neadods | 2009 Knitting Project

Long story short, as part of pulling my act back together, I want to have a specific 2009 knitting project to work on a little bit all year... starting over Christmas vacation this year. I have the yarn for each of these, so it's just a question of which one gets cast on first.

Entry Number One: Warm Up America. To be done in 5 colors of cotton in the Yarn Harlot stitch. Advantages: Portable. Each block will take ~3.5 hours and at 49 blocks, that makes it easy to make the commitment (and leaves three weeks to sew it together and give it an I-cord border.)

Entry Number Two: Roman Square. Advantages: Each sub-stripe will be almost exactly 1 hour to knit, making it a good TV project. The per-block time is longer (about 6 hours) but there are only 30 blocks.

Entry Number Three: This is the one I've pulled out the previous project for. I can't easily find an example online, but it's a series of interlocking crosses (the plus sign kind). Alternating yarns; one white, one a variegated with lots of white in it, which will make the pattern fade in and out impressionistically... I hope. The exact number of blocks isn't determined yet (to some degree it depends on the stitch used).

Entry Number Four: "Time For Me to Fly" is a typical Flying Geese pattern. Originally slated to be in cream, mauve, and sage green, it may instead be pale blue and white. I have yet to decide if it's blue geese on a white background, vice versa, alternating, or with a border. And then there's this intriguing variation, which I found googling for pictures of the other. (Obviously, there are a lot of variables with this idea.)

Entry Number Five: The same pattern I did for the previous knitalong (oh, hush, it's knitted! I didn't promise a sewupathon.) Only this time the different blocks are also different stitch textures.

And that's not even throwing "When I'm 64" into the mix, because I can't decide if that one's going to be just textures or just colors, and if so, what colors (on account of maybe swapping the yarn with the flying geese project.

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