Olympic afghan: only two squares to go!

21 August 2008

I powered through four squares of my Learn-to-Knit Afghan last weekend, in my quest to finish it before the end of the Olympics. I was aided immensely by the fact that I had two discs (six episodes) of Season Five of The Wire to keep my company. Oh, and the actual Olympics, on TV.

Sunday night, I got two-thirds of the way through Square 61: Parquet Squares, when I realized that for some reason it was going to be way too big. All 63 squares in the afghan should be roughly the same size (in the case of my afghan, 8 × 8) and I don’t know this square ended up 9 × 9, but that’s what happened. So I had to tear the whole thing out and start over.

I was out of town for two days working with a client so I wasn’t able to get back to the project until I got home (I was too tired in the hotel room to knit), but I finished Square 61 last night.

That leaves the final two squares, each worked in the round (one on circular needles, one on double-pointed needles). Then I’ll be finished knitting and facing the task of arranging the squares and seaming them together. I look forward to the day in the not-too-distant future when I’ll post a photo of the completed afghan.

In the meantime, here are the five squares I completed since I last posted about the afghan, last Friday. If you’re interested, you can see photos of Squares 51 to 53 and Squares 54 to 56. Those six are all lace squares, while today’s photos are from the section of the book called “Special Techniques.”