It's been over a month since I last shared my Elder Throw blanket progress. Back when I started it, I over-optimistically planned to finish it by the end of 2025, dedicating roughly 6.5 weeks to each of the eight original pattern releases. After all, the first panels are basically just garter stitch and that's super quick and easy to knit.
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| Three down! |
Best laid plans and all that!
As it happens, they are pretty quick to knit up. I can do a standard square in about two sittings of an evening. The thing that slows me down is when I need to pick up the stitches to join the first two squares together and knit the third and fourth squares of a panel. Actually picking up stitches in this project isn't so bad, garter ridges make it nice and straightforward but I still need a degree of concentration. Recently, I was chatting to my mum while picking up stitches along the edge and realised when I got to the end I was one short. When I looked back along the row, I'd missed the very first stitch so had to pull them all off and start over again!
Despite my relatively slow progress on these squares, it is one of my favourite things to knit. The fact that each square involves using two balls of yarn at a time means it's not always a portable project and relies on me having the space in my bag to fit them in. Obviously, what this tells me is that I need a bigger bag!
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| These colours! |
I'm now at the point of finishing my final four square panel. This will be followed by a nine square panel and then I'll be finally done with these mitred squares and onto something new!
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