Sunday, July 5, 2009

one year and counting


, originally uploaded by nirbhao.

last year, on the fourth of july, I started a project that has become somewhat definitive in my life: the sock yarn blanket.

I started with some scraps I had leftover from socks I had made.

another mystery ball *


people started giving me yarn. supersupersuper amazingly nice.
restashing


and I joined a swap... or two.... or...
swap yarn


after about six weeks and a good amount of progress, I realized that I was doing it wrong.


so I frogged it.
after


and I started over.


this time, I had more colors and so I was able to be a bit more random. I also was figuring out that I prefer solid to variegated and that there is a wide world of fibers and textures beyond superwash wool. the blanket grew and grew and grew.


I learned about dyeing


and the blanket grew and grew and grew.


and the entire time I treated it as my pygmalion in my photography.


the swaps were a bit disappointing, because I was throwing in stuff like interlacements and getting stuff like lion brand back. being the snob that I am, I decided to give myself one nice skein of sock yarn per month.
giftmas!


I started a bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb (bouncing blanket ball box with extra b's because that is the fun way to do it) for the types of yarn that I use. it is successful.

and again with the overly dramatic photography


now it is big. yesterday, people who sat next to me would use it as a blanket while I was working on it. on the bottom, I'm two squares shy of my 72" goal.

my stash is best described as intimidating.
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it's likely I'll be knitting this for another two years.

3 comments:

melisa said...

happy blankie-versary!
one year, how amazing, and your blankie looks fantastic.
love the shot of it on the dog!

ddknits said...

I really like all your wonderful photos & enjoyed the story of your journey. It will be fun to see what's next.

Shine said...

thank you, both of you.