Sunday, February 11, 2007

And while I'm uploading awful pictures

I have two squares in progress. One of them will (when it gets done) look familiar to anyone who reads Sarah's blog. It uses the same partridge-stitch pattern I used in her Serial Killer sweater, but I did the stitch in the same yarn that I used for her mittens (Socks that Rock in Sherbet, but I call the colorway Cyndi as in Cyndi Lauper.) The base yarn is the same as I used in the sweater--KnitPicks Wool of the Andes in black. I have not, however, gotten very far with it, as you can see.
This past weekend involved a long car trip, much of which was made in the dark. I decided to take advantage by starting a second square, one that could be done in the dark with occasional busting out of a flashlight for stitch-picking-up purposes. The square in all its [badly photographed] glory:
The yarn that looks blue in the picture is actually a deep dusty purple. It's Stahl Socka Big, and the black is the same KnitPicks yarn I mentioned above. The log cabin square is the same pattern Cecilia talked about a couple of posts ago, inspired by the blanket I made when pregnant with my older son. Oh, what the heck, I'll show you that too:
I attached the squares by picking up stitches around each square and knitting them together with a 3-needle bindoff. I already bought the yarn to knit together Sarah's afghan--Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride in worsted-weight deep charcoal. Probably one of my favorite yarns ever.

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