3/22 - And we’re back to this pattern again. I kind of don’t want to add this project to my project page because I’m so close - SO CLOSE - to finishing my two long outstanding WIPs and I just want those to be done…but I needed mindless knitting and the baby shower is soon and the baby will be here not long after, so I cast on. Funnily enough, I’m casting on for the baby blanket on Crystal’s 30th birthday! How coincidental is that? I knit on it when I went to see the midnight showing of The Hunger Games, which I’m sure Crystal would approve of, and I’m already up to 15 stitches between the markers. This one should go fast, I’m sure. I’m going to save one whole skein of the Creme Brulee for the seed stitch border, since that’s such a yarn suck and I don’t want to run out, but I definitely want to use up ALL the yarn if possible for this blanket.

4/13/12 - This one definitely went quickly. I used one whole skein on the seed stitch border and nearly ran out of yarn during the bind off. Okay, full truth - I did run out of yarn because I was doing the sooooper stretchy bind-off. So I ripped back a few sections and alternated between just slipping stitches and doing a nice stretchy bind-off, which I think worked just fine. After all, it’s for a baby whose parents on non-knitters. It’s soaking right now, and on Monday I’ll pop it in the mail so that it an get there in time for the baby shower. (Hopefully.) I only used 2 of the skeins of Sea Foam, so I have one whole one left over. I wanted to use up all the yarn, but I also wanted the blanket to be finished in time.

The border did NOT cause me excessive amounts of pain this time, since I spread it out over several movies (Friends With Kids, The Terminator, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and a few games of Catan and Zombie Munchkin). I’m really happy with how it turned out but I think I’m done with baby blankets for awhile. Do you hear me, world? No one else deserving of a baby blanket made by me is permitted to get pregnant.