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….
January 19, 2021 2 sets of yarn balls through (4 skeins, held double.) Ordered additional yarn to make it wider. January 23, 2021 Another set of skeins (6 skeins total) finished during ZKN January Chill weekend. February 10, 2021 Joined the last two skeins in the last half repeat of the pattern and then for…
spun for this and pom poms that match. Second picture was taken by Beth (MDQuilter)
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…
took the idea of Sister Janie, expanded the width of the motif, and then stretched the space between increase/decrease rows out. Like a waterfall!
adapted to add a seed stitch button panel to the Barley pattern. bought the buttons at OFFF with the hope to make this hat and then found the yarn on destash 🙂
