Monday, January 07, 2008

Actual knitting content - OMG!

I keep waiting for the perfect natural lighting to get some pics of my recent projects, but being as I live in Oregon and there won't be good natural light until June (at the earliest!) I'd better just give up and get pictures taken. So what if the color isn't perfect? At least it'll get documented before it gets overly used, right? I'll get to that soon, bad light or not, but in the meantime, here are pictures of my mom's Christmas present. It's called the Hemlock Ring Blanket. It's a doily pattern from the 40s, but made with a heavier weight of yarn to make it a lap blanket. This one is Lamb's Pride Superwash Worsted in the Japanese Plum colorway. It ended up about 44" across. Mom had to convince her neighbor it wasn't crochet. She finally told her I don't know how to crochet, which is so true! Anyway, there is really some knitting, but I'm not making promises on the rest...until June, of course. ;)

The blanket picked up a nickname while being knitted. I began affectionately referring to it as "The Amoeba." Is it just me or does it have a jellyfish kind of quality to it?



While I don't agree that knitting is the new yoga, knitting itself goes through its own kind of yoga when stretched to its extreme for blocking. Looks a bit better, eh?



Here's a close up of the center while it was blocked.



Finally, the finished product. The color really isn't all the far off in these pictures, either.