New Stuff
January 10th, 2005 at 1:51 pm (blankies)
A good friend of mine is having his first baby this May. Typically I make a quilt, but this time around I thought I would try my hand at knitting a baby blanket. My Mother-in-law made a great baby blanket for Alex, and I’m going to steal the idea/pattern from that one. What yarn am I using?
This gorgeous soft stuff:
It’s GGH Merino Soft, fingering weight. Supposedly machine washable. I sense a swatch of this in my future to try to wash/dry with a machine to see how well it will hold up. I ordered two different colors from my friend Judy; and the other one is on backorder (phooey), although she got two big boxes of stuff yesterday that she hasn’t opened up yet that might have the other color in it. This is the darker of the two (I think, I honestly can’t remember). The other is a lighter shade of teal. I think I will do the main part of ht blanket in one color, and then some sort of trim in the other color. Since this color showed up first - It wins as the center, unless the other stuff shows up before I really get started :)
The color on this picture is actually fairly accurate (notice TNS hiding behind the yarn? Argh. Dark purple is just impossible to photograph!)
Joann said,
January 10th, 2005 at 6:20 pm
But the real question is did you need new needles? LOL!!