knitspiration
I started on the cuddle blanket yesterday when I was watching Supernatural with Trilly. I've been getting a lot more knitting done on both of my projects now that I'm working on them almost simultaneously -- I've been carting around a big bag of yarn with 7 skeins of yarn for the scarf and 7 skeins of yarn for the blanket, and now that I'm working on both of them, I'm working at least five times as fast as I was before, on the scarf, and I'm getting a lot of hexagons done for the blanket.
At first I was thinking it would be 15x15 hexagons (my current one is 10x10, see here), but looking at other people's blankets, I may make it bigger. The average seems to be 16x20. That's almost a hundred more hexagons than I was thinking, and a lot more yarn. The buying-more-yarn makes me wary, but the crocheting I could probably handle. 15x15 is 225, so about 7 pieces a day for a month; 16x20 is 320, so that would be about 10 pieces a day. That's manageable, considering A) I do nothing but knit and read when I get home, and I am now combining the two, and B) I made 40 in a day when I worked on the last one.
Kate and I went to Hobby Lobby and pulled all of the purple yarns off the racks and laid them out on the floor. It took about half an hour to split everything up into warm and cool palettes, and we decided to go with a muted mix of warm and cool and different brands, to make it texturally interesting. It's all acrylic, but there is no Red Heart. It's mostly Vanna's Choice and I Love This Yarn (four VC colors, three ILTY colors, and one Caron Simply Soft), and although they're all pretty soft, I know from experience that they'll end up wildly different textures when they go through the wash, which is kind of exciting.
I was knitting the Doctor Who scarf at work today (see here, before I put it away), but we've got people from corporate coming in to the center today, so we thought it would be best if I didn't knit at my desk. No one told me not to, we agreed I probably shouldn't. Instead, I'm looking at pictures of hexagon blankets on Ravelry.
At first I was thinking it would be 15x15 hexagons (my current one is 10x10, see here), but looking at other people's blankets, I may make it bigger. The average seems to be 16x20. That's almost a hundred more hexagons than I was thinking, and a lot more yarn. The buying-more-yarn makes me wary, but the crocheting I could probably handle. 15x15 is 225, so about 7 pieces a day for a month; 16x20 is 320, so that would be about 10 pieces a day. That's manageable, considering A) I do nothing but knit and read when I get home, and I am now combining the two, and B) I made 40 in a day when I worked on the last one.
Kate and I went to Hobby Lobby and pulled all of the purple yarns off the racks and laid them out on the floor. It took about half an hour to split everything up into warm and cool palettes, and we decided to go with a muted mix of warm and cool and different brands, to make it texturally interesting. It's all acrylic, but there is no Red Heart. It's mostly Vanna's Choice and I Love This Yarn (four VC colors, three ILTY colors, and one Caron Simply Soft), and although they're all pretty soft, I know from experience that they'll end up wildly different textures when they go through the wash, which is kind of exciting.
I was knitting the Doctor Who scarf at work today (see here, before I put it away), but we've got people from corporate coming in to the center today, so we thought it would be best if I didn't knit at my desk. No one told me not to, we agreed I probably shouldn't. Instead, I'm looking at pictures of hexagon blankets on Ravelry.