(added 8/24/03) So, I've made 2 more squares, and Segnbora sent me two pics of all of the squares she had at the time (7/18). This was prior to my final 2 arriving and she had not yet added C!s to the ones which had arrived without. Also missing are additional squares she has made since. Take a look!

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These are my last 2 squares for the project. I call the first one my taxi square, for obvious reasons. This project made a small dent in my yarn stash, but there's lots more where it all came from so... on to the next project!

I've finally gotten started on my squares!

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Here's my first square, front and back (I haven't woven in the ends yet). I didn't have Chattering_Magpie's chart with me, and my gauge was bigger anyway (30 st x40 r for a 7" square), so I worked out a different chart for a sort of slanted C! and knit this square up on Sunday rather than wait to get my chart from work (6/15). I figured, the more styles the merrier. This one is a variegated wool/acrylic and a grey acrylic, both worsted weight. I decided to run floats along the back because I abominate working with bobbins. I secured the floats by twisting the yarn with the working yarn every 2 stitches and also after the 1st stitch of the other color in each section. Normally, I wouldn't do this as it can show through, but it's not that bad with the variegated. I'm doing the same with my second square, which is showing through a bit, but as it is a heavy worsted paired with a fuzzy mohair/eyelash I'm hoping for the best!

Well, here is square #2. Rich purple acrylic (seed stitch) w/a brown and cream mohair/eyelash blend (stockinette). It was a bit too small because of the floats in the back pulling it together, so I picked up stitches all the way around in the contrast color for a border. It even looks intentional! The floats show a bit in front where the eyelashy bits poke through, but it's not so bad....

#3 is a wool/acrylic blend in my favorite "I don't know what to knit, need something reversible, but don't want to have to think about it" pattern. It also reminds me of the Windows logo, which I thought appropriate. And, I went for a small embroidered C! for a bit of variety.

#4 was a little experiment that took me 3 tries to get an acceptable version. I finished the square sans embroidery twice and ripped it out because the increases were too frequent, and the corners were grossly elongated. It's still a little odd, and I went for simple stockinette so I could pay attention to the increases, so the edges are curling. Worsted weight acrylic in a sort of heather blue that does a faint concentric circle effect when knit in the round as I did here.

#5 and the purple/mohair one are my favorites so far. Another one where I knit the center square first and then did a border (although not the same way), in this case a 3x3 cable. The math just happened to work perfectly for 5 twists centered on each side, and the corners look acceptable, I think! It did turn out a bit small, so I picked up stitches around and added a few rows of seed stitch to get the requisite 7", much as I did for #2.

#6 is a rather bright. Festive, I think. I doubled the DK weight black acrylic so that it would 'pop' more, in order to stand up to the very bright worsted weight cotton/viscose blend.

In #7, I revisited the purple acrylic/mohair blend combination. In fact, this made me realize that I wanted to do two of each color combination. Luckily, I'm already most of the way there.

For #8, I used smaller needles and one of Chattering_Magpie's charts. I really like the way this one came out, even though the cotton shows through the center field of black. It doesn't mess with the contrast, so it was worth not having to work with bobbins.

Here are the last two for this project, no scans of the reverse side this time. The stripey one is made from the same yarn as the first square I made, but the technique for the border is the same as the cabled squares. The cabled one is almost identical to the previous except that, well, I miscounted at one point, and well, was too lazy to fix it. So the whole square is off kilter, evenly off kilter, but off none the less. Also, floating the black behind the piece instead of using bobbins caused the cabled sections to pull in much more tightly, which led to an extremely warped piece. Since the whole piece was then too small, I crocheted around the edge and added some scallops to make up the difference. So a very busy looking square it is indeed!

Now, back to that shawl upon which I was working.