Hello, my name is Ivy, and I’m addicted to making mitered square blankets.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Shelly Kang’s Sock Yarn Blankie, I encourage you to go check it out and be amazed. The entire blanket is knit in tiny squares, using sock yarn on small needles. (For the non knitters amongst you, imagine knitting on needles slightly larger than toothpicks. And then making a blanket. Yeah. That.)

Somehow….and I’m not quite sure how…I wound up working on 3 of these simultaneously.

No, I’m not sane.

In my defense, one is a clearly defined long-term project. It only uses scraps from socks I’ve knit. The other two are less restricted; one is knit in bulky weight and one will be using mill ends, mini skeins, yarn bought just for the blankie, and swapped yarn thanks to the lovely folks at the Blankie Mania group on Ravelry. Enablers, the lot of you.

Because of this, I maybe made a stop at Article Pract yesterday after work.

From the back, that’s Lorna’s Laces in Satsuma, Shibui Stacatto in Spring Garden, and Colinette Jitterbug in Alizarine. The Lorna’s Laces and Colinette are for swaps,  and the Shibui is just for me. Because I like it, and it feels like spring. I probably should have got enough to make a pair of socks–and am sure I will, eventually–but didn’t right now.

I then wound up all the yarn into nice little cakes. And promptly hit a wall. For my kitchen scale does not actually measure in small enough incriments to divide the yarn into 5 gram mini skeins. I’m working on getting a new scale, and hopefully will be able to borrow one in the meantime, so that I can get these off. Then, I shall recieve a great bounty of mini skeins and the blanket shall grow!