Updated 2/10 to add FO pix
Sometimes it’s soooooooooo hard to sit on a secret.
Ask more than 100 knitters to sit on a secret and, well, somebody’s sure to spill the beans, right?
NOPE.
With the recent arrival of HappyStasher’s darling twins, now, it can be told.
Secret Square No. 1
It started on a Thursday night in November with this.
A square of garter stitch. Actually, two of them. Executed by the two fastest garter knitters I know, Jane and Bullwinkle. They cast on with the first course, and by the time the guest speaker was finished, so were the base squares. Let’s call them Secret Squares, shall we?
It looks kind of like a tangled mess of needles on the table, no?
Yep.
But there is a method to the madness.
Follow those fingers!
Four skeins of yarn, four circular needles, four knitters and a boatload of good wishes. It makes for a lot of intimacy with your fellow knitters at the beginning, loads of laughs, some occasional tangles, weird kinks in the back, and more fun than a game of
In slow motion ...
Twister! (I think I just dated myself. Oops.)
Okay, slowing it all down … each knitter has one circular needle and only knits the same row ~ but four skeins of yarn (Briar Rose Fourth of July) travel around the square. So instead of the knitters moving, the yarn moves in a spiral around the base square.
Secret Square courtesy Amarula
After a weekend of knitting, each blanket has been touched by roughly one hundred aunties and an uncle, some new knitters, some very wise and experienced, still others Knitting Royalty. A stitch might be twisted here or there, but every stitch carries the love of someone who was wishing our dear HappyStasher well, and missing her at the Knitters Review Retreat.
FO photo courtesy Amarula
The box carrying them arrived at its destination a few days ago.
It’s time she knew the story, and how much she is loved by those who sent her two blue-green woolen baby blankets as our long-distance hugs for her darling bebes.
