Blocks
Completed: December, 2003
Mission Falls / 1824 Wool
100% Merino superwash / Colors: Nos. 11, 13, 26, 27, 28, 30 [1 skein each]
Needles: 6
Various stitches

I made these for a fundraising silent auction we hold as part of our annual Holiday Food & Toy Drive at work. Staff-made items--including submissions from Getty knitters--are offered to the highest bidders at our holiday party, and all the proceeds are donated to our Drive charities. While I'd participated in past auctions, this was my first knitted submission.

I had been making swatches of different texture patterns as an exercise, to practice both my knitting/purling, as well as to hone my skills at following patterns and keeping track of rows. I was left with these nice sample swatches of all of these different textures for future reference. The baby blocks were just an extension of these exercises--make six swatches and stitch them together around a foam block--and seemed the perfect pattern for me to try out for my auction submission.

These took much longer than anticipated to stitch together--about 45-60 minutes each!--but they turned out OK and raised some much-needed money for a local battered women's shelter.

Each block is about 3 inches squared.