Traveling blanket

This week the blanket has traveled far and wide.

First up was a trip to a night of knitting and hot chocolate at the City Bakery, where she was admired and photographed by many knitters, including the ladies from Knitty City. I think I ate my body weight in chocolate and I know I made full use of the bar so the night was enjoyable despite the massive overcrowding and lack of space to move/breathe/knit.

Next I took the blanket to work on Saturday.

I don't, as a rule, knit when I'm at work. But since it was a weekend it's technically my time so knitting at the bench seems a little bit more appropriate. I didn't get more than a few squares done though since I was actually doing work, but every little bit counts!

So at the end of week five where do I stand? Or more accurately where do I lie?

Squares: 462
Dimensions: 65" x 29" (a THIRD of the way to 88"!)
Thumb: All healed

Time to go knit some more!

Week Four

Last Week: 293 squares
This Week: 377 squares
Thumb: Still split

That's an average of 10.5 squares a day. Not bad. I'm about 1/4 of the way through the length so at this pace I should finish by, um, let's not go there.

Let's just look at the pretty instead.

Weekly Weigh-In

Two hundred and ninety three squares down, and I'm-refusing-to-calculate-the-number-of-squares left to go! The blanket is currently 65" long and, at it's widest up top, 25" across. It's getting pretty hefty too although I don't have a scale at home sensitive enough to weigh it.

Still loving it. Loving it so much that I have a split in my thumb where I peeled off a callus and the skin underneath couldn't cope with the knitting.... and I'm still knitting despite it. I have run into one slight problem though... y'all have cats. And I don't. One of you has a particularly viciously allergenic cat. But, re-skeining and washing the yarn seems to have helped a lot with the feeling that my lungs are going to crap out on me. I'm not complaining though! I knew the risks when I asked you all to send yarn and to be honest I kind of forgot that I'm the knitting anomaly who doesn't have a cat because I am a delicate flower that is allergic to EVERYTHING. Most of your cats seem to agree with me pretty well and washing a couple of skeins of yarn is a small price to pay for all of your generosity :)

Knit on brave soul!