blanket

When I visited my cousin this summer, she took me to her local yarn store and she loved the colors of this yarn.  So I bought it and asked her what kind of baby blanket she might like.  Turns out she had already gone through Ravelry and noted on one of her 'favorites' - "Mel, can you make this?  :)"

Indeed.  Though she had to pick a pattern with a lot of purl rows :)

Pattern:  Mountain Chickadee
Edging:  found in a book ("Crochet Edging," appropriately enough) I found at a Stitches East book signing
Yarn:  Casbah.  Used every inch!
 rimmed with a sea green sock yarn I found at Stitches Midwest

blast from the past

one of my first projects.  unearthed at my brother's house - i made this for his son when he was born ... so that would have been summer of 2003.  this may have even happened before i took up knitting again.

yikes!

this was before i knew there was a concept of choosing colors so that they go with each other, rather than colors that i liked individually.  the red is really more of a dark red than the picture suggests.  which probably makes it even more unforgivable.

i do not remember making this blanket.  but i do remember picking out the yarn.  i think it may have been the first time i ventured into a real yarn store and picked real yarn.  i believe the blue heathery yarn might be an alpaca yarn.  too bad my skills/eye/taste did not live up to it, because by itself it really is quite lovely.

she showed me another blanket that i allegedly made.  i didn't take a picture because i really don't remember making it at all.  it's miles of white triple crochet with a couple of stripes of light blue.  it's made with about my level of skill back then.  i feel like i would remember working with that much white acrylic.   but maybe i have blocked it out.

best use of bobbles i've seen

... a crochet lego blanket!