Afghan Accountability
Jun. 13th, 2026 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickThere are 10 squares remaining. It's progress.
There are 5 all-brown squares (and all of the all-brown yarn) left to do. I am going to have to make a fair amount of all-brown yarn to complete this afghan.
There are 2 "mostly white" squares left to do. I have some yarn for more-than-half a white square and the white part of the "mostly white" yarn for the rest of the square and the other one needed spun, working on the brown single to ply with it. I might get that done later this evening, we'll see.
There are 3 "mostly brown" squares left to do and there's some yarn for that, probably enough for one square and part of another. Gonna have to spin up some yarn for the finish. I've cast on another "mostly brown" square so that'll be the next one done, then it'll be two "mostly white" and then finishing out the "mostly brown" and finally at the end finishing out the brown. This is because the "brown" needs three plies of brown and I need to get rid of the white on the bobbins.
In other, not super-exciting news, there has been seaming. I mentioned that I had made a seaming decision and that I liked it. I still like it. It makes a raised, slightly stiffer edge at the seams and I am choosing to consider this an intentional design feature because the added structure keeps the afghan in better shape and prevents the squares from being pulled out of square. I tried some other seam options en route to deciding on this one and I did not like them as well. Raised edge seam is what I'm doing. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Anyway, here's the seaming plan:
First, 3 squares are sewn together to make a 3-square-strip. Right now, I have 8 out of 14 done, with ends woven in, and further progress is on hold until I get some brown squares made. (The base square against which all other squares are measured is brown and cannot be washed/blocked until I'm done with the knitting, so no more strip sub-assemblies can be completed until I make some damn brown yarn and knit some brown squares.) This is annoying.
Next, 3 of the strips get sewn into blocks-of-9. I need 4 total 9-blocks. One is completed, with ends woven in. I have enough strips to do another but I'm waiting to see how variable the "new brown" squares are compared to the "original brown" squares -- I might need to spread out the "new brown" so that it's less obvious that they are "new brown" and if I had considered this fully, I would not have a done 9-block at all. But, y'know, it's a seat of the pants affair over here and proper prior planning is for other people anyway.
Then 9-blocks get sewn together for 6x3 strips. I'll have 2 6x3 strips, but I'm not there yet.
Two 6x3 strips each get a strip-of-three added so that they're 7x3's.
And then the 7x3's get joined together and I'll have an afghan.
There are 5 all-brown squares (and all of the all-brown yarn) left to do. I am going to have to make a fair amount of all-brown yarn to complete this afghan.
There are 2 "mostly white" squares left to do. I have some yarn for more-than-half a white square and the white part of the "mostly white" yarn for the rest of the square and the other one needed spun, working on the brown single to ply with it. I might get that done later this evening, we'll see.
There are 3 "mostly brown" squares left to do and there's some yarn for that, probably enough for one square and part of another. Gonna have to spin up some yarn for the finish. I've cast on another "mostly brown" square so that'll be the next one done, then it'll be two "mostly white" and then finishing out the "mostly brown" and finally at the end finishing out the brown. This is because the "brown" needs three plies of brown and I need to get rid of the white on the bobbins.
In other, not super-exciting news, there has been seaming. I mentioned that I had made a seaming decision and that I liked it. I still like it. It makes a raised, slightly stiffer edge at the seams and I am choosing to consider this an intentional design feature because the added structure keeps the afghan in better shape and prevents the squares from being pulled out of square. I tried some other seam options en route to deciding on this one and I did not like them as well. Raised edge seam is what I'm doing. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Anyway, here's the seaming plan:
First, 3 squares are sewn together to make a 3-square-strip. Right now, I have 8 out of 14 done, with ends woven in, and further progress is on hold until I get some brown squares made. (The base square against which all other squares are measured is brown and cannot be washed/blocked until I'm done with the knitting, so no more strip sub-assemblies can be completed until I make some damn brown yarn and knit some brown squares.) This is annoying.
Next, 3 of the strips get sewn into blocks-of-9. I need 4 total 9-blocks. One is completed, with ends woven in. I have enough strips to do another but I'm waiting to see how variable the "new brown" squares are compared to the "original brown" squares -- I might need to spread out the "new brown" so that it's less obvious that they are "new brown" and if I had considered this fully, I would not have a done 9-block at all. But, y'know, it's a seat of the pants affair over here and proper prior planning is for other people anyway.
Then 9-blocks get sewn together for 6x3 strips. I'll have 2 6x3 strips, but I'm not there yet.
Two 6x3 strips each get a strip-of-three added so that they're 7x3's.
And then the 7x3's get joined together and I'll have an afghan.
