Who was it that posted pictures of a knit patchwork afghan lately?

Well, not me, although I'm doing a similar bedspread in fine ecru cotton yarn. If there are any holes in the joins, the yarn is fine enough that they aren't noticable. The project is near the bottom of my WIP album at the site posted below.

I sew the squares together to form a block of 4 pieces, then sew the blocks together on the diagonal, using mattress stitch. That's the stitch where you pick up a thread from each side of the seam, working from the right side. So the first row consisted of the block in one of the corners. The next row is 2 blocks, then 3 blocks, etc. xxxx xxx xx x

I probably have about 400 squares to go.

dora

Mine was only 48 squares. But each square has 9 leaves on.

It is a nice travel pattern; compact and easy enough to do without paying attention.

Thanks for the advice,

Tara

Yes, I work on that project when I'm travelling as well. It doesn't give me an excuse to get cranky. I suspect the edging is going to be a different matter, but that's probably a couple of years away. I have 10 or so squares which I should sew together before I lose them. I found one at the bottom of my purse the other day.

I would like to add that as I'm sewing, I'll take an extra stitch to pull the blocks together nice and tight in the corners, but even so there is a tiny gap. Dora

Thanks Dora.

I guess I was just wondering if you were joining them using anything different (like a crochet chain).

I stitched two "4piece" squares together last night, and they came out much better. The difference, I used the end thread, and stitched tip to tip. The last time I had used the join thread and worked from the middle out. It's livable now; before I could put my big toe through the gap.

Thanks again for your insight, it's looking good.

Tara

The first time I did it, the stitches were pretty closed up, but pulled other areas which created the holes. Somehow, by changing the starting point of the joining has changed the tension on the join making it less obvious.

It's a great pattern, pretty mindless once you get the second set of leaves started. Yet it looks so complicated to those that don't knit. Most folks couldn't believe how much I wasn't looking at the knitting itself, let alone the pattern.

It's called cascading leaves and it's free pattern at

Tara