I might regret this, but I want another cotton blanket, and soon – we’ve been fighting over the one.
So I took two of N’s old sweaters:
And reduced them to stringy cakes:
I started with a linen-stitch thing, but the colors don’t have much contrast (these photos lie a bit) and though that pattern is speedy, it’s not as speedy and nearly 99% foolproof as knitting only.
So I ripped and started over.
I like reversible blankets, but this one won’t be, but so be it – I wanted to do all garter stitch, but in the round I’d have to purl, and that slows me down a tiny bit and/or taxes my wrist a bit more, so I’ll only do a few all-garter bands here and there – it’s mostly the same pattern as the other blanket I finished last year.
I knit the center garter rectangle at the shore. Cotton turns out to be a very good beach knitting material, so that just bought me a few good chunks of knitting time (if the weather cooperates with our time and ability to go – we’re now just slightly over an hour to the shore rather than the 35-40 minutes it took when we lived in the ghastly vinyl village).
(Let’s hope its expression isn’t a true expression of how it feels…)
And seashells work for for emergency stitch markers…
I’m not happy that the gauge is so loose – loose gauge is up on the list of my knitting pet peeves, but the next size needle down is on another project, and the next one after that just seems wrong to use on a large project that I want to believe will be quick, or at least not slow…
But ugh, cotton… My wrists and hands can only take a few rounds at a time, and the rounds are still short…
ASTITCHMATISM 