On It's Way Again

The blanket made it's way to the post office this morning so it should be heading east to Ren, the next knitter. Newlywed life isn't any less busy than pre-wedding life, I'm not entirely sure why I expected that it would be, but I apologize for the amount of time the blanket spent with me. Figuring out how to work with what was already there was a little trickier than I expected. The blanket is awesome folks, but I couldn't get it to fit in a photo, even on my giant couch, so here's the best that I could do:



I had to squinch up the top square, with it's stripes and bobbles, it's somewhere between 2 and 3 times as long as it looks.


My square:



Was knit with Debbie Bliss Rialto, 100% superwash merino on size 6 clover circular needles. I decided to make it mirror itself so I reversed the cables in the middle of the blue stripe, after leaving out what would have been a crossing. It is squidgey and soft.

Sent!

I sent the blanket off to Penny today, and even managed to get a picture of Jodie (our fab organizer) posing with it at knitting last night:


I can't wait to see what it's going to become!

Sent!

The beginning of the blanket has been sent! Along with some goodies of course. I didn't get a chance to take any pictures before I sent it, so maybe Abe-hap will be kind enough to post some pics.

I decided to start the blanket with a sort of "blank slate" approach. Nothing complicated (it can't get much simpler) and something that is easy to be creative with. Remember that there is no stipulation as to the type of add on you do. We could have a sorts of polygons and fun experiements going on. Be creative!