So this blog has been ignored for quite some time. Part of the problem is that I really haven't been knitting that much this summer. The only knitting that I have really done this summer is dish towels for my brother and now a bath mat from Mason Dixon knitting for Brigid-Ann. Brigid-Ann's new home proved somewhat of a difficult knitting challenge for me. She and Matt don't use cloth towels because they prefers paper towels. They have a formal dinning area so knitted place mats didn't seem like a good idea. I chose the bath mat because I have had the yarn and the needles to make this thing forever and I finally had what seemed like the perfect person for it. The reason I was pulled to this specific bath mat is that it uses a log cabin technique where you bind off stitches and then pick new ones up on the other side. This is a take on a quilting technique of the same name. I had some issues with figuring out how many stitches to pick up on each side and I had to frog quite a bit of it. Take a look at the picture - very fun and very easy (once you figure out the picking up thing). You can see I start with a center block and then the strips get added as you go. This is why none of the strips are the same size.
