Check it out on Ravelry.

I used about 5 1/2 skeins of Mochi Plus, which translated to a 33″ by 23″ blanket before blocking. But after blocking…

…it turned into a 36″ square piece of fabric. Not too shabby.

I cast on 77 stitches, and knit your standard entrelac with 11 blocks of 7 stitches each. I only had four skeins of yarn at first, but I had to order two more from YarnCountry.com after realizing that amount wouldn’t suffice.

There’s not a lot to say about this blanket, other than it’s going in the mail first thing tomorrow! I hope my recipient likes it! (Also, I hope she doesn’t read my blog, otherwise it’ll be a bit less of a surprise.)

I’ll close with a couple more glamor shots.

Life won this battle. This is the first new post in almost two months. Blerg.

The good news is I have two finished objects to show you. Bonus: they’re both original designs! The first is my “Perpendicular” baby sweater [Ravelry]:

I have the pattern all written up, all I have to do now is format it and do a little sizing. Once that’s done, I’ll send it to some test knitters and hopefully have the pattern for sale online soon!

The other project was my 2010 Ravelympics project, in the event “Designer Original Dance.” I present to you my “Ombre Hat:”

I really need to come up with a better name for that one. This is another pattern I’ll be writing up. More discussions of these patterns to come in future posts, but for now I gotta get some sleep! Goodnight everyone!

No, not that kind of red dwarf. This kind:

The star reference is a bit more obvious during blocking:

I made this little blanket for a friend’s newborn a few months back (Ravelry). I used some Nashua Creative Focus Worsted (Ravelry) I had lying around, and while the color was gorgeous, I felt the yarn was a little hard to knit with and the resulting fabric was a bit itchy. I almost didn’t give it away as a gift, but enough people told me it wasn’t itchy enough to frog, so I left it alone.

The only changes I made to the pattern were adding the ruffled edging—a soon-regretted choice because of its tediousness—and making the blanket smaller than written by stopping on row 70 of the pattern. The ruffled edging was very simple, but took forever:
row 1: knit
row 2: k1fb each stitch
row 3: knit
row 4: k1fb each stitch
row 5: knit
row 6: knit
row 7: bind off

Those increases on row 2 and 4 make for a LOT of live stitches on the needles. Luckily, I didn’t totally lose my mind by the end, and it did look pretty cute. The blanket ended up being about 34″ in diameter after blocking, which works just fine for a newborn.

This pattern is actually a whole lot of fun to knit, and super easy to follow. I think I’d make another one in a heartbeat, just this time with softer yarn!

I’m using a pattern by Debbie Bliss called (appropriately) “Ribbed Baby Jacket” and using some stash superwash wool I’ve had lying around for over a year. I think it’s turning out very adorable, and it’s super fast to knit. It’s also enabled me to watch a lot of Battlestar Galactica, so I’m grateful for that. (I’m still not caught up, though, so don’t tell me who the final cylon is!!!)

I just realized, though, that I think I placed the buttonhole too far down the front. I’m planning on creating an icord flower to substitute as a button. I figure it’ll be cute, and it won’t be a choking hazard for little Piper.

After this is done I’ll have to finish Danielle’s iPhone mittens, lest she freeze her fingers off in Chicago. Sorry, Dani—I swear I’ll get those done, soon!