I realized I haven’t really updated about working our way through You Will Be Able to Knit by the End of This Book! We started in late February and are down to just a few projects left. We slowed down a little over the summer when I was trying to make the dumpling bag which snagged and turned into a bit of a failure I’m not ready to talk about and Matt has knitted a lap top case and a couple things from a rival book.

We did skip a couple—the door stopper was a slog and the first scarf. Matt didn’t enjoy the angle scarf so I stopped it about a third of the way to go back to it later so we’d be on the same page again.

Now we are on the mitered square blanket. I think it’s going to be lap blanket sized. I’m enjoying the mitered squares but I wish they were a little tinier. They are easy but at 48 stitches cast on, a little too big to knock off one a day or in one sitting unless I really try.

I don’t think I’m doing the SSK perfect. I don’t see the point of slipping if I can just slip the needle easily in the back the first time?? I know they say it’s because the stitches twist but how? I’m inserting the needle the same way in the same angle as I do when I slip it twice.