Science Experiment

I spent the weekend attempting to give order to my massive yarn collection (more on this and what I found later.)  Of course, the main thing I found was that I have a lot of yarn that I can’t really imagine using.  That isn’t to say that I can’t imagine needing this yarn for something, but just looking at it isn’t an inspirational activity.  My husband thought it looked warm and fuzzy all laid out on the floor.  To me it looked like waist deep mud that I would have to wade through for some kind of craft basic training.  It’s back in tubs now, labeled into general categories: “acrylic worsted” and “natural worsted,” for example.  

I also found some “science experiment” knitting poking around, little swatches and tests.  One that’s been around for a year is the answer to the question “What if I made this bigger?”

I thought I was going to make a thread bedspread at some point, which, still might happen in my lifetime.  Of course, the pattern I chose was time consuming and thread consuming, and even popped up as the subject of some justified mockery on a well known knitting blog.   

Here's a block

I would need to make a gazillion, and I’ve made around 10.  Also, I can only imagine that this bedspread, once completed, would probably weigh so much that people laying beneath it could not move.  

At some point, I wanted to see what would happen if this fiddly little square was done in worsted? 

Again, the result eats up a lot of yarn, the brown part used almost a whole skein, but I love the effect.  Looking at all my acrylic worsted weight yarn, I’ve been thinking, I should finish this project. It seems like a great way to get rid of yarn and end up with a lacy extravagant blanket.  I was thinking maybe 9 squares, maybe 12.  I’m going to shoot for one a month and see where that gets me.   Though I just realized I have no idea what size hook I used for the big one.  Hmm.