Nutty

I went on a bit of an expedition yesterday, a yarn expedition.  Okay, I went to the local giant store and bought some more yarn to fulfill my blanket plans.

Marcus picked his colours, though they are tending to be more grey than the brown colours he wanted. I was hoping to find a mustard colour and a rusty brown, but they did not have anything like that in stock.  I guess I will be finding those online should I need them, though I do like the colours I have here.

I did pick up some more neons from the Blanket Brights line too.  I picked up a Sunshine Yellow and Race Car Red.  They had an actual skein of Race Car Red and I had to have it.  Red is Carter's favourite colour so his blanket should have some if it is available.  Carter wanted bright colours but he also wanted something made out of this very very soft Bernat Velvet.  He loved the feel of it.  So do I.  He couldn't decide. 

I meant to only get enough for a pillow case/cover for his much loved blanket but, I have absolutely no control and bought enough for a blanket.  

I must be nuts.

My hands are doing much better after a few days rest and I will be casting on.  I have come to a realisation though and not a happy one.  My coat from the Atlantic Brigg's and Little?  I am going to have to set it aside and give the yarn away. Anybody want two sweaters worth of free yarn?   It is just too dense a yarn for my failing hands to work with.  

I know it seems odd when I have just bought a bunch of thick Blanket yarn, but Blanket is ultra flexible and the Atlantic is not.  That seems to make the difference.  

Starting Over

The black skirt and pants are both finished and I can tell you one thing.  Black fabric, black thread and my black sewing table sitting in the window are no longer a good combination.  I was blinded by black. 

I have worn the pants and need to assess the size I sewed.  Same with the skirt. It is really interesting to look at my makes from this perspective. Who knew.  I sleep better with my bipap machine and unexpectedly (to me) sleep makes a difference to my body in many ways.  

The biggest problem with the pants is an overly long front rise.  I know one nifty trick to help with that problem, but I am thinking that the next pair is going to be sized with the rise from a smaller size of pants.  The backside fit of Muna and Broad patterns is, as usual, just right with only a tiny back rise length adjustment.  The narrower cut of the Birchgrove leg is very nice. 

I am wearing the Pyrmont skirt for the first time today.  It fits great when I am sitting down, with the wide pleats working to make a no stress sit.  The problem is that the total width of the front is just too wide.  The extravagant pleats don't shorten it's width by nearly enough.  I had to cut the elastic in the back to the point of goofy short in order to make it stay up.  Pulling the elastic that short makes the side seam pockets to be uncomfortably and impractically far back. Defintely can use a smaller size.  Thankfully a skirt cut as this one is will be easy to change to a smaller size.     

It is not the fault of the patterns at all.  They were well written and easy to sew and for my body, all the Muna and Broad patterns have been pretty much spot on for fit.  I just happened to need a different size.  Today's job is going to be to remeasure me so I can better judge the right size for my changing body shape.  Its like starting all over again.

A note for those of you who wonder about it, the food I eat is the same.  I have changed nothing. No diet changes.  No medication for weight loss.  Those things are not sustainable.  I sleep better and I write down what I eat every day and that is about it.    

Well Wasted

I putzed around yesterday.  One really ought to spend more time just putzing.  Sometimes it feels like every single moment of time has to have an end product, where you have to have something to show for it.  Having nothing to show for a days worth of time does not mean nothing was done.  Not everything is tangible.  Yesterday was time well wasted.

I did take pictures of one small portion of the day, though.

When I tidied the WIPs bin last time, I noticed a problem on these socks. See the lovely column of plain stitches running between the lacy bits?    

And see how those columns change?  That bugged me.  A lot.  When I was sitting, not knitting yesterday, I thought about things in the bin and remembered the problem and I dug it out to sort out what was going on.  

I pulled out the work, back to where the columns were clear.

I never do that with socks.  They are just socks and no one will care about it, if I don't. No one will ever look that hard at my feet.   Oddly enough, it mattered to me.    

I dug out the book where the pattern is from, and fixed my not really a chart pattern note to correct it and knit a pattern repeat to make sure that I was getting it right. 

I was feeling really great about it all till I noticed one small problem.  The column stitches were not supposed to be purled.  Sigh

It still matters.  They will be pulled back again.  The column is formed by decreases so it would be far too complicated to try to repair and would take much longer to do than just to rip back and reknit.  Reknitting it is.

When I was pulling out the book the pattern is from, I found a note written by Marcus.  I think I was on the phone and he had some time sensitive stuff for me to deal with.   

See the puddle around the 3D cube?  And the spelling correction?  😂  My grandkids are so full of the silly.

Not going to be cowed by this.

Progress has been slow.  This is where I was last week 

and this is what I managed to do over the weekend.  I so wanted to do more but it wasn't to be.

I think the heavier knitting is bringing back up the issues that caused me to not knit all of the early part of this year.  What I have is trigger finger and trigger thumb.  The finger is my middle finger on my right hand and my thumb on my left seem to be the hold outs.  The one that is harder to deal with is the thumb problem.  The finger isn't really used in my knitting, but it stays stationary for long periods of time while I am knitting, arched above my needle, dancing along.  I have been focusing on holding it in different angles as I work. The thumb is a much bigger problem.  It is the fulcrum that supports the lever that is my knitting needle.  

So I am going to take it easier today and do a bit of sewing, maybe tidy a bit by my miniature things.  The supplies there are getting a wee bit out of hand.  There is some planning to do as well.  I have been gathering materials and techiques and appropriate glues to work on the garden along side of the house. I have also been contemplating windows and doors, not working ones but ones that are a feature in the rooms like they would be in a real room.  I want to have a doorstep into the garden that matches what is inside the kitchen.

I am going to look for the piece of old table pad (the sort of thing you put under a tablecloth to protect your good wood table to from hot dishes) that is kicking around here.  My current sewing project is on black fabric, the thread is black, and my sewing table is black. Adding to this, I am sitting right in front of a window and it adds up to I can't see a darn thing.  I am hoping that by using a section cut from the old table pad and changing the black surface of my sewing table to cream, that the blind feeling will dissipate.  With luck, it will tide me over till winter, when the south east facing window is perfectly placed for good light.  The neighbours house hides the direct morning sun and the light is good but filtered.   

I won't be cowed by my hand setback.  I mean to find a way to deal with it and to integrate my knitting into having problem hands.    I have lots of little fun things I can do without stressing my hands, allowing healing.  

Doing the Time

Just like a regular  adult who is not consumed by knitting or by starting new projects,  I settled down to the things I need to do if I want clothes.  

I finished my Birchgrove Pants and am wearing them today to make sure the changes I know I need to make on the pattern are the only changes needed.  The fit is pretty good but they are much too long on the front rise.  You don't need pants to come over your bosom.  That was expected and I did do my usual conservative adjustment but this one needs a more radical bit of work.  It's,s not a hard thing and will happen shortly.  This pant also needs better waist elastic.  The stuff I grabbed was just too soft.

The other responsible thing I did yesterday was to knit on my Sun Dogs variation.  I want it for the fast approaching fall and if I want to wear it, I need to put in the time on it.  

It is really looking sweater like and with the yummy yarn, working on it is not hard at all.  

I do hope to sneak in a wee bit of time on the brilliant yellow sweater today too.  Just to take the edge off, yanno?

ART

When the boys were here, Carter brought me a very special gift.  He made pictures for me.  

Carter does not particularly like art, so having him do it for me makes me even happier.  I know that he really put his heart into it.   And I love his running commentary.

He named each thing in the picture and as you can see, he just ran out of steam.

"Some plant"  It makes me smile every time I go by it.  They will stay up on my fridge till he gives me more.  

I adore my grandkids.  

Challenges and Choices

I had a wonderful time yesterday.  I knit the whole day away and ended up with this.

It doesn't look like much, but it was so much fun.

I had finished the garter stitch collar band and had completed the first lozenge pattern when I looked at the pattern pictures and noticed that the main colour on the pattern was supposed to be the field inside the little lozenges and the accent colour was on the ridges and slip stitches that divide the field into lozenges.  Mine was the other way around.  I checked my first knit of this pattern, 

 and found that the main colour was the field of the lozenges.  I really liked that sweater, so I pulled back the first completed set of lozenges and did the colours the other way around, to match the pattern.  I knit a second time to the end of the first set of lozenges.

I did not like it.  There are yellow sections and some creamy white sections in the yarn

and though the contrast of the colours is what you notice, the sections of those two light colours happens just often enough that as I was knitting the slip stitches and ridges, they would simply disappear into the yellow at the base of the lozenges.  The lozenges lost their punch, fatal on a garment whose whole decorative base is the offset between lozenge and framing.  

It took thirty seconds to decide to rip back.  AGAIN.  It made me happy to reknit the whole thing with my brilliant Sun Yellow main colour carrying over the little lozenges of Prairie Storm accent colour. 

I am really pleased with the way it looks.

I am so glad that I faced the challenge and that I did that knitting because if I had not tried, the question of would it have looked better with the colours flipped, would have been in my head each time I wore it.  Now I know my start was right and can move forward, just enjoying the knit with confidence.  I look forward to simply enjoying the colours.

No knitting now, though. I have to go and finish pants and start a skirt which I did not get to yesterday.  It just did not fit into my day.  Sewing a new pants pattern and skirt pattern is my challenge de jour.

Space for both.

First up, I finally made it to sewing those pants I cut last week.  Second up, I want to say how much I hate sewing in an underlit room on black fabric with black thread.

I did get the pockets both done but that was all I could manage before my eyes rebelled.  The light is different today so I am hoping it will go a bit easier.  Pants are easy to construct though, so long as you go for an elasticized waist.  It is really just a few long seams and you are done.  All I have to do is navigate and hope my machines tension troubles from yesterday are sorted out.

After my adventures in black I wound yarn for a brilliant sweater.

The yarn is from Arcane Fibre Works in the Sun Yellow and Prairie Storm colourways.  I wish I could show you the intensity of these colours, but to see that you either must have the yarn in hand, or go to their website.  The colours really are that intense and brilliant and they make my heart sing.  

I have to say that Arcane Firbre Works and Midknit Cravings are my favourite independent yarn producers.  Their colour sensibilities are so different, but both fill me with such pleasure.  I am so pleased that I get to work on both their yarns at the same time.  (My variation on Sun Dogs) 

Midknit Cravings is subtle sophistication and has colours and sets that I could spend my entire life knitting with and I would still want more.  The colours are comfortable and relaxing and and so beautifully gentle as they slip in, filling every corner of  your soul. It is a glass of rich red wine, the kind that warms you as it goes down.  It's that feeling as if your favourite companion snuggles up to your side and your heart just feels full. It is Vivaldi. That is Midknit Cravings.

Arcane Fibre Works is brilliant intensity.  It is waking to joyfulness and playfulness and sheer energy. It has edges and sharpness and even its gentlest colours have an edge, a sense of pushing boundaries.  It is the yarn you want to punch up your day with.  It is spirit lifting and mind busting making you sit up and take notice.  You cannot look away from its colours.  You cannot ignore its unrestrained exuberance. It is Beethoven. That is Arcane Fibre Works.

There is a place for both in my world.  

A Finished Thing and a New Cast On.

Since I last posted, I finished a thing.  Well, substantial completion at least.  

The knitting is done.  Buttonholes need work to finish.  Ends need to be woven in.  Buttons need to be attached and the whole thing needs to be steam blocked.  So it still needs finish finishing, but I am calling it done.  It fits nicely and it feels...yummy.  I may be in love with the feel of very fine quality mohair against my skin.

Instead of finish finishing, I allowed myself to cast on a new thing.  It was cold this weekend and I very much wanted to be warm.  I pulled out the last sweater quantity yarn from the yarns from my Epic Adventure to points east.  At least I think it is the last sweater quantity.  

I was  thinking it was Heritage from Brigg's & Little but when I pulled it out, it was Atlantic.  It is a bit heavier than I remembered but it is going to be oh so nice and warm.  Heritage is a two ply while Atlantic is a good three ply.  Though it isn't quite what I was planning, it is what I need.   I started a sweater but it will actually be a coat.

I hope to make a nice wide collar for it.  I was knitting something similar from Macauslands yarn but dyelot and colour problems ended that project.  The original plan for this yarn was a colourwork garment like the Ram's Horn Cardigan but I just don't feel like colourwork at the moment.  And I still do need a jacket.  This time there won't be any problem with yarn quantity.  I have seven skeins of white, three of dark grey, and two each of medium and light grey.  Lots of yarn.  

I am going to follow a simple stripe sequence for the colour changes and the collar and cuffs will be mostly white with some rows of the greys mixed in, if I leave myself enough of the grey to do that.

This is a heavy yarn, not quite what my hands were hoping for after the summer of blanket knitting.  I expect there will be another cast on today, though I am not quite sure what.  My lovely stash has so many choices.  

See?  Lucky.  Blessed.

Gentle Rain

I woke this morning and am writing from in front of my open window.  It is lovely.  There is a gentle rain falling and the sound is comforting.  

It makes me think of the splendid front porch at our acreage home and sitting there, dressed in cozy wool with a good cup of coffee and the small portable deck heater keeping us cozy warm, while we looked over our vast domain (it wasn't really vast, but it was our domain).  It makes me think of our constitutional, the archaic name we gave out walks around the yard on weekend mornings, coffee in hand, treading carefully over the network of seats and stairs and paths hidden around our little world.  It makes me remember how it really was ours, in a way that nothing else was.  We were so lucky.  

I am still so lucky. I have kids to play with and to love and I have a vast store of yarn to knit with, and a cozy place to live.  I have more than enough clean cool water and plenty of food.  I don't have everything I want.  Some of my wants are just not possible, but I have more than everything I need.  I am blessed.   

I am thinking of it all because a gentle rain is falling outside my window.   

Musing on Pockets

As I said yesterday, I decided to cut the skirt first.  Not.

All the pattern pieces for the pants were out and it seemed weird to put them away only to take them out again an hour later.  The pants were first.

Here we are with everything cut out.  I have done a quick calculation of just how much fabric I had to start with.  Based on the miniscule amount left, 

I had six metres of fabric to start.  Each pattern took just under 3 metres according to the cutting out directions.  By cutting two things at once, I was able to save fabric and do pockets and stuff out of the weird shaped bits left after cutting the main pieces.  Very little went to the trash, and the remains are small oddments that I might be able to use as accents for something or other.  

I will start sewing today.  I am looking forward to it, though my mind isn't really on it today.  I was watching a video from Kristin Lerher

And she spoke about taking apart some of the things she sewed that she has not been wearing to use the fabric for other things.  That made me think about some of the things I haven't worn much lately.  

I love wearing this blue dress.  But for the green/blue plaid version of this dress, it has been the first one to be worn. The fabric is heavier and it was perfect for winter and fall wear.  With its generous skirt, it is too much for hot summer wear.  I have been debating making a simpler skirt or turning it into a shirt.  It is just too nice to not get the most I can from it.

And this dress.  It got a lot of wear too, till I made a few of my lovely linen dresses.  Since then it has been set aside, because of the skirt.  I had ordered extra fabric because I did not think the skirt had the right amount of fullness.  Turns out that one more panel made it too much!

I want to take the skirt off, and remove that extra panel and plan to use it to make some nice big pockets for on it.  Once I do that, my sweet gingham dress will be back in the regular rotation.

Which brings me to pockets.  I may yet become a pocket person.  I haven't been concerned about pockets, but carrying my phone with me all the time is a chore without pockets.  It is a bit of a bugger considering I haven't been making pockets for things I have sewn till now.  It won't be much trouble adding side seam pockets or patch pockets to pants and dresses, though it is going to take time.  

I do have the time and making things better and more practical only makes sense, but feels like a step back.  It is lot like ripping back knitting.  You do a thing and are not happy with the results.  You prepare to redo and are happy to do it but it would have been so much nicer to have done it right in the first place.  

Meanwhile there is progress on the knitting.  The second button band will be completed on the pretty River blue Elton today and if I do it right, the neckband too.  Possibly a finished object?  Maybe. 

Yesterdays plan for cutting out fabric did not quite work.  I hit a bit of a roadblock.

I love the fit of Muna and Broad's Glebe Pants.  They are my absolute favourite causal, hot summer day wear outside of dresses.  I love the wide legs and the easy fit on the top but, there are times when their casual fit isn't quite what I want.  I need some pants with a bit of a narrower, more classic leg. The  Birchgrove Pants are exactly the right thing. I bought the pattern and prepared it.  I have the perfect fabric.  I even have coordinating fabric for a shirt/light jacket.  And then summer and kids came.

When I sat down yesterday, the first thing I did was go through my fabric stash to find a fabric to use for a first go at the Pyrmont Skirt. I came up with a really nice plain black cotton that I have had for years and years.  (When I say years and years, I mean probably 20 years.) It would be a very wearable trial run, perfect for casual wear.

The only problem is that I was also thinking about using this same fabric to make a first pair of Birchgrove pants.  I have a lot of the fabric so I prepared to cut out both.  And that is as far as I got.  Do I start with the pants first or the skirt.  Which is more important to me?  

I just could not decide.  It is such a large piece of fabric, that I have to cut out as I go, just to keep things under control.  Because I have no idea of exactly how much fabric there is, do I cut the skirt first and possibly run short of fabric for pants?  Or vice versa?  

And that is where I stopped.  I felt that a good hard think about what I needed and wanted more. Then there is the intriguing thought of using the skirt pleat schematic to help pleat the pants... 

I sat down to knit and became thoroughly entranced with my knitting.  I had thought about working with the delicious yarn from Midknit Cravings but my hands wanted to work on the last bits of the lovely Blue River Elton sweater.  

I almost have the buttonhole side of the button bands complete.  Just the rest of the bind off to do.  Then the other side and the neckline to go and another sweater is complete.

While I was knitting the afternoon away, my brain made the pattern decision so I am all set to sew this morning. The skirt reigns supreme.  Pants second.

All this energy

Well, spotty was the wrong word for my posting last week.  Nonexistent would have been the right word.  

The sum of my handwork  was one pin loom dishcloth for the whole week. I sent it home with Carter for his mom.   I need a few more for here and then I will make a batch for each of my other family households.  I know they like them.

I had a wonderful time with the kids.  We didn't go anywhere much, we did nothing that cost money, but the boys found puddles to play in and made videos and generally just ran around.  They tried to stay up all night but this time, grandma caught them.  

For grandma it was a bit of a revelation.  While they were here, I baked.  That never happened in any meaningful way before.  I cleaned.  I even scrubbed the floors.  Each time the kids have been before, even earlier this summer, I have needed a few days just to catch up my rest.  They would leave and I would be exhausted.  This time, other than missing their busy selves, and their goofiness, I feel really energetic and strong.  For the first time in forever, I tidied the spare room aka my sewing room right after the kids left.  It is tidier now then before they came.    I find myself wondering who this person is.  

This morning, I am ready to get going on a new pattern from Muna and Broad, the Pyrmont Skirt.  I debated about buying this one, but only because a skirt is pretty simple, but I wanted to see if my way of thinking of side pockets and pleats would work for the skirts I want.  It is just easier to have it all drafted out for me.  I am really pleased to know that I won't have to sort out the pleat part myself.   

Laundry will be my morning, with cutting out fabric filling in the gaps.  It is one of those negative (cutting out) and positive (filling in time between laundry loads) things that I love about life. This afternoon I am saving for knitting.  I am really looking forward to that.  I am going to work on projects for me because blanket yarn buying for Carter and Marcus and Cassie is going to have to wait till next month.  

I have grandkids here with me this week.  I am having a great time, but I am tuckered right out.  If my posting is spotty, this is why.

A Blanket For the Big Guy

I had a busy weekend because I finished Isaac's blanket!  He is the oldest of my grandkids and he seldom asks for anything.  He is well into his teen years and has his own sense of stuff, which is as it should be, but he said he could sure use a blanket as soft as that.  So he is getting one.

This makes me happy, first because he asked and second, the very pleasing but still utterly brilliant colours and lastly the pattern.  I really enjoyed working up the Larksfoot Blanket direct from Bernat.  It was nice to crochet a blanket this size because crochet is still faster than my knitting.  The deep crochet stitches in this chunky yarn means speedy work.

I am so happy to have this one done in time for it to go to him today when I finally deliver all the little repaired clothing and Owen and Emmett's blankets.  All I have left to do for Scott's boys is Carter's blanket.  I was chatting with him and he really wanted red.

The thing is, there is no pure clear red on the market so he and I are going to have to have a nice chat to sort out what will work instead.  I have some ideas but they too, do not have red in their lineup.  They are wonderfully soft yarns and I know he liked them.  Silvery grey might work but I want him to choose it.

Then there is only a blanket for Marcus and he needs to help choose his colours to match his new kitty, and to finish up Cassie's blanket for her if she doesn't want to work on it this weekend instead of sewing.  

I am enjoying blankiepalozza, but still, I will not be sorry when it is done.  

The Pin Loom Day

After talking about dishcloths and pin looms yesterday, I picked up the big pin loom and worked with it.  

I warped one cloth the the Zoom Loom way, which means it ought to be quick, because you warp three layers and only weave one layer.    The down side to this zippy method is that your fibre passes through strands many times.  By the time I made about two thirds of the cloth, one of the three plys of the cotton yarn gave up the ghost and broke.  

It left a bit of a mess in the middle and I had to break the yarn and start with a fresh bit so that the cloth would stand up to the punishment a dishcloth takes.  

It isn't pretty but it will do the job.  It took about 45 minutes but was otherwise remarkably quick as usual and the cloth will be fine.  It went off to the kitchen without me taking a photo of the finished cloth.  

I decided to do the second cloth in the more usual way to weave on a pin loom.  In it, your cloth is bias woven and I found the whole process really interesting.

Simple too.  You are working with one continuous strand of yarn but the benefit over the zoom loom way is that your yarn is only under wear for one lap ( I don't know what else to call it, but you go around the pins once) and you weave to fill up toward the center of the loom.

By the time I got to the center rows, the tension on the fibre was very, very tight, an error on my part,  I will go easier next time, but it all worked out well enough for a first time.

It is a dishcloth after all and a dishcloth is a great place to play around while learning something new.

And voila.  My first cloth using the standard technique for a pin loom.  I may enjoy it a bit more than the zoom loom technique and it really is much easier on the fibre. 

If you look online, there are all sorts of shapes that a pin loom can be made into. It wouldn't be hard for an enterprising person to make one of their own.  I particularly like the idea of a triangle loom to make a lovely triangle shawl.  I am not an enterprising person though and no, I am not going to buy another one. 

I am a confirmed knitter with a minor in spinning and that is enough for me. Dishcloths are different.  They are a tool I need in my house and I really like the way handmade ones perform.  I choose to do them woven because I want to only knit things I really love and dishcloths are not one. Pin Looms woven?  Yeah.  I can do that. 

A Mixed Bag of Work

It was time to give my hands a rest and that is what I did.  I picked up my sweater, based on Laura Aylor's  Sun Dogs.    I love the lighter weight of the yarn after all the oversize stuff.  It is so wonderfully soft in an entirely different way.  I am making significant changes to the pattern, 

but that is because I really wanted a top with a high collar to ward chills off the back of my neck.  I was also having trouble sorting out my size the first time I tried knitting the pattern (brain fog last fall) and when I restarted I wasn't quite ready to see if I could do it right this time, so I restarted with a contiguous fit.  I hope it works.  

I have another chance to play with this kind of modified round yoke because I am restarting the green Fleece Artist sock yarn Breezeway also by Laura Aylor.  It is the same general construction as Sun Dogs without the interesting details and so far it is going well, though I haven't put much work into it yet.

At the end of the day I found myself sorting out my pin loom squares that I am making from leftover sock yarns.  I was looking at my WIPs listed on Ravelry and realized that I had never listed the project.  

It was time to do that.  It also gave me a chance to see just how much territory the little squares covered so I had an idea of just how far along I was.  At this point, I think about a third done.  I want it to be a nice lap blanket size, big enough that it could be folded and thrown comfortably around my shoulders.

I took the opportunity to take photos as well.  This is not at all a plan for laying them out, just a quick toss of squares on the cushion.  I won't make a layout plan till I am actually ready to put them together.  Colour decisions can't happen till then.

I am not really playing with colour, merely grabbing a ball from the bits and ends bags and working with that till it is gone.  

Playing with the little loom reminds me that I need dishcloths, which I am making on the larger Pin Loom I have from Kiss Looms on Etsy.  I purchased a ten inch loom and while that is a great size for me, if you were thinking of trying one, consider the size of your cloth.  Once it is well laundered and used, the cloth is just less than 8 inches wide.  I am comfortable with that size but most of you would like slightly larger cloths.  

I really like how the pin loom dishcloths work though.  They have all the advantages of knit or crocheted cotton cloths but make a thinner fabric that is really nice.  I am very pleased with what I can produce.

I might be working on cloths today of one size or another.  My hands would like a second day of rest and I am also running out of the multi colour yarn so I am going to have to make a trip to the store to before work on Isaac's blanket can continue.  

Moving Right Along

And there you have it.  The last corner.

He is going to drown in it, but it is a great size and it is cozy, cozy, cozy.  Emmett will love it.  

Keith made me an ice cream cone to celebrate. hahaha

By midday, I sorted out the Isaac's blanket.  The pattern is Larksfoot Blanket from Bernat.  It's rather fun to repeat and I really love how the colours are working together.

I will need one more ball of the multi colour because the blanket is made with equal numbers of repeats in all the colours but it shouldn't be too hard to find.

What is going to take a bit of work is Carter's red.  There are no reds on the market in this yarn.  No pure clear reds that is.  There is a colour that is called Race Car Red but that is more of a raspberry colour than a true red.  I have lots of bits of yarn left from the other blankets so I am going to see what happens when I dye some a good red.