To celebrate the wedding of my youngest brother, I wanted to make something pretty for their house. Nature inspired colors because they love hiking and being on the water. I had saved a really pretty version of the Vivid blanket and was inspired by the stained glass feel the knitter had gotten. I first tried…
When my eldest niece was born, I wasn’t knitting yet. So she never got a blanket from me as a little one like most of the other kiddos did. When she graduated from High School and her AS degree at the same time, I wanted to knit her something special. This blanket is a color-blocked…
Bought a selection of colors seen in nature and supplemented it with what was left in my baby yarn stash of the same base. Picked hexagons for being from the “Bee” family and game inspired because a lot of board games use hexes too. Most of the hexagons are a unique set of 3 colors….
knit turned hem flat, then joined in the round with helix knitting technique. steeked and made a steek sandwich for the side borders. border uses idea from the book “Crochet Kaleidoscope” motif #15.
Megan’s baby number 4 blanket. Took Vivian Hoxboro’s pattern and used it as the framework but the design was just put together in a spreadsheet and divided into quarters. Squares are 23 st, with a CDD for the spine that is purled on the wrong side. Originally did a 4×5 segment as each quarter and…
Worsted weight on size 7s instead of DK on 6s. Each hexi has a single crochet border in Fairy Tale, and then they are joined with a slip stitch crochet in Lady Slipper. Four hexagons in 7 colors make up the base of the blanket. Only did half hexagons on the short side of the…
inspired heavily by Leslie’s blanket. (udontcallmeles)
Adapting from original pattern to use worsted weight and knit shorter length. k-co 23 stitches for about 3” square blocks. putting totals used for blanket, sweater, and hoodie in this entry for ease of measuring – I didn’t weigh skeins between projects! still need to enter marshmallow, grey, and green tea which are overlapping with…
Gauge swatch on size 8. Went down to size 7 for the blanket. Gauge swatch had several steeks cut into it for testing. Best was when the steek was around 2 single stitches instead of further apart. Used Crochet method to secure stitches, tacked down on the back and did a row of shell stitch…
