24 colorful squares

I've been knitting away since March and I finally finished the 24 squares for the Lizard Ridge afghan a few weeks ago. That seemed like the hard part, but they knit up fairly quickly and were very satisfying to work on. Step two was to clear off the dining room table and lay them all out so that I could decide how to arrange all the squares.


You'll notice that the squares still have their egg crate like bumps - there is a reason for that. Todd was very excited about this pattern, especially the bumpy texture and was supremely disappointed when I told him that they were supposed to be blocked flat. So as a concession to someone who has been very supportive of my time expensive and obsessive hobby I'm leaving the bumps in.

Step 3, sewing them all together has taken longer than hoped for. I'd been carrying around three of the squares and a book on finishing techniques in the hopes of getting some free time to develop a good technique for nice flat seams but hadn't gotten around to it until last night. Unfortunately I didn't quite line them up right so I had to take out the one seam I'd finally managed to do. Sort of makes me wish I'd done the continuous, one color version. Maybe one of these days I will. One of the great things about doing the squares in as many colors as I could get my hands on is that now I know what all the balls look like all knitted up. In fact I discovered that despite the lots of different colors approach I'd ended up with 5 squares of the same color. I seem to have played favorites. I think if I made another Lizard Ridge afghan I know what color I'd use.

The colors I used were: 134, 147, 148, 154 (2), 159, 163, 166, 170 (3), 178, 180 (3), 183, 185.