400 Stitches in 60 Days (Take Two)

Okay, let me try this again.

I recently got the book 400 Knitting Stitches as a resource for my knitting. As I started looking through all the different stitch patterns, I saw many cool patterns I wanted to try. With way too many random piles of leftover acrylic yarns I don’t want to use for any other projects, I decided to turn this book into a project.

I’m casting on somewhere around 21 stitches for each (depending on the number of stitches needed for the pattern), including 4 edge stitches (2 on each side). Obviously there is going to be some variation in the sizes. Once I’m done I’ll stitch them together into blankets for Project Linus.

As the title implies, I’m going to attempt to do this in just 2 months. I started on March 29, so I hope to be done making the squares by May 28. Then I will start the blanket-making process, hopefully getting done within a week or so. Because I don’t want to be making blankets in the middle of summer, even kid-sized blankets.

When I first came up with the idea for this, I thought I’d post the pictures of the ones I’d done every day. Not going to happen. But the photos of all the squares can be found in this album, updated frequently.

I Did It!

That’s right, this week’s project was a success!.

Skylark Front

Five balls of yarn became 75 chart repeats in 25 rows and 3 columns at 50 x 14 inches in just 6 days. Pretty impressive if I do say so myself. I blocked it last night, but it is still drying a bit in the back window of my mom’s car so it will be ready to wear this afternoon.

skylark back

For more information about the yarn or pattern, see the original post or my Ravelry project page.

I’m Back!

Oh, hello there. Lovely impromptu hiatus I went on there. At least I have a nice backlog of projects to share.

Before I go backward, let’s take a look slightly into the future. About 5 days into the future to be exact. Remember last year when I made a fancy version of the “One Skein Shrug” for my mom to wear to her work gala? I’m making a stole this time.

More specifically, I’m making this: yarn
into this:

©STC Craft from Ravelry.com
Skylark Stole

by Saturday.

The pattern is the Skylark Stole from Wendy Bernard’s Custom Knits Accessories. It is going to be 53 inches long when I’m done knitting, blocking to about 64 inches (supposedly). I’m using HiKoo Simplicity in silver from The PurlSide in Glendora, CA.

Am I slightly insane? Everyone seems to think so. That just makes me want to prove it can be done. In fact, I’m already this far after starting yesterday: daily progress
I’ll totally be done by Friday to block it by Saturday. I hope.