I wish I could knit. I’ve tried. Either my fingers or my brain or both just won’t allow me. I will keep trying and maybe one day it will click for me. But both of my step-daughters are amazing knitters! Beanie has taken on a project called a Barn Raising Quilt. According to Beanie you make it by knitting different squares and sewing them together in a patchwork of sorts. The trick is to use sock yarn (nice and thin) that is not a solid color but is variegated (lots of different colors in one skein of yarn). Then when you knit up the squares, they are a gorgeous swirl of color. The other trick is to knit your squares from the center out in a circular pattern (stay tuned for in-progress pictures to show you what I mean) so that the pattern swirls. She just started this project and has several squares completed. We went to her favorite yarn store in Nashville, Haus of Yarn, and she let Cupcake pick out some yarn for a few of the next squares. While we were there I took some photographs for her of the beautiful, colorful yarns. Then the following day I photographed her completed squares. I can’t wait to see her future squares and the finished project!
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