All The Memories.

It's Done! My sock yarn scrap blanket (after almost three years!) is complete! All the ends are woven in and I slept with it on the bed last night!

I absolutely love looking at all the squares and reminiscing about the projects that came from certain yarns. I have a fantastic group of friends who also added scrap yarn to the pile so its been great fun seeing them look for their yarn in the blanket.

I have no immediate plans to start another mitered square blanket but I do have a few granny stripe blankets started.

My squares "formula" was a US 3 needle, casting on 32 stitches. Slip the first stitch, knit to the last two before your marker, K2Tog, SM, SSK, knit to the end. The second row is Slip the first stitch and then knit across.

The randomness of the colors and textures makes me so happy! Thanks for appreciating!

Still enjoying Man in the High Castle and joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams in their "Alongs" this week. 

Cozy Memories

Sock yarn is my all-time favorite weight of yarn to work with. Be that as it may, I have a lot of remnants from socks and other fingering weight projects, mostly shawls. I first started with a Beekeepers quilt and quickly realized that it would be too hot for California AND I had to seam all the pieces together....That was a no-go for me.

I started my sock yarn scrap blanket (cozy memory) is April of 2015. I'm using a US 3 nameless metal double points and casting on/picking up 16 stitches per each side. My squares are pretty tiny but they don't take much time to make.

I'm not really following any specific pattern, I K2TOG in the middle and K2TOG through the back loop after the stitch marker. I really like the way they come together down the middle. The size that I'm shooting for is a little bit larger than a twin size bed. I want to be able to tuck it under my feet and up over my shoulders without having to stretch it. Going for that size, I'm about half way done.

I haven't been specific about the yarn that is going into the blanket other than it needs to be fingering weight. I also haven't been specific about the placement of the colors for my squares. They are a jumble of colors and I absolutely love it! I work on this when I feel like it but I will be knitting more when I get back to the States. The sock yarn swappers group is doing #summerofsquares2016 KAL so I'll be slowly updating my blanket as I participate.

Try and stay cool! - Sierra