When I was a child, there were Tinker Toys, wooden building blocks, and erector sets for the older kids. Plastic blocks weren’t common, and certainly nothing with magnets. Fast forward to when my kids were little. Lego blocks were just becoming a thing. Toys moved on with Playmobile and other brands featuring houses, trains, building sets, and other “ideas” for “creative play.”
But when I see blocks with bumps for interlocking – I think of Lego’s. The cross stitch pattern I found just refers to them as “blocks.” That makes perfect sense as no purveyor of cross stitch patterns has the time or money to deal with a potential copyright infringement suit
Anyway – I have only abour 600 stitches to go – just filling in all the knobs.
It might be evil, but this will be a present for a fellow knitter. She has been industriously knitting a baby blanket comprised of blocks….only instead of purl textures, each and everyone of those knobs is a bobble. (If you aren’t familiar, bobbles are an insane amount of effort for each and everyone. Now expand that thought to a lap-sized blanket covered with them…) I should have this finished in the next couple of days and will just do a simple hoop finish.
Devilish good fun I would say!
Blocks then, and stitching now….