Blocks for Charity Afghan

Over on PaperBackSwap, someone is organizing an afghan for charity, so I decided to try my hand at knitting a block or two. I thought I'd try mixing two colors from my yarn stash and create something a little more than just one-dimensional color.

Well, that didn't work out so well. It looks neat, but it's not the right size. The blocks are supposed to be 7" x 9". Since I was using two strands of yarn, I didn't get a good feel for how many stitches I needed to cast on. So it turned out to be longer than I had planned (I meant that size to be the 7" side). When I measured it before, it was 10" but just now measuring it, it's actually 9" - wow!

That would be well and good except for one thing. I ran out of yarn before I could finish. So it's only 5" on the other side. *sigh* I'll go ahead and send it in case there are any other oddly sized blocks and it actually could get used. Here's the picture (a zig-zag design):



So I tried again. This time I went ahead with the one-color yarn. I used the yarn from Mary's scarf (I still had two balls). I used the same pattern and got the measurements much better (although I did block it to get even more exact). But it's not perfect. It's a little less than 9" on one side and a little more less than 7" on the other. *sigh*



I might try another block with another pattern, but I'm going to go ahead and send these two off tomorrow.