March 14, 2017

So, 76 stripes/garter-ridges is about one third of the length of our bed. Doesn’t seem like it’ll be big enough, but … with stitches always being added, it’ll take long enough. Maybe finished by next winter? ;)

October 15, 2018

246 stitches after working the two-row stripe of black a few rows after yesterday’s photo. I wasn’t able to count while at knitting meeting; too much distraction!

I think my cable is long enough for at least 300 stitches, if not more. Still increasing. No actual planning about which colour to knit. I just has to please me when I compare it to the previous row. Son thinks it’s ugly. That’s OK; I know who not to give it to!

October 19, 2018

278 stitches after a stripe of very thick yellow; I’ve tied a slip-knot in its fringe, just to keep track without having to count every stitch. This is the first time I had to place a stopper on one needle tip while counting, for fear of stitches popping off it. Maybe it’s time to begin decreasing? Or continue until I reach 300? It’s only 22 more rows/11 stripes.
It definitely is time to dig in my stash for more leftovers; the choices of colours in the project bag has become limited!

October 20, 2018

OK! I decided that 300 stitches is long enough. The last increase row is called “lime green”, but I think of it as neon-electric-psychedelic-green.

The first decrease row (They will all be: p2tog, p across.) is in the shade of purple my mother used to call “dead purple”. (Maybe it’s the colour of a corpse?) Red Heart calls it Light Plum; there are no plums that colour at any of the markets I’ve ever been to!

Now that each row is a stitch shorter than the previous, let’s see if it can be completed before it’s 2 years in progress!

October 27, 2018

4 AM. I’m down to 248 stitches on the needle. Nowhere near the end, but slowly getting there.

It’s getting brighter. I’ve almost run out of all the tag-ends of blues from the two blues afghans I’d made, so I’m using single balls of brighter non-blues along with the rest of the blues. Neons even!

Weather’s cooler. Furnace is running. Having the mass of this on my lap and toes is nice.

October 29, 2018

This is a first for me! I guess doing hours of just purl stitches is different than hours of just knit stitch. I have developed an actual groove just below my left-index finger - from the yarn. I only noticed it in the wee hours this morning. Now, after a good sleep and before doing any more knitting, it’s still there. Wow! No redness or broken skin, but I’ll be paying much more attention - and cutting back in working on this project - to avoid irritation.

November 2, 2018

2:30 AM 208 stitches!!

Each stripe now takes approximately 12 ‘Jessica’-yards, i.e. measured from my chin to outstretched fingertips. I should be able to return to the smaller balls, which were too short for the longer rows nearer the center.

November 5, 2018

184 sts. left.

December 21, 2018

130 stitches left on the needles!!!
For whatever reason - or none at all - since our return from a three-week odyssey to Miami, the southern Caribbean, and back, I am now working my way by colour.
A band of reds/pinks.
A row of black followed by a band of assorted greys. Then oranges, and now yellows.
Next will be greens and blues; nothing planned beyond that.
Will it be completed by year’s end? Possibly, but unlikely. ;)

January 4, 2019

The knitting is completed, so I’m changing its status to finished. Yay! Under two years.
It’s in the washing machine now. After it comes out of the dryer, I’ll pack it and a pair of sharp scissors to take it with me to Sunday Morning Knitting. I like the long counter there for trimming fringes. (See me in action in the 3rd photo down at: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/JessicaJean/narrow-step-...)

Photos added of ending corner and the full blanket laid on a queen-sized bed. I should have made it either a tad smaller or a bit larger!

January 6, 2019

Fringes trimmed while at knitting meeting, and the top two photos are post-trimming. Done, but … despite all that knitting, my collection of leftovers doesn’t seem any smaller. ;)

January 6, 2019

Done! Yet, the stash seems not to have diminished at all.

At knitting meeting, everyone liked the rainbow effect at the final corner; at home, that’s the part my husband least likes! When we put it on the bed, that corner was at the top on his side, and he insisted it be rotated so that corner be on my side!! Weird. On the other hand, our son, Jamal, said that rainbow-like corner was the part he preferred.

I trimmed the fringe at the knitting meeting, and that’s where the top two photos were taken, thanks to Ginette.