As some of you know, I recently started a volunteer role with an aged nursing home. This started only 3 weeks ago. I now have a core of 5-10 ladies who are knitting for our project, and we are well on the way to making something of it. I had the idea the day before I started, just came to me, and I created the design in one night. Everything about it, including the number of stitches, size of squares, colours, materials - everything just came to me without much thought, just fell into place. And one of my lady knitters said to me yesterday: "Well, you're going to be busy sewing this up, because you've got your elves hard at work!"
We now have about 40-50 squares knitted (120 to go!). The hatching represents which way the grain will run when stitched together. The purpley ones are a wool called "Purple Popper" which is variegated - that will be the main colour to be seen in the blanket, with lavender ribbed squares and grey ridged squares interspersed.
The blanket, once finished, will be donated to the home and I hope they can find a way of displaying it so that the ladies who contributed can see it as they pass on their way to the dining room, or whatever.
We now have about 40-50 squares knitted (120 to go!). The hatching represents which way the grain will run when stitched together. The purpley ones are a wool called "Purple Popper" which is variegated - that will be the main colour to be seen in the blanket, with lavender ribbed squares and grey ridged squares interspersed.
The blanket, once finished, will be donated to the home and I hope they can find a way of displaying it so that the ladies who contributed can see it as they pass on their way to the dining room, or whatever.
