I took pictures and did the whole thing for the resurrection challenge much earlier in the month but I'm just getting around to blogging about it now. It has been a crazy month. I have been trying to play catch up with school and still am. But I had to get this in before the end of the month.
My UFO this month was the second thing I have tried to knit. It was a baby blanket. All I had knit before this was a garter stich scarf. :) I didn't even know how to purl yet. A friend of mine was pregnant with a little girl and I thought it would be fun to knit it something. I figured a blanket was just a big retangular scarf so it should be no problem. It was from the book Knit Baby Blankets! Edited by Gwen Steege. I really like this book. I chose one I liked and thought shouldn't be too hard. It had a lot of things I'd never done but I was brave. I picked the Patchwork Blankie. It is knit on size 4 needles (I'd never used anything other than 10.5's). It is knit with fingering weight yarn (I'd only use handspun). It would required purling all the way back across (I had only learned knit stich). It was done with carrying yarn of multiple colors with strange things called bobbins (I had no idea at the time what those were so I figured little plastic bags would work. I used Knitpicks yarn and was very excited. I only got this far. :)
The first row!! :) I then decided this was a bit much for me but it away in a drawer and started in on the basketweave blanket. I am very glad I did the basketweave blanket since it taught me to knit and purl but it was huge and took forever and the beginning is terribly awful. It was very uneven. By the end though I had a consistent guage and still do to this day. My friend said she loved it and was very gracious. She know knits and who knows if she still had the blanket or what she thinks of when she sees it. :) If you look back through my archives I am sure you can find a picture of it.
So I decided that I would most likely not finish this baby blanket so it went to the frog pond and I recovered five balls of yarn and my needles and all sorts of good stuff. :)
And that is the end of the Patchwork Blankie! In my next post....probably later today....you will get to see my finished January project from the UFO Resurrection Challenge. That's right I finished the Hip Hop Jacket!!!!
My UFO this month was the second thing I have tried to knit. It was a baby blanket. All I had knit before this was a garter stich scarf. :) I didn't even know how to purl yet. A friend of mine was pregnant with a little girl and I thought it would be fun to knit it something. I figured a blanket was just a big retangular scarf so it should be no problem. It was from the book Knit Baby Blankets! Edited by Gwen Steege. I really like this book. I chose one I liked and thought shouldn't be too hard. It had a lot of things I'd never done but I was brave. I picked the Patchwork Blankie. It is knit on size 4 needles (I'd never used anything other than 10.5's). It is knit with fingering weight yarn (I'd only use handspun). It would required purling all the way back across (I had only learned knit stich). It was done with carrying yarn of multiple colors with strange things called bobbins (I had no idea at the time what those were so I figured little plastic bags would work. I used Knitpicks yarn and was very excited. I only got this far. :)
The first row!! :) I then decided this was a bit much for me but it away in a drawer and started in on the basketweave blanket. I am very glad I did the basketweave blanket since it taught me to knit and purl but it was huge and took forever and the beginning is terribly awful. It was very uneven. By the end though I had a consistent guage and still do to this day. My friend said she loved it and was very gracious. She know knits and who knows if she still had the blanket or what she thinks of when she sees it. :) If you look back through my archives I am sure you can find a picture of it.
So I decided that I would most likely not finish this baby blanket so it went to the frog pond and I recovered five balls of yarn and my needles and all sorts of good stuff. :)
And that is the end of the Patchwork Blankie! In my next post....probably later today....you will get to see my finished January project from the UFO Resurrection Challenge. That's right I finished the Hip Hop Jacket!!!!
