Cold Remedy

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!

3 Responses to “Cold Remedy”

  1. knitbysue says:

    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.

  2. Anonymous says:

    The blanket looks fabulous. Great job. Hope you’re all feeling better soon.

  3. Joan says:

    Would Nyquil make the blanket assembly easier or harder?

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