Thursday, March 20, 2014

Greek Key Placemats

We're back from March Break.  It was a wonderful week at my mother-in-law's in Quebec.  It's been very difficult to get back into the old routine since this week has been anything but routine.  Things have been going a little nuts, thus making it difficult to get a blog post out or update my projects on Ravelry.

I am finally going to finish one of my UFOs.  I started this back in 1996 inspired by a technique article called "Dropped-Stitch Weaving" in the Spring/Summer 1996 issue of Vogue Knitting - SCARY.  I have UFOs that old; predating the birth of my children.  I got bored with it because it was so simple and not really challenging, so I put it aside.  Now, I look for that mindless, easy knitting to fill small gaps of time where I wish to be more productive and clear the horrendously large stash in my closet.

I will eventually post the project with free instructions to download on Ravelry.  I'm getting there.  I pressed the mats a couple of days ago.  Now, I just have to do the weaving; which could take quite long.  The photo below is of small sample I worked on.



6 comments:

Lupie said...

I have a few projects that have been sitting around for years to be finished and you have inspired me to get back to them.

Fran said...

Thanks, Lupie!

bunnits said...

Oh, very nice. I really should knit more. I am a spinner, so I often have a ready supply of yarn. Unfortunately, most of the time, there are small quantities (100 yards or less) that aren't enough for big projects, so I went back to weaving small items and free-style projects in order to be able to use the small amounts of yarn.

Fran said...

That sounds like a lot of fun. It's great that you can customize you own yarn, too!

Maven said...

Makes me think of the clapotis! Pretty work!

Fran said...

Thank you, Maven!