Knittinggarden

...in the middle of nowhere with a ton of unpacked boxes, but it sure is pretty.

It's that time of the year when it's only natural to think about how the past year went and how things might be different in the new year.  I am making more changes than usual and am gradually altering my thinking towards embracing the new and not feeling as if I'm being dragged kicking and screaming from my usual routine.  Even though this has been coming for awhile and is good, all change is stressful and, especially as I get older, hard to embrace. About a year and a half ago, we started designing a house that would be built on a small lake on property that has been in my family since the 1940s.  To accomplish that, I had to kick out the deadbeat renters who were there, get the design going, and get the little shacks on the property torn down.  There also were a couple of huge fir trees that unfortunately had to go.  Somewhere around last January, the site was ready and the construction commenced. I had been trying to spend several months a year in Pa...

My sock yarn blankie is done!  I started the project in October of 2008 and finished the edging in November of 2013.  Not the speediest of knitting, but it wasn't continuous, either.  I had been reading about a scrap blanket in a blog and thought that it would be fun to make one. Mine ended up 15 squares high by 16 squares wide. It started with scraps from one of the first skeins of sock yarn I bought and made into socks. It progressed in fits and starts.  My original plan was to use my own scraps from socks I had made and then take 5 gram lengths from new skeins to make the blanket.  The large squares were all to be Wollmeise.  Then I joined a group on Ravelry dedicated to this blanket pattern, which quickly became a swapping group.  You would join a swap, buy a skein of yarn, divide it into about twenty mini skeins, and send it off to a "Swap Mom".  She would repackage all the yarn that came in and send everyone back an envelope with tw...