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knitting update
I've been working on the Secret Baby Blanket for a couple of weeks now; I can't get at it every day, but I think there have been seven days I've worked on it (I've been trying to take pictures to record the progress each time I do more than a row or two, but some days I've taken multiple pictures of the same stage, so I'm not 100% confident) and it's about half done. At this rate it will be finished well before the baby (belonging to Skips R and J) arrives in July, and I'll have time to work out how to make a five-strand braided cord to tie it up with.
The design is based on the Ombre Alpaca Blanket from Last Minute Knitted Gifts, which, granted the blanket is in "more than eight-hour projects", the idea of this as a last-minute thing is laughable. Still, though, I like the pattern -- a modified garter stitch that creates sort of waffle-y pockets on one side -- so I adapted it for baby-blanket purposes. Instead of six shades from brown to bisque, I have five shades from a sort of slightly-redder-than-usual safety orange to cream:
The pictures are not 100% true to color; the colors don't blend anything like gradually, of course, but it's smoother than it appears here -- nothing is quite as bright as this. In particular, the second color from the left is not nearly that pink; more of a salmony shade. (The first color, the round ball, is cotton; the rest are corn. Cornsilk? I don't know what they do to the corn to get the fiber; I know it's not the cornsilk you peel away before you eat corn on the cob, but I don't know if it's corn fiber the way linen is flax fiber, or if they cook various parts of the plant and extrude the living daylights out of it and so on. No idea. Knits up nice and soft, though.)
I think the original pattern calls for casting on 215 stitches; I cast on 121, and had meant to do less but the tail was really long and I didn't want to start again. I think it's a little more than two feet wide. Here are pictures where you can watch the blanket grow:
The design is based on the Ombre Alpaca Blanket from Last Minute Knitted Gifts, which, granted the blanket is in "more than eight-hour projects", the idea of this as a last-minute thing is laughable. Still, though, I like the pattern -- a modified garter stitch that creates sort of waffle-y pockets on one side -- so I adapted it for baby-blanket purposes. Instead of six shades from brown to bisque, I have five shades from a sort of slightly-redder-than-usual safety orange to cream:
The pictures are not 100% true to color; the colors don't blend anything like gradually, of course, but it's smoother than it appears here -- nothing is quite as bright as this. In particular, the second color from the left is not nearly that pink; more of a salmony shade. (The first color, the round ball, is cotton; the rest are corn. Cornsilk? I don't know what they do to the corn to get the fiber; I know it's not the cornsilk you peel away before you eat corn on the cob, but I don't know if it's corn fiber the way linen is flax fiber, or if they cook various parts of the plant and extrude the living daylights out of it and so on. No idea. Knits up nice and soft, though.)
I think the original pattern calls for casting on 215 stitches; I cast on 121, and had meant to do less but the tail was really long and I didn't want to start again. I think it's a little more than two feet wide. Here are pictures where you can watch the blanket grow:
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Completely unrelated, you're curling in the WC this weekend, yes? If so, are you making the trek to/fro the club or are you staying in a hotel near the club? If the former, would you, assuming you end up going to the club on Sunday, be willing to give me a lift from a metro of your choosing? I have no particular times I need to be there so I would be entirely at your mercy (save for Metro's operating hours as well).
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Shall I call you on Saturday night to determine the timing of the ride?
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What yarns did you use in it, again? I'm still increasing my stash!
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