Squares squares squares . . . .

One day I went crazy and spent hours going from Blog to Blog looking for ideas for something to knit but also for ideas for my own Blog-in-Planning , well I came across a beautiful brightly coloured blanket http://cauchycomplete.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/scrappy-knitting/

Always looking for something to use up bits and bobs of wool I followed the links "completely cauchy" had posted to find the instructions ......

I found it a little hard to understand at first , until I realised that although she had told us to use a gauge of 15 stitches the instructions were actually for 31 stitches cast on (yes I felt like a complete div when I worked that one out )

Here are my version of the instructions ....

Pic1: Cast on 31 stitches and plain knit until the last stitch
 where you knit into the back of the loop
(this makes a tidier edge)

Pic2:Next row : slip the first stitch , knit 13 , then slip two
stitches, knit a stitch , then cast off the two slipped stitches over
this knitted stitch, knit to the last stitch and knit that one
 into the back of the loop

Pic3: Continue like this ... every row start by
 slipping the first stitch and every row knit the last
stitch in the back of the loop ....

First row is plain knit , second row is a double decrease as described , third row a plain knit row again , next row you knit 12 stitches before you slip the two stitches , fourth row plain knit , fifth you knit 11 stitches before the two slipped .... and so on until you have three stitches left and cast off completely

My plan is too knit lots and lots of squares in all sorts of colours and then afterwards arrange them and sew them together .... I'll keep you posted