houseelf: A line drawing of Dobby the house elf holding a skein of yarn and knitting needles. (Default)
The sock blankie currently stands at 7.6% complete, with 76/956 squares knitted and 4/38 edge triangles. I love spreadsheets. All of this is assuming, of course, that I don't change my mind again about the finished dimensions. After all, my original plan would only have required 823 squares. We shall see. At this point, all four of the edge triangles I've done are on the right edge. I think I'm going to hold off as long as possible on doing a left triangle, since it's at that point that the final width will be determined.

In any case, I'll take a picture as soon as I weave in ends again. I was doing well with forcing myself to stop and weave them in every twenty squares, but I was without a tapestry needle when I hit 60 so it looks pretty shaggy right now.

Apart from that, I'm supposed to be working on the March/April selection for [community profile] dwsockclub - Monkey socks. In theory, I would be almost done with one sock by now. In practice, I forgot to bring the yarn home over spring break. Oops. I think that I'm going to make time to get these started later this week, and then toss them in my backpack to work on at school.
houseelf: A line drawing of Dobby the house elf holding a skein of yarn and knitting needles. (Default)
It's probably inevitable that I've decided to make a sock blankie. Blankets are my very favorite kind of knitting project. I like sock yarn - both the feel of knitting that gauge, and the colors. I like instant gratification, but I also like the predictability of having a project that's always ready to be worked on. I have questionable decorating taste. Given all that, the sock blankie is the perfect long-term project for me.

Problem is, I don't knit socks quickly. Working only with my own scraps, I'm pretty sure I'd never accumulate enough to make a whole blanket. This? Is why I love the internet. (And also why I love having a steady job.) A purchase of Koigu mill ends from someone on Ravelry, a purchase of skeinlets from someone on Etsy, and I'm off.

The blankie is two days old and three squares big:

Sock Blankie, day 2

(click to embiggen)

It'd be bigger, but I spent most of yesterday's knitting time swatching and most of today's knitting time winding off skeinlets of the Koigu for a swap. I don't have any idea how long this project will take, but since I intend to use it more as a backup/inbetween project instead of the main thing I work on, I expect it'll take awhile.

Vital Information:
Needles: US 2 (2.75mm)
Square size: 31 stitches
Ravelry project link

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