The Tetris Afghan, Part 1

As far as I know, I'm the first person to knit Tetris. I got the idea one day when looking through a knitting book and one of the patterns reminded me of Tetris blocks. I'm making up my own pattern instead of using that one (it was a one-color piece of fabric with some raised stitches, not like mine at all).

Each small square is knitted using a stitch I call the "knotty stitch"; I've never heard a real name for it. I posted a tutorial on Craftster.org if you're interested, go here to see it.

I then crocheted (my first crochet experience, woot!) a single-crochet border around each square, and joined the squares into Tetris blocks with slip stitches.


Here's two of the finished blocks:



























Here's the first 3 slip-stitched together:






(my feet shown for scale, hehe)











It's not blocked at all, hence the general wigglyness.

More pictures to come as I work!

 
 
 
 

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Unknown said...

WOW!! It's already really awesome, I cannot WAIT to see a full on Tetris blanket. You ROCK

April 28, 2007 at 1:24 AM

Ilix said...

Looks like it will be fantastic! i am pretty sure that I have seen another
Tetris blanket though.......somewhere. Keep going, can't wait to see this one done! ;)

April 28, 2007 at 11:51 PM

Knitting Up A Storm said...

Yay for knitted afghans!!!!!

p.s- and yay for knitting in nature! I love knitting by forests and such, with the birds chirping & the leaves rustling. It's so relaxing!

June 25, 2007 at 5:59 PM

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