It wasn't that long ago that I thought I would never knit a blanket. Blankets are big, and that means an awkward, time-consuming and probably expensive project. After knitting lots of socks, though, I found that I had a lot of leftover sock yarn, and I decided I needed to make something with it. On Ravelry, I found a pattern for a mitered square blanket knit from sock yarn and like-minded Ravelers willing to trade yarn. I decided my own way to make and attach the squares, however. The pattern attaches the squares in a zig-zag formation as each new square is knit, but I wanted to emphasize the square shapes and also have more control over which squares are adjacent. I knit each 40 stitch square on size 2 needles, using 2 mirrored decreases rather than a double decrease, which makes a raised line diagonally across the square. Getting to pick from all the colors keeps my distracted brain engaged, starting something "new" all the time.

My squares are 2 3/4 inches wide. So far I have knit about 260, so I am 1/4 of the way through the 768 squares I will need. I laid my squares out, and Isabel "helped".

So far I haven't sewn too many of the little squares into bigger squares. I put together some larger squares.