#blankets!

[weird-fact-collection]

am i procrastinating or is it just too god damn cold to think

[fiberandfancysticks]

I made this blanket in 2018; it took me just a few days over 6 months, according to my project on Ravelry! It's been on my bed constantly, since then! I love it; my cats love it.

It's definitely the fastest I ever finished a bed-sized blanket, and it is warm and cozy and heavy!

It was very fun to do -- it's made in a bunch of different sections, then crocheted together, and the whole thing changes shape again and again as you go along. It's not just 'make a circle then square it off' like so many other things are! This pattern is brilliant; I've thought so since I first saw it; that's why it's the blanket I decided to make for myself!

... it does mean I have to always choose new bedsheets/blankets that match these colors, but since I chose the colors I used to match my existing bedsheets and other blankets, in 2018, that's not really a new issue!

[fiberandfancysticks]

This is the enormous circular blanket I made for my mom, 90% done in 2018! It's huge and heavy and I kept having to find new dark purples because yarn kept getting discontinued >_<;;

It is Extremely Cozy, and works very well on her bed!

[fiberandfancysticks]

I found a lovely pattern for a blanket made of knitted hexagons! I have double pointed needles! There are two babies who I need to make baby blankets for! So obviously I had to try this!

Thus far, 8 rounds in, I find myself wondering why anyone would choose to subject themselves to this fiddly, miserable, hand-cramping method of creating flat hexagons with KNITTING NEEDLES when crochet exists and is EASY and LOVELY and working from the tiny middle out MAKES SENSE with a hook!!!

You'll note, however, that I'm still working on this. Maybe by the end of the hexagon (in a few more rows, the pattern instructs me to switch from 3 needles to six, at which point it will presumably LOOK hexagonal) it'll be lovely instead of painful and worth the hassle?

I'm doubtful.

[fiberandfancysticks]

This is a baby blanket I made for the baby daughter of one of my cousins! I finished it just as Covid lockdowns started; remember when people were disinfecting anything they brought into their homes? And my cousin (and her family!) were, at that point, living in Hawaii! I wasn't about to try to mail something from a hotspot to AN ISLAND!

So... I mailed it out to her like 8 months after I finished it! But she got it eventually! ^_^

It's mostly the Carnival of Flowers pattern on Ravelry, with a few modifications -- some of the gaps in the flowers seemed too large, with my gauge, for a BABY blanket! And I improvised the border, having run out of the color(s) I'd have needed to finish the pattern as written...

I'm still very happy with it! (... and really need to finish baby blankets for this baby's younger sister, and another for her younger cousin!)

[studylikepidge]

got a beautiful blanket from society6! its shiro's starry blanket and it is the warmest thing ever. best christmas present from my dad.

[ask-mz-amelia-jones-assassin]

Why can’t I just have my own caccoon of blankets? Freshly washed though..... oh yeah, no money to buy that stuff, damn.