My square

I never posted information on my square, which you can see in posts below. It's dark, sort of spiral looking, and labeled with a green star-shaped tag.

The yarn is Pomfret, a retired sport weight from Brunswick. It's left over from my very first sweater (which means it's been in my stash for about 10 years), through which Sarah held my hand the entire time. I forget the color name, but it's, you know, purple. In fact, Sarah had finished a sweater in the very same yarn just before I knit mine. Now that I think of it, I may have even bought the yarn from her.

The pattern is from the first Great American Afghan, designed by Joan Schrouder (Knitter's Spring 1996). It's knit from the center, with 4 increases every round instead of 8 increases every other round. The increases are always in the same place instead of mirrored, and this gives the 'square' it's spiral vortex-like look. I swear it will look less wonky once you get it in place. I knit it with two strands held together, as I wanted to give it a bit more structural integrity.

Terri

Decisions

I could blog about the squares I just got, and the ones I sewed up last night...

or I could do some more sewing up.

I think I'll do some more sewing up. The crappy pictures are on my camera though; stay tuned.

Lookit!

A sunny day in the living room led to this...


And this...

And this...

And then the sun went down. And then the mailman came. And he brought us these!
Wow!!!

This is what I get for hiring non-union labor

So, you know my really cheap in-house mail opener? The one who is not quite three years old?

When we got all those envelopes on Friday (seven! seven envelopes!) he got a little, shall we say, enthusiastic. He opened each of them, one by one, under supervision, and I carefully put each square back in its envelope with whatever accompanying note. Then I put them on a shelf.

This morning, I discovered that he had opened them all. Again. Along with two envelopes from the day before. And stacked all the squares neatly on my dresser, with all the [identifying] packaging materials and notes dumped on the floor.

So now I'm trying to figure out whose is whose. I think it goes like this:

Diana: diagonal garter square in purple and white (Araucania?)
Pat: Noro cabled square
Michele: handspun alpaca with vertical ribs in the middle
Angie: two (two!) Trekking XXL squares
Anna: green openwork cables
Wendy: dark purple garter in what looks like Manos

This leaves me with a totally unidentified white Aran square (that one I know came without a return address, so I can't blame the mail opener) and a striped square knit from the center out. That one looks like half the stripes are handspun and the other half are commercially spun Aran-weight purple yarn.

Sigh. It occurred to me while trying to sort the mess out that probably Sarah would be able to pick out who knit what just like your second grade teacher could identify all the homework by the handwriting. Still, I'd like to get it right!

Right now I have 22 squares in hand, and I know of 2 more coming. If I get just one surprise, I'll be at 25!

Two More Squares

These two are headed out this afternoon!The top one is Crystal Palace Taos in Knitty's Lizard Ridge pattern.
The bottom one is Kathmandu Aran in a pattern from Barbra Walker.

Only problem... I seem to have deleted the email with the address on it. Can anyone help me?
~Rae
rach_2001 AT hotmail DOT com

Twenty!

I have twenty squares! And two more on the way that I know of?

Think there are another three coming that I don't know about, so that we can get to 25?

Here's hoping.

Sorry (again) about the appalling pictures. I'm hoping for some sun this weekend to do a slightly less awful job. But don't worry, Sarah will be sure to take better ones.

Speaking of Sarah, we have to give this to her sometime. I was thinking of a surprise presentation at a knit-in. Other ideas? I'm probably going to have to hear about it afterward, because I'm not in Lansing--but if anyone knows anyone planning a trip from here to there who'd like a passenger (the train schedule is hopeless, I tried) I might be able to swing it.

Off to seam. Stay tuned!

Now we are thirteen

Five more squares!

From Deirdre...

From Kathy...

From Terri...

This fabulously blocked item from Nancy...

And--hello! all the way from Australia, from Cecilia!