Showing posts with label temperature blanket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label temperature blanket. Show all posts

Saturday, March 5, 2022

Misfits box, and a knitting planner par excellence

Yesterday was the day for the Misfits small box, which I ordered on the "wrong" week, to fill out the gaps from the last, unsuccesful, box, and it arrived as scheduled,  phew.

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So we're all up to date. Such a good feeling, all stocked up on excellent food.

Speaking of excellent, look at this thing of beauty

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This is the planning for a temperature blanket, by the leader of the knitting group. By profession she's a reference librarian, can you tell? 

The concept of the temp blanket or scarf is to knit two rows per day, in colors pre-decided to represent the day's average temperature. It makes a great design as the days unfold.

It also requires an enormous range of yarn colors in small quantities, which is why I probably will never make one.

This set-up by Meg is a thing of beauty, just look at the care and color range, all yarn  names and numbers noted and sampled,  then overleaf her project notes.  She's currently up to this week on the knitting. 

She keeps other pattern notes in the same planner, because her projects often involve stitch patterns that just need a reminder to stay on track.

This kind of linear thinking is so far from my own spontaneous approach, and I really enjoy seeing it, very different. 

So I thought I'd share it.

Ukraine's suffering is still on the minds of us all.

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