I believe I mentioned before that this is the third time I've made this pattern - green, blue and now orange - one for each of the boy babies of my husband's siblings. It's made in pieces - 21 squares each of two patterns - then each square gets side edgings, the squares get sewn together into strips, the strips into a rectangle, the two end borders (with bobbles) are knitted then sewn on, and the two long side borders are knitted on.
As you may imagine, this makes for more than a few ends to weave in:
This is why this blanket was late. I just couldn't subdue all those ends quickly enough. But it was finally gifted to the deserving little guy last month.
It is a lot of work, but I'll probably make this pattern again. It's great portable knitting while working on the squares, and I think it's a great size for a kid's blanket. They don't stay very little for very long. Toward the end this time around, I was actually thinking of how to convert it into a double knitting pattern. Almost twice the knitting, but all the ends could just hide between the layers. That idea seems to have taken hold, and I think I'll have to follow through with it.
I bought three huge skeins of orange for this project (the cream was all in the stash already) and this is how much I had left at the end:
A very close call, but having made it twice before, I wasn't really worried. Not too much.
Wow, that looks like so much work! I haven't attempted a blanket yet. I fear I'll tire early, and be stuck with a very tiny blanket...
ReplyDeleteWhen I did the first of these blankets I didn't know how much work the pattern was going to be. One of those cases where I was a fairly new knitter and didn't have anyone to tell me that it was supposed to be hard. So I assumed I could do it. Then I was stuck making big blankets for all the nephews and nieces. But I do like making them, and they've all been very appreciated.
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