Knitting News
Good morning! How are you and how is your crafting coming along? I continue to work feverishly on the christening blanket and am now mulling over how to finish it off without doing all of the remaining charts. I do not have much yarn left with the second skein. I do have a third optional color (similar to the first one) but I'm not sure if I want that and most of all I don't know if 500 yards will give me an additional inch of pattern based on how many inches I obtained with the second skein. If I could get the blanket to be 36 inches wide and long (it's a square!) I feel that would be enough of a blanket. So my wonderings are: how many add inches in blocking will I get? Definitely one inch per quadrant but would I get two inches? Three inches might be right out! Also, how do I finish it off? I am going to flip through some of my other knitting books for some ideas. Overall, I have loved knitting this and I'm excited to get it off the needles and give it a blocking....
I have an idea for purple in autumn :-O black grape or plums or purple chrysanthemum, At least that is what I would get for purple at home. In Australia, season colors are totally different. Thanks for stopping by :-)
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely - isn't it fantastic how trying to focus on a particular colour makes you look harder at your surroundings? I'm loving this photo project - I hope they do it next year when I'm living on the other side of the world and have a whole different set of challenges!
ReplyDeleteDocumenting life through the lens of a camera certainly does seem to make you see things you don't ordinarily notice. When I take my unintentional "blogging breaks", I really miss noticing the little things of life that bring you pleasure. Like those beautiful red leaves against pretty green backgrounds! Great photography!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Red is my favourite colour - and autumn is my favourite season. Great photos!
ReplyDeleteall those are gorgeous! wow. and i like the idea of color by color!
ReplyDeletehave a great weekend!
pretty pretty! you must be far East from where I am....
ReplyDeletewe don't see those colors much around here.
XO
Love the leaf in the grass!
ReplyDeleteCrisp apples and red leaves - lovely autumn finds!
I too am enjoying this challenge. So much fun!
Thanks for your visit. :)
just beautiful karen! i always think this, but it is so pretty where you live.
ReplyDeleteMmmm apples. Great shots! I'm a knitter too! :) Thanks for visiting my blog.
ReplyDeletereally pretty karen, and that frodo of yours is one fetching dog!
ReplyDeleteI feel exactly the same way. Since the challenge started I have been seeing the world with so much more richness! At the grocery I saw some apples after I had already posted and I thought how perfect they would have been for red. So, I was delighted to see them front and center in your post!
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