Sitting down with an old UFO

Unfinished object, that is.

Back before I got knocked up with The Miss, a friend and I had started a pair of granny square afghans. The plan was that we'd each do the full number of squares and trade. She got busy with work and school, and I took over the square-making for each of us. Eventually, I got her box of squares, to mix with mine and turn into an afghan. Hers is for a king-sized bed, so I only work on it this time of year.

She just got a new bed, which prodded me to dig it out, find the yarn I'm doing the assembly with, and get to work.*

I'm joining 7" squares into sets of four and adding a border, then joining the 4-square blocks into 7 rows, 7 wide. (Which may or may not get a final outer border, depending on my mood.) I've got 4 rows, 7 wide of the 4-square blocks assembled so far. So, roughly halfway.


* Because I can't justify starting new until I get some of these old hang-around things done. And I just got the knitting in history issue of Piecework, and it has socks and a scarf I really want to knit.

Contributing to the delinquency....

The BoyChild is intently paging through one of my reprints of Weldon's Practical Needlework (volume 3, I think, circa 1895), and has thus far resisted every attempt to take it away from him. He seems to be fascinated by the crazy quilting section.

In projecting news, when looking for the yarn for the big afghan, I found a stack of squares already assembled into 4-square blocks. So the fifth row is done, and I've got enough put together to do most of the sixth row.

I think the final product will need to have a border, which will mean at least 2 more skeins of yarn. But I may need more anyway, just to get it all put together.

In order to maintain my motivation, I keep telling myself that finishing this will empty 2 or 3 boxes. and morw in the long run, because leftover squares will go into another afghan for The Miss. She's been trying to steal this one all day.