hi! i want to show you the progress i made with my sock yarn blanket. i've been knitting like crazy yesterday evening and this morning because there were only four squares left to finish the row.
(if you're tired of my yarn comparisons - just don't read it - haha!)
this is what i showed you at the beginning of april - seven rows completed:
after row eight i totally forgot to take a picture and went right on to row nine, which is done now:
i cheated a little and used two balls of yarn that i hadn't made socks with yet to make two squares. (sixth from the left and second from the right in the top row, in case you're interested.) i also have decided to start repeating yarns i had used earlier already. i don't even know why this is such a big deal for me... i guess i just had a very clear vision of what this blanket was supposed to be like and now it takes me a while to adjust my ideas and imagination. i'm just over halfway through the project; there are 108 squares already and i've use 90 or so different yarns. using each yarn only once or twice (provided the second square looks different enough from the first one) is not really reasonable even if i generally don't mind it growing slowly... i just like it so much i want to start using it properly.
there is one square that i like particularly (apart from almost all of them of course):
i made this one using my magic ball of yarn.
whenever i have some scraps that are too long to throw away but too short to make a stripe in a scrahappy sock i russian join them (plenty of videos for that on youtube) and wind them into a ball that just keeps growing until i decide to use some of it for something. it took me a while to decide if i wanted to keep adding to the ball until i had enough to make a pair of socks or if i wanted to use it for my blanket. i decided to use it for the blanket because there are quite a lot of joins. the russian join creates a neat and barely noticable join without knots but i thought having too many of them in socks might not be the best thing after all... i love the fact that i have no idea what's under the top layers of this ball any more. whenever i knit with it it will be a total surprise - this really is the perfect ball of yarn for me as i love long and unpredictable colourways.
when you look at the photo where you only see the two latest rows you can see that the magic ball square looks slightly similar to the one directly below it. (fifth from the left.) i thought that was funny beause one is made of scraps and one is an opal Hunderwasser colourway (the third of the same yarn that made a square completely different from the previous two).
here are two more squares made with the same yarn that look very different from each other:
the yarn is Opal Hundertwasser "Regen auf Regentag", which i've used for two pairs of socks already.
i'm still enjoying this project very much and it's okay for me that it is rather slow going... either i collect a few yarns to add to it and then make a few squares in one go or i join a new one whenever i have a new pair of socks finished. recently i've been making lots of summer scrahappy socks with little bits of left overs that i've used in the blanket already (and that are becoming too small to make a whole square out of) and not so many "full grown" pairs - summer has struck and it's just too hot to even think of autumn or winter socks.
i had an idea for a colour themed sock yarn blanket by the way: i think i'm going to order some value packs in carefully chosen colour combinations from here and use only them for a blanket that will hopefully turn out all blended and harmonious in only a few colours... we'll see how that goes (and when i can afford it)...
love to you all and enjoy whatever you're doing! xxx