The Eleanor Roosevelt knit-in was loads of fun and really a nice way to spend a wet dreary Sunday afternoon.
As seems to have been the rule last week, I came unprepared and frazzled. I had my yarn, and I had the block I had knitted previously, but I forgot my camera and forgot several other things. I also paid no mind to what I might be knitting once I arrived.
Namely I just never thought about the idea that a block could be something other than plain stockinette. Of course once I was actually there and started looking at what everyone else was knitting it occurred to me that it might have been nice to think about doing something interesting with my block before I actually started.
Instead I just winged it. I thought I would put a cabled X in the middle of a simple stockinette swatch with garter stitch borders. A pretty simple idea really. I think I should be able to come up with something more interesting on the spur of the moment, but the simple truth was that I couldn't.
For the most part, it worked well although I didn't quite finish the patch. I could have stayed later. A few women were hanging in to finish and I only had about an inch of garter stitch to go. But by that time I realized that I had missed in my off the cuff attempt placing the cable motif at the center of the block; it was about an inch too low. I decided to rip and restart, saving the block for next year.
This is apparently going to be an annual event. One intrepid knitter brought in 127 blocks. I have no intention of competing with her, but I think that I can manage a few blocks for next year. It would be fun on occasion, when I want to play with a pattern, or for those days when I want to knit something (anything) and don't have a project at the appropriate stage. Blocks are also small and portable and a good way to use up some of the yarn left over from knitting hats and scarves for the children at the city schools.
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