After having 10 days off work (including the weekends and Labor Day yesterday), I'll have to head back to work today. Everyone is out of the house by 7 a.m. and I have the house to myself to do anything I want with knitting and yarn! I have to wind up some yarn for the mini swaps. Yes, I've gotten myself into some trouble. I got sucked into making another sock yarn blanket. This time, it's the Beekeeper's Quilt. I found this blanket about a month ago, but just resisted and resisted. There is no good reason to start another blanket when I'm not even at 100 squares with my mitered square blanket. Until... I found a good reason! And that is... I have 2 children. I will need 2 blankets - one for each when I'm gone because who wants to keep my socks? And my son won't appreaciate my shawls...or sweaters - oh wait, I have no completed sweaters yet. No, just kidding! My reasoning is that I wanted to keep my mitered square blanket consisting of sock yarn that I'd used on my projects. But I participated in some swaps and I ended up with about 66 mini skeins of Bugga (90%) and others are other MCNs. I'm joining two more swaps so I should have plenty to start with. This is what the quilt looks like:
This photo was ganked from Tiny Owl Knits. Hopefully, that's OK as I'm linking you to the website. The differences between my blanket and hers is that I'm going to leave mine unstuffed. The individual hexgaon has been called hexipuff. Mine is a hexiflat (some came out with that name). Over the weekend, I mananged to just take some time away from other projects and came out with 3 flats. I'm not doing a good job with seaming them together. So I've ripped them apart. This was before ripping:
My first hexiflat was using Love Bug.
On other news, I'm almost done with the gusset on my Daphne socks:
And GASP! I cast on another sock in Hazel Knits Entice - Aquarius. This is Stephanie (verybusymonkey on Ravelry)'s Mystery Sock:
OK - off to make some mini skeins! Hope you have a wonderful week. The weather is going to be perfect the next few days and I just love Fall!
I was going to sip the mystery soc but, Oh My Bob, I am in serious lust with the first clue! Not sure when I'll be casting on, but I won't be able to help myself! You're also making fast work of that Daphne sock. It looks great!
Posted by: woohoogirl | September 06, 2011 at 07:59 AM
I am trying to resist that blanket but I don't think it will last.
Posted by: ChristyH | September 06, 2011 at 09:01 AM
Those Bee-Keeper quilts are lovely. There is somebody making one on the One A Day Group on ravelry, perhaps you could join us there (if you haven't already)?
Posted by: HillyT | September 10, 2011 at 02:47 AM