Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 11:37AM FO: Stars and Hearts
I have a To Do list that's thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssss long, so of course I haven't even started. Welcome to my Wednesday! We are preparing for the last wedding of the year, which will require us to get on an airplane and leave Gracie with friends. I need to pack me, pack the G, do a bunch of work, go to the gym, run errands, fix the strap on my Weekender Bag, blah blah blah. While I'm procrastinating, have a look at this blanket.
It's a blanket! For a baby! A baby blanket! Dear Jo Ann commissioned this for a gift for her daughter's teacher, and I happily complied, mostly because I love Jo Ann and I love blankets. But man, did this thing take awhile. I knit steadily for four weeks on it and still had to refer to the charts on the last row.
You would think the charts were easy, as I initially did when I saw the picture in the pattern book. Just some reverse stockinette, right? Oh no, my friends, oh no. The stars and hearts are made of moss stitch, and if that isn't enough to melt your brain, I don't know what is.
It's lovely, though, isn't it? It's Zoe Mellor's Stars and Hearts pattern, knit out of Ella Rae Amity. It's a nice yarn and held up to some repeated ripping and tinking and washed up very nicely. I have two and a half skeins left over, which I think will eventually become a sweater for someone wee. It's good to have those kinds of things on hand. (More Ravelry details here.)
I have one more commissioned project for the year, and then I think I'll be taking some time off. I love knitting for others (even more so when they pay me), but rarely am I able to use stash yarn for those projects. I have knit exactly 9.58% of my stash from when I started counting in 2008 (which is great, considering I, at one time, had knit -20% of the stash, meaning I increased my stash by 20%), and I know I can get that last 10% down by my birthday. I know I can. Even though my birthday is in January.
Reader Comments (2)
It is absolutely darling! Yes, the moss stitch designs would short my knitting brain too. Now...what are you doing still reading? Get back to the list! ;)
Dude, that is super cute!