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knitting (intarsia) PIP!
I posted about this forever ago... I've finally finished the main part of the blanket! Just the sheep borders along the sides to go!
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Re: knitting (intarsia) PIP!
Joseph Henry was born at home on March 9, 2009
Nora Mae was born at home on October 30, 2011
Thanks ladies
All this knitting talk lately has kept me working on it!
The poem/lullaby is Sleep, Baby Sleep. My mom used to sing it in German...
It's from the book Lullaby Knits- certainly not my own pattern, and I spent lots of time looking back and forth at the pattern!
That blanket is so ah-mazing! I was trying to remember who was knitting it. You've done a great job!
I remember you saying you're going to have to put a back on it. What kind of yarn did you use to knit the blanket?
Thanks
I have a marbled blue cotton to go on the back (eventually- hopefully it'll be totally done before the next baby arrives). The yarn is Brown Sheep Company Top of the Lamb Wool, sport weight on size 2 needles. The ladies at the yarn shop said it wears really well (or doesn't wear, I suppose!). Only drawback is that it's permanently mothproofed- good for lasting a long time and handing down, probly not so EF.
Mother's Day, 2011
Honestly, I started maybe 3 years ago. This blanket isn't terribly difficult, in terms of technique- it's all straight knit/purl. The hard part is the rows where you have to switch back and forth with 4 colors
But certainly not impossible- just time consuming. Oh, and I've been working on this for 2 years! (But I've also put it down for months at a time without working on it)
Yes and no (tho I keep the chart in my bag anyway). The chart is more important for the sections with words, but there's quite a few rows that are solid colors, and the rows with flowers all repeat (3 blues, 2 pink, etc).