If I keep this blog writing-exclusive, it's going to be updated in weird fits and bursts. Easier to use it to track all of my hobbies and ramble here instead of Facebook so my small and distant group of friends doesn't become frustrated with my incessant stream of craft-related babble.
In that case: knitting.
If I keep knitting at this rate:
1) I will finish this blanket before it gets too hot to use it.
2) My arms will fall off.
I have yet to decide which matters more.
Still, just finished Log Cabin Square #6. So far, I have three in Noro Kureyon (all colorway 254) and three in KnitPicks Chroma (one each in colorways Pool Party, Galapagos and Pegasus). With the space for the edging, if I place the blocks three wide and two tall, it takes up about a third of my twin bed. So it would take eighteen to make a twin-sized blanket and I'm hoping to make something closer to queen sized, so I'm aiming for either 25 (5x5) or 30 (5x6) blocks total.
I've used all of my Noro on the three blocks of colorway 254. I have enough of the Chroma to make (including any blocks I've already knit) two blocks of Galapagos, two blocks of Mix Tape, two blocks of Pegasus, six blocks of Pool Party and four blocks of North Woods. That means I have enough supplies for nineteen blocks at the moment, not including the edging. So I need around five more skeins of Chroma to finish this thing, plus whatever yarn I'm using for the border (criteria: cheap, worsted weight, not acrylic, solid black). Oh hello KnitPicks clearance sale~~
In mostly unrelated news: I just learned how to make a mitered square. All I can say is "DUH." Now that I've seen one up close (albeit in video), it's absolutely obvious. I love how knitting is like that. You look at something and it's completely incomprehensible... until suddenly it's so obvious that you can't believe it was ever less than perfectly clear. One minute you're this walking tangle of knots and yarn, and the next minute you could do it in your sleep.
I am now resisting the urge to make a mitered square blanket in combination with my log cabin blanket. RESIST.
I figure this knitting craze will blow over soon after the new year gets here. I normally drop a new project by now -- I'm a little bit surprised to find that it's still holding my interest. It's been three days of relatively intense work without much incentive to continue, progress-wise.
So I decided earlier that I have around five or six more skeins of Chroma to finish up this blanket. I know I'm going to get at least one more skein of Pegasus, because I quite liked that. I'll probably get two skeins of Roller Skate because those colors are lovely and I want them and I don't need a more articulate reason than that. I like the look of Mix Tape on the skein, but I want to see how my square knits up before I commit to buying more of it -- some of the projects with it on Ravelry are kind of yucky looking. North Woods is lovely, but I already have two skeins... but let's be realistic: I like the colorway and it's on clearance. I'll probably buy more of that, too.
It is entirely possible that I'll make a second patchwork multicolor blanket using Chroma (possibly accented with Noro). I like several of the colorways that are on clearance and therefore not coming back. I should stock up on them before they go away. Especially Pegasus, North Woods and (if it looks as good knit as it does in the skein) Mix Tape.
Galapagos was disappointing. I love the way it looks on the skein and I love the colors, but there's significantly less variation than I'd prefer. It's pretty, but it's a nebulous, drifty kind of pretty. If I wanted something with that much consistency in color, I wouldn't have bought Chroma. In general, my major complaint with Chroma so far is that the colors lack complexity. They're all very vibrant individual colors -- nothing is muted and greyed out unless it's done intentionally. I kind of like the "kid put the crayons in a blender" aspect of Noro where you sometimes get terribly clashing colors stuck next to each other but in the end, it somehow ties itself together because there's so much variation that it actually starts to harmonize. That's a terribly mixed metaphor.
This post is even more rambly than usual. To anyone who has the misfortune of stumbling upon it: I apologize.
