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. Most of all I would love to knit something else.
Lots of knitting conundrums here. I think that pattern is lovely and I really like that knitted border. I don't know what I would do... hmmm.
ReplyDeleteThis is why I almost always end up buying extra yarn for projects. I don't like these sort of knitting conundrums, but I think you enjoy yarn chicken and figuring things out. I'm sure you will!
ReplyDeleteWow, it's beautiful and I love your thought process. I wonder if you are able to soak a few inches on the bottom of the blanket, and pin it out, let it dry and see how much it grows? I know you have way too many stitches to put it on string and do that. Whatever you decide will be the right thing!
ReplyDeleteI get that way near the end of a project too. Which ever way you go, it will be a beautiful blanket.
ReplyDeleteLove the change of colors!
ReplyDeleteI think 36 inches square is perfect for a baby blanket....especially a Christening blanket. It is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing the finished product.
ReplyDeleteThe blanket is going to be an heirloom. I suppose if you had wanted to take the time you could put it all on waste yarn and block it to check on the size. Then again that sounds like a lot of work. Sometimes I wish for a magic mirror so I could see whether or not I have enough yarn to do more repeats. The love in the blanket is the main thing though.
ReplyDeleteSo many questions!! 36" square sounds perfect and I do love the second color you have added. This is already an heirloom!
ReplyDeleteoh Karen, the piece is going to be amazing ... when I imagine the prayers you wrapped into each stitch ... so of course however you decide to end it will be perfect. and maybe you should enlist help for the blocking - I've found that four hands can get lace to open up more than two....
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful and I think 36" seems reasonable.
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