A Pause for a Good Cause

While secret knitting continues in the background, I have paused some projects to work on a bit of charity knitting. About a month ago, my friend Kat put out a call for some knitters to contribute some squares toward a charity blanket (inspired by the call on the Mason-Dixon Knitting blog). Soon there were about a dozen of us, and one woman even took it upon herself to order yarn that we could all use and distribute it to us. So now I am knitting squares -- well, I'm starting with the first one, anyway, but eventually there will be two.

The pattern is Kay Gardiner's Mitered Crosses Blanket, which I'd actually bought way back when she first published it as a charity fundraiser. The yarn we're using is Berroco Ultra Wool, a 100% superwash worsted weight that I was not familiar with but that I'm greatly enjoying (I expect Rainbow will be getting her next school sweater in this yarn). We're all using the gray as the corners of the miters and the log cabin frame, but there are a handful of inside colors being used. I've got this lovely mossy green, which is the very descriptive color 33118.

I am nearly finished with the mitered squares in the center and will finish that up and get started on the border tonight after I put Rainbow to bed. I think my first square looks a bit wonky, but I think I also know why and how to fix it on the next blanket square. Aside from the rather large number of ends to weave in (and I am weaving in some as I go to make things easier on myself), I'm quite enjoying this knitting. There's just enough pattern to be engaging but not so much that I can't knit while watching TV or having a conversation. I expect that at some point I will get out the many skeins of Noro Kureyon I have from a frogged entrelac stole and use them for a blanket for me.