Date: March 2013
Wow. Did we even remember I was knitting this afghan? I love the look of cables with all their structural patterns and rhythmic complexity. By Australian standards, we have a reasonably cold winter, so the idea of a warm cozy blanket for sofa surfing sounds appealing. The Cascade 220 wool is lovely and soft and bouncy and forgiving. Its all good folks. There's really no need to leave this gorgeous project in the cupboard.
In March 2013, I spent 20 hours knitting and have made another Aran square, my fifth. This time, the Ginette Belanger block. I choose to make an 'easy' one and I forgot to check ravelry before I started. It went really smoothly thank goodness. I guess I felt I needed some confidence boosting after my last few experiences.
I have chosen not to block as I go but in some ways I regret that because I'm sure that, while I love this gorgeous block, it will look even prettier once neat. And one more niggly little thing - I photographed this Ginette Belanger block, loaded it up to the internet and then noticed the block is positioned upside down. aack. Doesn't warrant a redo. You'll see it all the right way around, and nicely blocked in some future time, in a universe far far away.
One thing I did notice was that I made a note to myself to leave the highlighter tape at the row TO DO. At some stage I came back to the project and found it tricky to work out if the place where I had left the tape, was where I had finished knitting or where I was meant to start knitting. Also was I meant to pick up knitting from the text above the highlighter tape or the text below? It obviously doesn't matter which way you do it, as long as it makes sense to you and is consistent. As I have a rotation system for my projects, I do put things down and it can take quite some time before I come back to them, particularly if life happens, so its not really surprising that some of my aide memoirs are actually aide confusement.
Previous posts
GAAA - Janet Martin's block finished (September 2012)
GAAA - Jay Campbell block (October 2011)
Great American Aran Afghan (September 2011)