New project alert! I’m doing my best to recreate the blanket in this illustration from Matt Forsythe’s Pokko & the Drum, which has taken up permanent residence in my librarian heart.
Finished knitting a blanket for my nephew as a graduation gift.
Used a variegated acrylic yarn and a diagonal stitch (that's really hard to see with this yarn, as it turns out 😅).
It's basically a large throw blanket (big enough to curl up and sleep under if you're short like me).
I like how it turned out, if I say so myself. I only screwed up the pattern in a few spots, and since the pattern is hard to see in the first place, it's even harder to see the mistakes.
This took me a few months (knitting in my free time, and when I wasn't working on socks for my sister lol). Someday, I'd like to get faster. Gotta remind myself that I'm still pretty new at this. 😅
It’s done! And I’ve never been so relieved to be done with a project! I was really cutting it close too as a Christmas present! And the only reason it took so long was because I misread the pattern and how wide the panels were supposed to be. My nephew will never outgrow it though at least!
five balls of a cotton blend (came with the gradient)
has a really nice weight to it but still relatively cool for the hot weather here :))
I listened to SO MANY podcasts while doing this ahaha
two hundred stitches!! at least at the start lol I’m pretty sure I’ve dropped quite a few judging by the random holes in the blanket
if I ever make another one ill probably use 300 stitches bc I think it could have been a bit wider, and stitch markers 😔🙏
apparantly my siblings have been using it a lot which aaaaaaaaa 🥺🥺💜 really really happy i made it
I also switched from English to Continental style bc I heard it was faster but uh clearly I didn’t achieve the right tension bc they look pretty different (above)
you can tell how bad I was at continental just by looking at the picture I think 😭
idk if it was faster but interesting to learn anyway!!!
Finally finished the blanket for my friend for Christmas! This thing took an inordinate amount of time (the house-hunting stress, appointments, etc. probably didn't help in that department lol).
Pics or it didn't happen, amiright?
There are a couple spots that seem jarring to me, but the yarn I used is designed this way (with the colors changing as you go), so there's not a lot I can do about that.
Close up of a corner so y'all can see the border better:
All in all, I'm happy with it and hope my friend likes it!
Only like 10 more projects to try to finish before Christmas. 😅 (Okay, that's a slight exaggeration, but it's still like 5, which is a lot between now and then.)