Oh baby
Monday, June 5th, 2006The Prairie Blanket is finished, though it still needs an end woven in and washed.
Yarn: Lion Brand Pound o’ Love
Pattern: Prairie Blanket from Oat Couture
Needles: US size 9
See that little ball in the middle? That’s not a pompom, that’s how much yarn I had left. I used a small diet scale to weigh the yarn left in the skein and when I got close to it being half the weight, I started the decreases. Towards the top right corner, you can see a loop of yarn that I need to weave in due to a knot in the yarn that just had to show up before it was finished.
Saturday was fun mail day. From Donna, I got 2 baby pattern books, 3 skeins of baby yarn, and the Australian Creative Knitting.
I’ve already got the patterns picked out for the yarns, and several more that I’ll probably have to buy yarn for. In addition to those books, I’d picked up two more last week. One is a Leisure Arts book that I can’t link to because the site is being a pain in the ass. The other is Cozy Knits for Cuddly Babies. (Gotta love those 40% off coupons for JoAnn and Hobby Lobby.) I like Cozy Knits because all the items are made using Cascade yarns. I think I have about 15 projects picked out from all these books. Probably more. Not to mention, I have a Baby Surprise Jacket on the needles.
I’m adding length to the sleeves on this one. This is up to row 40 but I’m a bit farther than that now. Perhaps another day I’ll show pictures of doing it the way it’s written versus adding sleeve length.
Last but not least, I took the plunge and snipped the yarn from the first Poinsettia square. I’m not having near as much reserve about this one. The first one I could barely get through a couple of rows a day but this one I got over half of it done in one day.
