Kaity’s second square for Grandma’s Blanket is the Instant Plaid from Barbara Walker’s Learn-To-Knit-Afghan Book.
Instant Plaid
She’s really getting the hang of stranded knitting.
Technical specs:
- Yarn: Berroco Comfort, Colors Cadet (9747) and Boy Blue (9707)
- Needles: Size 6
- Pattern: Instant Plaid
Other cool knitting:
knit-a-blog
Earlier this month, Wired featured a story on Geek Art, with particular reference to the knit-a-blog, a project started in 2005 which:
put a blog at the center of its challenge. Each of the 20 or so participants had to create a knitted patch and then hand it over to the next participant. The receiver of the patch would have to photograph it and upload it to a blog called glittyknittykitty, where its progress would be tracked…The knit-a-blogathon also borrowed from the principles of open source programming. Participants could add, embellish or change patterns, but they had to build on the work of previous knitters. They also could not remove or alter any work already done. All the work would be the public domain and participants would have to agree to freely contribute in terms of time, ideas and yarn.
Open source knitting – awesome!
–Image credit: BildMuseet
