Along with nursing three colds this week (Julie’s, Sophie’s and my own), I’ve been quietly working on a project that is almost as draining of my knitting mojo as the colds…
Remember these squares that I brought home from Camp?
They’re the squares that my knitting students made to be put together into a baby blanket for charity. Put together by me. As in, I get to do all the “fun” part of finishing. Me, the girl who avoids knitting things in multiple pieces because even though I’m pretty darn good at finishing, I really have no fondness for it. And like most UFO’s, the longer a knitter puts it off, the bigger the hurdle to getting that finishing project done.
So I pulled it out, and I knit a couple squares to replace a couple that were a little too wonky. I seamed them all up into groups of four, but it was clear that one mega-square was much bigger than the others (bottom-left).
So I picked up stitches along two edges of each of the three smaller mega-squares and knit a few more ridges of garter stitch to help compensate, then joined all four mega-squares with three-needle bind-off.
And right now it looks like this:
It’s a little psychodelic. The one square is still a tiny bit bigger, but I’m still planning to add a border around the whole thing and block it, which should help.
Tonight, though, I have had just about all the blanket finishing I can handle. I am so tired from a week of taking care of sick little girls while dragging from my own nasty cold. I even ordered out pizza for dinner – something that I couldn’t do until just a few days ago when we were cleared to try Julie on wheat – and we were all pretty much too tired to really enjoy it.
And when we came down from putting the girls to bed, Joe asked me to promise him that I would go to bed early tonight. So I did. I have until 10:00, and then no matter what I am doing I am going to put it down and hit the hay.
In the mean time, I am going to watch a DVD and start a totally frivolous, just-for-me knitting project. I need to feed my knitting mojo. Wish me luck!
Sorry you are feeling under the weather. Hope you feel better soon.
When my kids were little I never could decide what was worse: taking care of healthy kids when I was ill or taking care of sick kids when I felt OK. But definitely taking care of sick kids when you are sick yourself has to be the worse.
That blanket looks great, btw.
The blanket looks fabulous. Great job. Hope you’re all feeling better soon.
Would Nyquil make the blanket assembly easier or harder?