Block Builder Club 2: Electric Blockaloo

Block Builder Club 2

Hey there friends, followers, and fellow maker-compatriots! We loved bringing the first Block Builder Club 12-month experience to our knitting & community so much, that we’d love to do it again (but with a new spin).  We’re excited to start the next season of BBC, which we’re calling Block Builder Club 2: Electric Blockaloo. (For those over 40, you’re welcome. For those under, Google Breakin’ 2.) This week on Ask Me Monday I fill you in on what to look forward to, and why YOU should join a block of the month club!

Here’s the scoop!

WHEN: 

Beginning Sept 1st, 2022, every month for 12 months, you’ll get an eBooklet with pattern and tutorial info for that month’s block. Start and stop anytime you want, though!

WHAT: 

Our BBC2 knitting theme is: Lace & Texture. The crochet theme is: Eyelets & Angles. For this session, we’ll make a 10″ square each month for a year. At the end have twelve more patterns in your stitch arsenal and a beautiful collection of swatches!

PROJECT: 

Feel like turning your swatches into a wearable history of your stitching year? As the year comes to an end, we’ll show how to seam together and embellish your swatches into a drapy, patchwork wrap!

SUPPLIES: 

We’ll be using Vickie Howell Montoya Merino Light (100% superwash merino; 300 yds/100gr), or any sport-weight yarn from your stash or of your choosing. Depending on the craft and the stitch, you’ll need between 50-75 gr (150- 225 yds) per square. We’ll stock our colors all year long, though, so don’t feel like you have to go all-in at once! This brings us to colors.

We’ve chosen two featured palettes: Neon/Neutral (in colors Leche, Meow Wolf, & Roswell) and Green/Blue (in colors Boulder, Malachite, & UtopiaFest). Along the way, we’ll also be giving subscribers early access to special, speckled/variegated shades of Montoya Merino Light created exclusively to match these palettes.

Neon/Neutral Palette

Blue/Green Palette

For most, if not all of the knit squares, we’ll use Size US 5/3.75 mm needles; for crochet a 7/4.5 mm hook — or size needed to obtain gauge.

WHY: 

Because, knitting and crochet.

Also, though, the YarnYAY! Block Builder Clubs are a great way to learn new stitches and techniques, incorporate a little stitching time into your month, hang out with your fiber community, and thanks to the current patchwork garment craze, walk away with an on-trend wrap. Handmade huzzah!

All this for just $6/month!