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[camwyn]

Got it into my head the other day that I wanted to try making a mitered square blanket for my actual bed, rather than just an afghan. I tried mitered square knitting years ago when I lived in NJ but did not clue in to the fact that I was supposed to pick up and knit stitches along the edges of existing squares, then cast on the rest of the stitches I'd need, and sort of knit three or four squares with the intention of sewing them together before deciding to declare the project a lost cause.

I've gotten things straight since then and recently bought three skeins of what is billed on the Lion Brand website as Wool-Ease Cakes (80% acrylic, 20% wool, machine washable but lay flat to dry, light worsted/heavyish doubleknit weight) yarn. I had wanted something more variegated than self-striping, but tbh the variegated wool/acrylic blends I looked at were mostly of bulky or sock weight, and those that weren't had the distinct downside of costing way more per yard. So I bought three good-sized cakes with the intention of seeing how the results looked before buying any more. I figured if I got to the end of it and was disappointed there'd probably be an animal shelter that didn't mind having something to let the critters curl up on. (As opposed to donating it to a people organization; if I knitted something and decided it did not look like the first part of a blanket I wanted in my house, it seemed unfair to me to inflict ugly on a person who was already economically unfortunate.) I don't really care that buying another batch of skeins means a different dye lot. It's mitered squares. The colors are supposed to vary from unit to unit.

The yarn arrived with Mandala as the line name rather than Wool-Ease, but it's the same colorways with the same names, so okay, yeah. For some reason they decided to name the colorways after six major Greek deities, plus Tyche. The colorways are here; I went with a cake each of Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. I really have no idea what they were thinking with the colors that got named Hecate. Maybe someone meant to say Hestia instead and named the wrong goddess by mistake?

I'll post a picture when I get my first nine squares done.

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[dogstar]

What rather cracks me up about these is that the Mandala smaller cakes that were previously marketed (it's the same yarn) were all named after random mythical/fairytale/folkloric creatures- I ahve a skein of Gnome sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be wound for osmething.