I only managed 13 of my sock yarn squares (which for some reason take me almost 3 hours a piece), but progress is great! I can't wait to see the blanket! Posted by: Seanna Lea at November 26, 2007 3:21 PMI loved the suggestions for Nov 21. They suggested a party with tea or wine, old movies and chocolate. If I were a lot closer that would appeal to me! Unless seaming is somebody's favourite thing to do, a party sounds like a great idea. Posted by: Anita at November 26, 2007 3:51 PMwow.... well done. Though I've never met you, I'm convinced that you might just be a crazy person. You'd have to be to knit that many mitered squares in such a short period of time. I bow down... Posted by: Marti at November 26, 2007 4:36 PMYou will make it. Try not to think of the ends, that was the worst part for me. If I had thought it out ahead of time, I would have made larger squares, therefore needing less of them and then I would have had less ends to weave in. I thought of that after sewing 64 of them together. Posted by: Suzanne at November 26, 2007 6:50 PMWow! You are a knitting fiend! Great job on all those squares. :O) Makes me think I should go back to knitting fish for the fish affie...... Posted by: samm at November 26, 2007 7:04 PMWow! They look great! I can't wait to see the finished blanket!! Posted by: Melissa at November 26, 2007 7:52 PMWow! You rock!!! I can't believe how much you completed. Great Job! Posted by: hopalong682003 at November 26, 2007 7:56 PMWow that is a incredible amount of squares kudos Posted by: Cindy at November 27, 2007 12:28 AMYour in-laws should be in awe of you for this! Posted by: Susan at November 27, 2007 8:57 AMweaving in ends is what friends are for...i'll take a bunch :) i've finished my holiday knitting Posted by: lisa b at November 27, 2007 10:15 AMSeaming? You've got three kids, right? :-). Posted by: colleen at November 27, 2007 4:05 PMWow, that's some mitre mountain! Taller than than the robot. (Would that be the robot from Forbidden Planet?) Posted by: Ina at November 27, 2007 6:31 PMWow! I need to channel some of your knitting energy for my ridiculous list of holiday knitting... Posted by: Kat with a K at November 28, 2007 9:42 AM'Take me to your steamer'. That made me smile! I can't wait to see this blanket. It will be gorgeous. Posted by: Traci Sue at November 29, 2007 10:33 AM |
