A Woman Possessed

I’ve been knitting compulsively lately. Not that I feel that any area of my life is out of control or anything or that knitting is something I can completely own and control. . .

No. . .nothing like that. . .

Anyway, I’ve been possessed by the mitered square! It started innocently enough. For “fun” on Saturday afternoon, while laying next to the pool in the sun, I was paging through the book “Mason Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters Guide: Stories, Patterns, Advice, Opinions, Questions, Answers, Jokes and Pictures” by Ann Shayne and Kay
Gardiner.

I saw a picture of a Mitered Square Blanket. The colors were kind of loud for my taste until I remembered that I had a ball of yarn in earthy tones that might make some squares I liked a little more. The authors warned that knitting mitered squares was addictive but I laughed in the face of that warning and proceeded with caution thrown to the wind.

Two hours later I was addicted. Two days later I have four squares done and a fifth on the needles. I. Can’t. Stop.

Five squares down. Seventy-five to go! Mitered squares. This knitter’s crack.