#blankets!

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!

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 >_<;;

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?

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...