Leading by example

When she runs out of BABY babies to knit blankets for, my mom takes requests from the bigger babies in the family. For a recent Christmas, she knit me this gorgeous -- and enormous! -- version of her standard basket-weave baby blanket. It's big enough to use as an extra blanket for my queen-size bed! That's a lot of knitting.

The Warshrag Phase

Last October, Mason-Dixon Knitting took over my brain (as it does with most knitters sooner or later). Of course, I had to start with a warshcloth. In fact, the warshcloth urge was so strong that I negotiated my beloved sidekick into stopping at a craft store with me on our way to visit friends 3 hours away. It took me quite some time to realize how deeply this book had embedded itself in my brain: I honestly thought that I had discovered a creative and interesting color combination. Which was true, except for the "discovered" part, since Ann and Kay put the exact same warshrag in their book. Only they got a better picture of it.