Blanket for Olivia Grace

morgybear
Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:22:52 GMT

Originally started 2/17/13 to do the Felix Blanket on size 4 needles. Restarted 4/1/13 with a smaller stitch count & larger needles. Baby shower is 5/4/13.

4/4/13
Just the wrong yarn for the Felix Blanket pattern, and the pattern was a little too difficult to try to accomplish in 4+ weeks. I switched to Allegra’s Cover, which I think will be adorable in this yarn.

4/8/13
Aaaaand… starting over again! Got 20 rows in and realized it would be a very wide, very short blanket. Going to cut it to 2/3 of the original width, and that should give it a squarer end size.

4/13/13
Starting to look adorable! I’m using a white border, green for the main lace pattern, and pale lilac 2-row stripe between the lace bits.

5/9/13
Knitted the last pattern rows on the plane flight to DFW. Took apart the cast on row that night (stayed up till 1 am), continued to take it apart and get live stitches the next morning, and knitted madly to add on the extra white rows at the cast-on side that afternoon in the hour of actual free time that I had. Had to take back the blanket after the baby shower in order to weave in the ends.

BUT. Mama and Papa LOVE the blanket, and bonus, the blanket goes perfectly with the Jungle Jill wall decor they used in the nursery! (3rd picture here, from Carters)

July 23, 2013, 8:13 am
Olivia Grace Raymond, 7 lbs 4 oz.