Posted by: springviolet

As knitters I think we’re a little obsessed to begin with.  But introduce a little Blankie in their lives and all hell breaks loose.

The concept behind The Blankie has been around probably as long as knitting.  Use scrap yarn to slowly, square by square, make a blanket.  It was The Heathen Housewife that took that idea a crazy step further and, back in 2006, blogged about it for all the knitting world to see. Why not make a mitered square blanket with sock yarn?  Since then I’m convinced the Sock Yarn Blankie has taken over a sizeable portion of the internet. 

I was first introduced to The Blankie by two members of our Tuesday night soiree, Jenn and Krista.  They would sit next to one another on the sofa at the back of the coffee shop, quietly knitting their blankets.  They would discuss yarn swaps and trades they had joined in order to increase their stashes of sock yarn.  When trades would come in they’d bring baggies of colorful yarn on Tuesday for one another to squish and squee over. As each week went by, the two blankets got a little bigger, the colors more hypnotic.  

In the end, it was the bags of mini-skeins of yarn that captured me.  They’re just so little, colorful and awesome!

Here’s a photo of my Blankie in progress. Whenever I knit in public (often) I get compliments. The latest was “something so beautiful should be worn and not be a blanket!” I love it, love it, love it.

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Since I started knitting a Blankie, I think most of our knitting group has started one of thier own. And each and every one of us will happily enable more into The Blankie fold.

Yeah, we’re a cult – and it’s awesome.

In honor of The Blankie, our knitting group, The Third Street Ravelers, is holding a Knit in Public Day. Anyone participating doesn’t have to have a Blankie with them, however it’s likely one will be on their Ravelry queue the following day.