Literally, because most of these pieces are way too short to really be of use anymore.
But this method totally didn’t work. Especially once I started weaving in the ends. It made it way too thick, plus the color showed through to the other side.
So now I’m starting over from scratch. Going to just make tube socks with afterthought heels and duplicate stitching the decoration. Hopefully that makes it all go a bit faster. After all, there are only fifteen days left until Christmas.
That is where my christmas projects stand. Granted, the one that is a mess is only a mess because I have to weave in nine million ends when I am finished. But it is looking like a stormtrooper on the outside which is what counts. Well, two stormtroopers which is why there are so many tiny ends hanging out.
I feel like this is fairly good progress in getting everything done by Christmas. You know, as long as I actually keep working at this pace.
I finished my squares for my blanket project a couple weeks ago, and now I am on to the sorting and blanketifying process. (Let’s all just pretend that is a real word and move on, shall we.) The sorting process is moving much quicker than the knitting or end weaving processes.
I started by dumping them all out and splitting them by neutral, warm and cool colors so there would be less to separate in each group. Plus I had three bags to put these in and splitting them that way made the most sense.
Then I took each group and sorted by main color. IN this picture of the cool colors, I have purple, blue, and green, even though there are many different shades in each. Those piles were then separated further into their shades, counted, and bagged with the number on them.
Once I had them separated, I went ahead and roughly measured them to even further group them by size. This will come in handy when I go to join them together into blankets.
Of course, at first I neglected to realize my L-square actually measures from the outside edge so everything I was measuring was coming out an inch larger than it really was. I fixed that and catalogued all the colors and sizes in a nice little spreadsheet for even easier reference when I’m setting up the blankets.
Quick facts from the chart:
This was a little surprising since I set out to make four inch by four inch squares originally
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