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Twenty Stitch Blanket
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2023-05-14 seven bands on three sides; working on seventh on fourth side. Call it quits at the corner?
2023-05-14 seven bands on three sides; working on seventh on fourth side. Call it quits at the corner?
2023-05-06 Half of corner ripped out and reknit, because it was one stitch shy of 20!
2023-05-06 Half of corner ripped out and reknit, because it was one stitch shy of 20!
2023-05-05 Corner Turned!! Colour is NOT at all greenish.
2023-05-05 Corner Turned!! Colour is NOT at all greenish.
2023-03-28 not much progress in two days! Just under 6”. :white_frowning_face:
2023-03-28 not much progress in two days! Just under 6”. white_frowning_face
2023-03-27 favorite style circular! Longer than others. Bend to place vulnerable join safely off the heel of the palm. SMOOTH! Adequately pointy! Brand? Possibly Aero?
2023-03-27 favorite style circular! Longer than others. Bend to place vulnerable join safely off the heel of the palm. SMOOTH! Adequately pointy! Brand? Possibly Aero?
2023-01-26 another corner turned!!!
2023-01-26 another corner turned!!!
2022-12-09 Fifty-three inches each side. 7 bands on the west and south sides; 6 on east and north.
2022-12-09 Fifty-three inches each side. 7 bands on the west and south sides; 6 on east and north.
2022-12-08 corner turned!
2022-12-08 corner turned!
2022-10-14
2022-10-14
2022-10-14
2022-10-14
2022-09-24 front and back
2022-09-24 front and back
2022-09-24
2022-09-24
2022-08-28 stop at end of current side, or continue another round?
2022-08-28 stop at end of current side, or continue another round?
2022-09-24 ridgeless join
2022-09-24 ridgeless join
2022-09-20 finished the stretch where a stitch marker was obligatory!
2022-09-20 finished the stretch where a stitch marker was obligatory!
2022-09-18 need a stitch marker to keep on track!
2022-09-18 need a stitch marker to keep on track!
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Finished
June 8, 2011
June 25, 2023

Twenty Stitch Blanket

Project info
Ten Stitch Blanket by Frankie Brown
Knitting
Blanket → Throw
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Needles & yarn
US 4 - 3.5 mm
Notes

Why name it Twenty Stitch? I expanded upon the original pattern for no particular reason at all and cast on 20 stitches to start.

The yarns in this one are leftover (synthetic) industrial knitting yarns that have been wound together producing surprising colours. There are a few solid colours. Some of them are thicker and some thinner. Some have textured strands mixed in; some have some incorporated strands that are plied and as fine as cobweb weight, but they ALL split, because the fine strands are not plied at all. I like this blanket in spite of the fact that I must keep my eyes on the needles while knitting, and that watchfullness to avoid split stitches is why it progresses so slowly.

January 28, 2015

This morning I laid it out on our bed and decided that I’ll finish the side I’m on and one more side. It’ll be a large baby blanket or a laprobe to use in the car. There will be five ‘bands’ on each side of the starting square, if I don’t change my mind when I reach that marked corner!

September 16, 2022

Brought up from cellar. Knitting on it again.

Slip first stitch purlwise. Knit last.

September 18, 2022

The bright blue bits (9 joins!) are finally done!
Now, I find I need to put a stitch marker between stitches 19 and 20! That’s because the yarn I’m using is too close in shading to the piece it’s being attached to. I found out the hard way - missing a stitch of my 20! - and had to rip back five rows to fix it. I’ll be able to dispense with it, after attaching to the rest of this brown-and-white piece.

September 22, 2022

Turned the corner!

September 28, 2022

Showed spouse. Asked opinion about stopping at end of current side, or doing another round. He asked if I had more yarn, at which I had to laugh!!!
I have oodles more yarn! I guess I’ll keep on knitting at least another round.
No rush. No pregnancies among my relatives. I’m enjoying the knitting, mostly while listening to YouTube clips about all the investigations going on around Trump et al.

December 7, 2022

Back to working on this blanket, after being sucked into the vortex of Seamless Circular and Hexagonal Cloths for the last few weeks. October 18 through December 6 - I knit nothing else!!

December 8, 2022

Corner turned!!! The sides are so long now, that I need to consult the pattern, when I get to a corner.

December 9, 2022

New photo of whole thing.
Fifty-three inches each side.
7 bands on the west and south sides; 6 on east and north.

Finish two sides and call it quits? Or keep on for another (interminable!) round?

May 5, 2023

Corner turned!! In the photo, it looks positively green. Its the colour my mother called ‘baby-couldn’t-help-it yellow. She’d had four babies, so was quite familiar with diapers’ contents.

June 25, 2023

FINISHED weaving in the multitude of ends!!

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Finished
June 8, 2011
June 25, 2023
 
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Ten Stitch Blanket
by Frankie Brown
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  • Project created: December 31, 2013
  • Finished: June 25, 2023
  • Updated: June 26, 2023
  • Progress updates: 5 updates