Log Cabin Baby Blanket: January 2007 Archives
And then there were 5! This weekend saw the completion of my 5th Log Cabin square for the baby blanket. I am now officially over half way done with this project -- well, at least with the part that involves knitting the squares, and not really including the part that involves seaming and creating a border. That means I have at least 8 weeks to tackle the remaining 4 squares. For once, I am actually ahead of schedule on a knitting project....
Just a brief interlude to share my fourth completed log cabin baby blanket square. Almost halfway through, now! And it actually looks like I am going to be able to get six squares out of my first three skeins of STR heavyweight, which means that I will have plenty of yarn left over for seaming and edging the blanket. And, of course, the next square is already in progress.
The Log Cabin Baby Blanket project is a nice project to have in my back pocket. Whenever I feel tired or unmotivated, I reach into the basket and pull it out and start working in those simple garter stitch rows. Inevitably, after a few of those rows, I sit back, look at my work, and just smile at how those simple stitches turn into something with an elegant geometric quality.
I am now done with the three base squares. The most recent one is the one with the green border. I like looking at all three of them together. It's remarkable to me that you can use the same three colors in different proportions and have squares that leave very different impressions. I've read that early on babies see contrast better than they really identify different colors. If so, I think this blanket should be relatively interesting to my friend's upcoming new addition.
I've started on the fourth square. It's a repeat of the sqare with the blue border. Hard to believe I'm almost half way finished with this project. And there is definitely something about working on these squares individually that makes the whole project seem to go faster than I think it would if I was starting at the center and working my way outward.
