The Order of the Squares

Now that you have finished your first two squares, you should see that you knit the squares in columns where the next square is done on top of the previous square. You pick up the stitches of one edge and cast on additional stitches for the other edge. The first picture shows you the first three squares of my afghan.

Now you will need to do a column of 8 squares. Every square involves casting on stitches in the first column. This is only true for the first column! It gets easier!





In all the remaining columns, you only need to cast on stitches for the FIRST square. All the rest are done by picking up stitches. This second picture shows you the knitting order of the squares in my afghan. I will give you directions for square #9 in my next post.