Plush blanket seaming

Started seaming the Plush squares last night. Actually, it's easier than I expected, but it's raised new issues (see 2nd and 3rd photos).

So, what are those circ needles doing in a piece being seamed, hum? Well, I went to pick the last seam stitch out of the purple and it ran away from me. Oops. Must have dropped a stitch during one of the last K2tog. This yarn is a pain to rip. Got into that weird knitter's zone, hunched over my work, totally oblivious to the world, trying to SEE THE FRICKIN' YARN! That oh-so-soft yarn that seemed perfect just a few minutes before was now my mortal enemy. My contacts were drying out, sticking and clouding my vision and I really needed to pee, but did I leave the battle, hell no. I was determined to undo the final knot and all the stuck together K2togs and rip down until I could load a good row onto the needles before I moved, bodily needs be damned. It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've gotten into this war mode. And yes, my internal dialog starts to sound like Patton every time.

Here's the back side:

Those prominent joins are not my stitching, but rather where I started a new color on the square. The tails were woven in if not left long for seaming. I'm a little worried about how well this is going to wear since the silky yarn doesn't felt into place like wool. Thinking about backing it with satin or flannel and making a quiltlet out of this. Don't want to make it too stiff, but otherwise, I don't think it will last long around here. Any thoughts? Has anyone done something similar. I will probably run my swatch through the sewing machine to see how it does after I get this all sewn up.

Comments

[Christina]

It looks great. I love your color choices.

[Risa]

It is coming together nicely. I can commiserate with the commando mode. I've skipped most bodily functions in the name of knitting, especially when I had to frog the bind-off of my icelandic shawl when I found halfway through that I was not going to have enough yarn. Grrr.

Anyway, a flannel back on this would be so wonderfully touchable, your little girl couldn't help but love it. Great idea. I have never done this personally, my attention span doesn't allow for projects large enough to be a blanket, but memory serves that my mother backed one of those granny square afghans that the 70's were all about. I seem to remember it holding up very nicely.