Saturday, February 7, 2009
The First Afghan Square
Another tidbit about my life, for anyone who's interested: I knit! I'm currently working on a baby afghan for a very close friend's baby, who is due to arrive in May. I'm making it sort of a patchwork of different squares, each a different knit pattern. The squares will alternate between light yellow and light green, with a cabled light blue border in between each square and around the whole afghan. The baby's gender is currently unknown (They should have been able to tell several weeks ago but he/she was being uncooperative!), so I wanted the colors to be very soft while still being gender-neutral. In the end it will be four squares by five squares, and each square is about nine by nine inches, and the cable border is about two inches wide. It's based on an afghan my mom and I made before I started college, but in that afghan, each square was of something significant in my life or based on a sweater or knit that my mom had made me as a kid. This afghan will just be textured patterns and no "pictures," and obviously they're just random patterns that I liked as opposed to ones that have particular significance, but I think it'll be pretty awesome all the same. I thought I'd go ahead and share pictures of each of the squares as I finish them, and then eventually share the finished product. My friend's baby shower is in late March, and I'd LOVE to have finished it by then, but I think I'm dreaming. Anyways, here goes nothing! I hope you like it!
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3 comments:
I crochet -- knitting's too hard for me!
I started a "patchwork" afghan once... I made all the squares, and ever sewed some of them together... but I never finished it. The squares are all still sitting at the bottom of my wool-tub. (Maybe I'll get it out today, and go ahead and finish it off... give me some closure!)
I love knitting the individual squares - it's so nice to get to change patterns so often since it keeps me from getting bored!
Mine was all the same pattern (the squares were all the same). But the pattern was a little complicated, so by the time I got to the last squares I finally felt I had it down! :P
My mom's working on an afghan with different squares, and she's enjoyed working on it. I should try it, but I'm not confident on my sewing abilities (I hate weaving in ends, I always feel it's not good enough).
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