When I decided to do blankets for my grandchildren, I shared them with my knitting guild, and now you have the ideas I was thinking of for each. This idea gelled for me in September 2019. Things happened including a move, caring for aging in-laws, caring for a granddaughter, and losing some of the children for whom these blankets were intended due to relationship breakups. Suffice it to say not all of these are done. In the move, most have disappeared. Finished ones? Lost in the packing.
Blanket 1 is all but finished and ready to wrap. I have to join the ends of the i-cord bind off, give it a little blocking, and zoom into a box. I have no clue where this is.
Blanket 2 is currently on the needles for the 3rd time. Attempt/rejection 1 was in the round as a 10-stitch circle blanket. Attempt/rejection 2 was a 10-stitch square blanket. Attempt and success 3 is the dishcloth blanket. I have no clue where this is.
Blanket 3 will be a feather and fan pattern. I. Using the same yarn in a pink with chocolate stripes colorway. I plan to use the same needle. Feather and Fan pattern was scrapped for a simple garter stitch. It is finished and in use.
Blanket 4 will be a zigzag stitch with us yet to be determined the number of stitches between the peak and valley. The yarn is the same in a blue ombre. The needle will be the same. Yarn is packed from moving and still in an unknown box.
Blanket 5... I might do a center out square again or a dishcloth blanket again since it won't go to the same family. It might be a circle blanket with spirals of yarn overs each round. But it is up in the air. The yarn is the same as the rest. The colorway is called storm. The needle will be the same.
I determined I don't want to do the pick-up required for the 10-stitch blankets.
Particulars are yarnspirations Bernat blanket ombré yarn in burgundy ombre. Same as blanket 1 it has 220 yards per 300g cake. I'm again using US 13 circular needles.
I started with 3 stitches cast on with the long tail cast on.
R1: k1, kfbf, k1
K2: k2, yo, K to end of the row
Repeat r2 until you reach the end of the cake with a whole row. Repeat this. Kitchener the two halves together with the garter stitch version.
I'm hoping to find these blankets/yarns this summer so I can get this project done and off to the children left in the family. If I had any inkling that the blankets would be received and kept, I would have no problem knitting the for the kids who we are not in contact with any longer. But I don't and have no idea how things would be received. What would you do in these circumstances?
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