judith capen – Sock Blanket

When Aunt Priscilla’s nephew and niece moved her into assisted living they had to deal with what seemed like a lifetime of intended projects. Thus, some lovely yarn came into my life.
I had learned to knit squares to assemble into blankets for recent immigrant refugees so I began knitting grey squares, each about six inches square. When I knit, I sometimes vary the ‘yarn.’ In this case part of one square was ‘yarn’ cut from an argyle sock.
Assembled, I thought the whole was amazingly seamless. It didn’t seem to work as a shawl so I added squares for a pocket and an escapee and a much-darned sock making it a sock blanket…to toss over the couch on a chilly night or snuggle up with.