Rainbow Stitches of Time

When the rains come, I always hope for rainbows to show in the sky.  With my knitting I try to bring them out in the colors I choose sometimes.  This year has brought all kinds of weather situations and even an earthquake to the area that I live.  I finished one blanket and came into this year with it done.  In the way I knitted it, I tried to catch the fall season with it.  The colors that I chose were the colors of autumn.  The blanket is 7ft by 7ft.  It took two years to make.  It was that blanket that has taken me into the world of knitting.  I spent days and weeks picking out the colors and than taking the time to do the knitting.

Autumn Sky  7' x 7'

As I look at the pictures I took of that blanket, I couldn't help but to remember what I have experienced while I worked on that blanket.  In it is the time I spent on it.  Irene is coming and the blankets that I have started now will reflect on what I experienced now.  Each blanket that I work on has it's own color meaning.  The ones that I work on now are the ones with the 7" x 7" squares.  This year has brought life in small squares and requiring to be assembled.  Like the weather, they demand my time.  The year is half way through and one blanket of this year's type is requiring to be assembled.  It is the last part in the process of the making of my blankets that are of this year's version. 

With the construction of the blankets I am presently working on, I looked for interesting ways to put them together.  I like the idea of the size 7' x 7'.  The number 7 is often considered lucky.  I like the idea that a 7" x 7" will make a 7' x 7' blanket.  It is fun to bring the play of numbers to my knitting.  The colors were chosen in multiples of 6, such as 2,3,6, or 12.  The amount of squares is 144 squares and it all ends up with a 7' x 7' blanket.  The fun is using the idea of numbers with color and measurement.  With the color I used the number 6 and with the measurement I used the number 7.  Each square is made one day at a time.  The time it takes to make each blanket is 144 days.  Sometimes I make more squares in a given day. As I move into the final construction stage with my blankets, I will see how long that will take.