You know when I was little and the temperatures rose, I couldn't understand why my mother could drink hot coffee. When I asked her, she said "Oh I get that from my Dad, he would always say heating the inside cools the outside." Perhaps I need to remember that as I sip my ice water and melt.
Seriously though, this is the hottest week so far her in the burgh and I am feeling it. I always feel like there is a puddle of sweat somewhere and my face is all blotchy and red. Given the temps, I am starting to question my crafting sanity. In a heatwave, I am working on knitting and crocheting blankets. Yes blankets, maybe there is something to heating the inside after all.
This blanket has been featured the past couple of weeks. I finished the first column of blue on Quadrant 2 and started the light blue column. I haven't kept up the pace but I have been trying to keep this project moving forward. I can't wait until fall to snuggle under my stripey blanket.
Red, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Green, Teal, Blue and Purple
I finally am making some headway on my White Centered Granny Blanket. I put this aside a while ago and had to rip out my joins because I did it wrong. Finally in my blanket madness, I decided to get it out again. This time, inspired by the Hue Shift, I am assembling 6 smaller chunks and then putting those together. I can't wait to get this finished and edge the blanket.
Anyway, that was my week. Hope yours is going well.
I have been hard at work this week and weekend. I was off from work last Friday (and the rest of the weekend) and mostly spent the day doing laundry, reading and knitting. I got all of my laundry washed and dried but I still have baskets of clothes to fold and hang. I hate that step.
Since most of my weekend was spent knitting here is my update:
Lucky Shawl at Primanti Bros for the Pens/Sens Game 5
The shawl was out and in progress during Wednesday and Friday's games. As soon as the knitting bag was opened, they scored. I know it sounds crazy but us superstitious fans must do their part too.
Since I am in hockey withdrawal until Saturday (when the Pens take on the Bruins in the Eastern Conference Finals) I decided to save the lucky shawl until the new series starts. Those are going to be nail biters that will need the lucky shawl.
I did another section of Clue Two of my Juego. Now that all of the clues are out, the shawl looks really nice completed though I wonder where I will ever wear this shawl. It's really not to my taste. Perhaps I will give it away to my grandmother when it's done.
Since I was set aside my Leftie until the next series, I decided to work on the filler square that has been in progress since December (oops!). This was just a plain blue square of 60X60 stitches but they are very important for the Justice League Blanket I have planned. As of right now, I have the Red, Orange and Blue Squares complete.
Instead of jumping straight into another solid square I started to look at my plans and decided to put some squares together and see how the join would work.
A little bit of progress really motivates you
Once I started to weave in the seams I became really pleased with the result. This method as shown in the video above does not show the join and it just looks like I switched yarns. There is a bit of a ridge on the back but I am going to put a back on the blanket to hide all of the yarn tails and seams.
When this was done, I decided to start and ultimately finished another super hero square which I will show on Friday. Now all that's left of this column is one solid green square.
Anyway, that was my week. Hope yours is going well.
