In reality I have 2 and a half little squares, but many more in my imagination.
I recently came across this organisation (http://www.knit-a-square.com/index.html) which asks knitters to provide 8 inch squares for charity. A dedicated team of local people sew up the squares into blankets of varying sizes which can then be distributed to children in need in Southern Africa. The group are clearly very well organised and in dire need of more squares in order to help them meet their ambitious aim of 105,000 squares in 2010.
With my aim of stash reduction in mind I spent a happy few hours this weekend knitting 8″ squares with some left over Rowan wool cotton, leftovers from several baby blanket projects that I couldn’t bring myself to throw away.
I was particularly pleased with the stripey one – it was ideal for using up some tiny (5-10g) balls. Just 44 stitches on 4mm needles and knit until each colour ran out. I have been a little under the weather this week and working on a few of these squares was just the thing I needed. I have some Rowan Wool dk as well which I think I can put to good use.
I originally heard about the charity via a thread on the Phoenix knitting forum (http://www.knittingforums.org.uk/charities/topic6102.html) started by Lu86. Apologies by the way but I haven’t figured out how to do hypertext links and it keeps crashing my browser. One thing led to another and before long we had decided to run a little KAL/CAL to see how many squares we can make for the project over the summer.
According to the website 12 squares makes a baby blanket and 35 makes a full sized one and it would be great to send enough to make a Phoenix blanket.
Watch this space…
