Greek Key Placemats on Ravelry

I've just uploaded the placemat pattern to Ravelry.  It's free!  All you have to do is press this button  to get it.  Enjoy!

Greek Key Placemats Woven

At least one finally is so I can take a picture of it and post.  I'm still working on the written pattern part to post on Ravelry.  I'm getting there.  Even though I tried to weave loosely, I still feel the work pulled in a bit.  The tension in weaving is definitely different from the tension in knitting.  I used one long strand back and forth and wove the ends in at the back of the mat.  An alternative would be to use individual strands for each "woven row" and leave the ends longer then tie them to each other to create a fringe.  My family voted on no fringe, so here it is...

close up.

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.