If you give a knitter a spring break, she'll probably finish knitting the squares for her psycho blanket.
Then she'll probably want to block them. If you can even call what she does "blocking". She'll dunk each square in the bowl of water. She will feel like a Southern Baptist minister. She'll probably start to say things like "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." Then, as if that's not sacriligious enough, the yarn fumes will really start to get to her, and she will make up some new ones, like "I baptize you in the name of Ann, Kay, and Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee", or "I baptize you in the name of knit-two-together, slip-slip-knit, and stockinette stitch."
While the squares are drying, she'll have to look online for directions for how to mattress stitch.
After she does that, she'll stack them up all nice and neat and admire the general splendor.
Then, being the devoted daughter that she is, she will probably make her dad a birthday cake. She still needs to practice the icing part, but she's getting better.
Once all the blocks are dry, she will spread out a sheet on the living room floor and figure out the arrangement. It will take her an hour because she was pretty random when she was making them. Then, she will discover the magic that is mattress stitch (oh mattress stitch, how I doth dote on thee!) and sew up 5/6 of the blocks before she goes back to school. By then, the spring break is over, and it will take her almost a week to sew up 1 more block. But that, dear friends, is what happens if you give a knitter a spring break.
3 comments:
So? Is it done?!?! Where is it? The squares look great!
I blocked four miters the other day to measure them, and I just did it with my iron on a high steam setting. For some reason, they don't all fit together quite right, did you have to do some tugging to get the stripes to line up? Oh dear, I think I messed something up. And I'm half way in now! Oh dear.
you are to be given the highest of commendations. Sewing up all those squares, even with mattress stitch, would not be my first choice ever. They'd still be sitting in a pile many moons from now. Looks great.
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