I'm really not sure what possessed me to knit a baby blanket. A some point I got thinking about all the knitting my Gramma Fearnley did and how so much of that knitting was baby things. This certainly wasn't out of a quantity of babies in my family! They are pretty few and far between really. So many women of her generation knit baby things compulsively it seems. I can see the attraction of those small, portable projects, you only have to look at my socks to see that. Also, often vintage style baby things are lace knitters Mecca, so much details in such a small space.
So I ended up picking up some cream coloured yarn. Apparently the yarn fumes got to me and it's not wool. Not sure how that happened?! Then I landed on the Heirloom Baby Blanket (rav link), a pattern by the Craft Council of America.
What attracted me was that the blanket is knit is strips. Sounds good huh? Small portable just became even more portable. It never occurred to me that all those strips needed to be knit together. Then the lace edge, knit separately, then sewn on. Yup, that's about 4 billion miles of seaming. So, the blanket sure wasn't done for the fall fair 2009, maybe I'll still have it around for 2010 because I don't see any bellies developing in my immediate vicinity.
Check out this pic though.... that's me working on the blanket last summer!
3 comments:
hey bea! how's by you?
i'm no longer on the facebook and that was my only avenue for keeping in touch so i had to google you.
hope all is well. emailed chat noir last week to say hi and ask for contact info but no reply =[
i reckon you're up and at em these days. certainly hope so, at any rate.
take care,
pete
(nice sockery, btw!)
Pete... you didn't leave contact info. I hope you clicked... email follow up comments!
Woohoo! Canada won! Gold medal hockey games are too much for Mum's nerves so I watched it w Pops. A rollicking time.
You take in much of the Olympics? I was even watching the curling! Kevin Martin's pate was our secret weapon - nice and shiny and distracting. Too much mojo for the Norwegians and their trousers, which I quite liked, actually, though I know I could never pull off argyle. It's important to know one's limits, unless one has no shame. I'm not there yet, but am working on it!
Sorry about the comment and run!
My public email addy's paldgate@gmail.com.
Hit me w it and I'll send you my extra secret email address, known only to the "inner circle". Actually, it'd be nice if you could send an email to my extra secret address - it's inbox is always empty. (I really have to increase the membership of my "inner circle" - it's more of a lozenge than a circle, and I want a circle).
Lata!
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