Eleven mitered squares added to my socka socka blanket in the last couple of days.
It grows slowly partly because it takes some time to pick out new colors while I’m knitting. I try not to repeat a yarn within the same row or two and I try to complete the edges with a mostly dark color.
This morning I devised a plan that I hope will help move it along a little faster. I divided all my available yarn by color family with the idea that I would choose enough yarn to do two rows at a time. Since my blanket is 12 blocks wide I need 24 different yarns to complete two rows. I only had nine piles of yarn so I pulled two and sometimes three colors from each pile and stuffed them in a plastic bag. By the time I was finished I had two full bags and a third missing just about six colors.
As I use a color, I’ll throw it back in the basket loose and once I’ve worked my way through the first bag, I’ll finish making up the third bag, so I always have enough colors picked out to work at least four rows.
That’s my plan and I’m sticking to it until something else comes along. It’s all about the flexibility around here.
Oh, and the other E is eleventy-million Ends to darn in. I’ll show you what I’m doing with all those ends later this week.
Sunday Supper
You should have been here for supper. I marinated prawns in olive oil, lemon juice, zest, pepper and Jerk seasoning for about 20 minutes. Then threw them on the grill before serving them on a bed of couscous cooked with onion, parsley and lemon peel. I had fresh grilled asparagus and Jack got a stodgy old salad. (I’m not sharing the first asparagus of the season with someone who only tolerates the taste.) The whole meal was to die for. It flunked the eating locally idea, unless I can convince you the prawns came from the Missouri River and the lemons off a tree in my back yard? No? Oh well.
And for dessert there was chocolate sauerkraut cake. Yum. There will be a recipe coming for that later this week. Just in case you have a can of sauerkraut sitting in your pantry that you don’t know what to do with.
Finis
I DO in fact have a can, nay TWO cans, of sauerkraut sitting in my pantry. I don’t care for sauerkraut, so why I have two cans is anybody’s guess.
The blanket is awesome.
Can I come over for leftovers? I’ll bring leftover balls of sock yarn in exchange!
The blanket is incredible! Beautiful!
Yes, please, the recipe. Two of my favorite foods are chocolate and sauerkraut. But chocolate AND sauerkraut in a cake–can’t wait!
The blanket it beautiful! I reminds me of those Amish quilts. And such a clever way to use of the bits of sock yarn that I cannot bear to throw away.
Mmmm … memories of chocolate sauerkraut cake – yum! And the blanket is a work of art.
Beautiful!
That’s beautiful.
Wow, that is GORGEOUS!
Great blanket! I hope someday to have that much sock yarn leftover…