Monday, January 19, 2009

Sage advice

Not mine, but Elizabeth Zimmermann's: Knit on through all crises.

I'm not sure the last week qualifies as a crisis, but it's been rough. Fortunately, I've had my knitting to help get me through. Here's a brief survey of what I've been working on.

Patrol socks for Mr. Darcy:


A Noro two-row scarf for my dad:


A gigantic granny square baby blanket that I will probably donate:


These three projects offer a nice variation in yarn weight and technique that's easy on the hands, simple enough to be pretty mindless, but with enough variety to save my sanity. Thank God for yarn.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If I had a dollar for everytime I said TGFY, well, if I had a hank for everytime, you get the picture. I love me some big granny squares. I have one of those too, I just keep adding rows when I find I just need to take the edge off. I found I can actually do grannies without looking! I just feel for the hole and go! That didn't sound right.

Socks are pretty too, and you fell for that scarf thing too? I hear everybody's doing it now.

Unknown said...

That gigantic granny square baby blanket is the way to go--no seaming! That's my kind of a project.

Knit on.

Brena said...

I love the colors you choose for the granny square blanket. It looks great!