Knitted on US3 ebony circular.

6/2013-ish

Using all yarn colors as given by the pattern. Modifying the pattern itself.

I decided to knit this one as a whole blanket (with border added at the end) instead of in strips as the pattern is written. I inserted an extra knit stitch at the left and right edges for picking up the border, and an extra purl column in between what would’ve been each strip. This adds complexity regarding the intarsia but removes the seams. It’s going okay so far.

2/1/2014-ish
This project went dormant for some time as I attended to other people’s baby blankets and three sweaters and such.

Finished the center of the blanket, and happy with the result. Stockinette stitch, seed stitch, and double seed stitch all have slightly different gauges so the different patches of stitches push and pull the fabric various ways depending on how much space they want to take up. As it is, the fabric sort if averages itself out and ends up rectangular.

Picked up and knitted a border in the round instead of one side at a time. More finished miters at the corners this way. Also not so fond of garter stitch borders, so I did stockinette stripes of two rounds each color, then one purl round, then the same with colors in reverse order. Made the stripes jogless with staggered joins and wove in ends before binding off. Increased two sts per corner every other round to make the miters grow, and decreased two sts per corner every other round to make the miters shrink.

3/19/2014
Just finished sewing the doors on (yuck, sewing). Decided I didn’t like them being flappy because they look cutest when they’re flat and they don’t want very much to be flat when they’re flapping about. Sewed down the left and right edges of each door. Considering sewing down the bottom edges too (for little bitty pockets) or both bottom and top edges (for robustness).

4/12/2014
Decided against sewing the doors into pockets because I figured mom wouldn’t like finding stuff in the laundry that baby had hidden in there.

Wove in all ends. Wet blocked then snipped the ends. Pretty happy with this blanket.