Babies and Blankies
March 6th, 2005 at 9:44 pm (blankies)
First, how could you not love this kid, with this hairdo?
Kinda reminds me of an oompa loompa from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory :)
So about that blanket I’m trying to knit. *SIGH*. I’m just not happy with what I’ve been coming up with. My latest attempt with a different lacy pattern:
It’s a really pretty pattern, but I’m just not happy with it as a baby blanket. I suppose you could say I’m being a touch of a perfectionist at this point, and I’d agree - but I’m just not happy with it! This one is using BW’s Frost Flowers pattern. Much more difficult than the first one I tried, and while it appears that it won’t have any hills and valleys, I’m just not satisfied.
Then I cast on to make a more "traditional" blanket, but this time using Lily Chin’s Reversibly Cabled Afghan pattern by Fiber Trends. (see here http://www.fibertrends.com/viewer/V2_lily.html)
It’s a neat concept, and is totally reversible so the cool factor is there. The pattern calls for Worsted weight yarn, and the stuff I’m using here is fingering weight. That’s not a huge deal, and I modified the organization of the pattern repeats to insert some stitches in the middle. I’ve done about an inch of it (no pic, sorry), and I’m just not happy with it. *insert whining voice here*. I’ve stuffed it back in the bag with the first two blanket attempts and might have the guts to look at it again tomorrow.
jill said,
March 7th, 2005 at 8:18 am
Alex is really starting to look like Katie (at least in my interpretation of the photos I’ve seen!) My kids hardly look like sibblings. I guess thats how the genes roll! =P
You, a perfectionist? Nah, couldn’t be!