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The Emporia => A Good Yarn => Topic started by: LeilaMay on December 25, 2017, 10:18:19 AM
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Probably 2 years in the doing - because I never wanted it on my lap in the summers - here at last a autumnal coloured blanket for the rocking chair in my workroom :)
Going to do some lace overr the holidays, and then there'll be lots of stripey socks to use up all these left-over yarns!
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Well done, you must have had a lovely feeling when you completed it.
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It's beautiful, LeilaMay - the closest thing to patchwork I've ever seen in knitting. You certainly have a lot of patience, even if it's taken you two years to finish. Well done - it's lovely.
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that's gorgeous LeilaMay
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That`s beautiful LeilaMay.
I`m virtually a non-knitter- can you explain how you did it? If it is basically a lot of squares sewn together I might be able to manage something similar (eventually)
I`d love to have something that I can do in the winter evenings whilst I watch the tele
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I made one of these, Sewingj. If you google "mitred square blanket", there are several blogs which you can follow. You pick up stitches to knit the next square so luckily, no sewing squares together.
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Sorry I didn't get back here sooner. Thank you for the nice comments :)
Pearl is correct, no sewing together for this, or I'd not have started it! You start the first square with a line of cast on, and then decrease in the centre as you knit the shape, and it becomes diamond shaped by the time you cast off the last stitch.Most of the diamonds are made by 'pick up and knit' along existing edges, and you weave in all you yarn ends as you go.
Not technically difficult, just took me ages, and I didn't knit it the summer much as you get too hot with all blanket in your lap!
:)
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Thanks I`ll do a bit of research and hopefully have a bash. I can`t sew in the evenings as our dining/sewing room is too cold. I need a project to help banish the post-Christmas blues!
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Sewingj, I'm knitting one of these at the moment. I started it to supposedly to use up sock yarn but now I buy suitable yarns when I see the right colours.
I wanted to teach myself continental knitting so wanted a project I could do in garter stitch with no complications. I aim to average one square a day and am just about on track apart from a short hiatus when my eldest GS asked for a scarf (can't say "not yet" to a 5 year old, he won't want Grandma knitted things for ever).
Mine is going to be a simple rectangle, not fancy on-point like LMs
LM did you block yours to get it to lie so nice and flat?
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No, I confess I haven't blocked it - I thought about it - does that count?
I just smoothed it out for the photo :)
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No, I confess I haven't blocked it - I thought about it - does that count?
I just smoothed it out for the photo :)
I love the idea that thinking about it does the trick ;), pity it does not work on h*******k :(
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I have three crocheted blankets I need to block - do you think it would work if I thought very, very hard? (I hate blocking :S)