making leftovers

I am feeling a bit better this morning. After re-reading that last post it will be good, for all involved,  to get off the cold meds.

The weather forecasters said snow.  No snow here, but wicked wind.  I am beginning to think that the "forecasters" use their fancy computers to play video games and then look out the window and guess at the day's weather. 

Last night I came to an executive decision.   Of my nine skeins of stashed sock yarn, there are three that will not be knit into socks anytime soon, maybe not ever.    I decided that it would be OK to add them to my sock yarn blanket.  Yes, the blanket is suppose to be for leftovers, but it is better the yarn be used than sit on a shelf.  No?

Here is the progress so far. 

It is now 57 inches wide (tall).  I had to stand on a table to get the whole thing in the picture. I am able to add four or five squares a week (more when sick)  and I will soon be finished with the first run  through of the leftover yarn balls.  Because the blanket is now as wide as it needs to be, I will begin knitting squares across rows.  This means that the end squares will have stitches picked up and cast on.  I do not like knitting stitches that have been cast on in the middle of a project.  The first such square will probably be knit several times as I try to figure out a tidy and attractive way to deal with a finished edge.

While I have been knitting the blanket to use as a, blanket, Husband has a different idea.  He thinks it needs to go on the wall.  There is a wall big enough, that happens to be empty. Because how do you fill a wall that big?  HHMM