This is the baby afghan that I finally decided on. It is Lullaby in Leisure Arts "Our Best Knit Baby Afghans". It involves counting which, as you may remember, I'm not particularily fond of...but I found a hint, that makes it easier, that I'll talk about later in the post. The color on the picture is pretty close to the real thing. Isn't it the prettiest shade of pink ever?? It makes me want to work on it just to look at the color!
This is the original baby afghan that is now a dolly blanket for DGD's favorite doll. Boredom and too many ends to weave in made me decide to make it a small size! I gave it to her for a birthday gift and I think it'll be put to use. I've made Dolly a lot of clothes and blankies and they all get used so that is a good thing.
And now for the knitting hint that I found in the magazine "knitsimple". When knitting a pattern that changes every row, copy each row onto a recipe card and punch a hole in the corner and attach the cards to each other with a bit of yarn. Now while doing the pattern you can see each row without searching through the full pattern to find where you are at. I used to use Post It Notes for keeping track of things like that but you have to move them each row and eventually the sticky wears out and it'll fall off at a most inopportune time! I now have 2 baby afghans going with pattern row recipe cards and it is SO much easier to do. You can also break down each row into sections and write them on separate lines on the recipe card making it even easier to follow. This hint may be an obvious thing to everyone else but it was a real "light bulb" moment for me!! :)
We still have snow but it is sunny and slowly the snow is melting away. The streets are pretty good now and grass is starting to show in the yard. Brown dead grass but a real improvement over all snow!!
This is the original baby afghan that is now a dolly blanket for DGD's favorite doll. Boredom and too many ends to weave in made me decide to make it a small size! I gave it to her for a birthday gift and I think it'll be put to use. I've made Dolly a lot of clothes and blankies and they all get used so that is a good thing.
And now for the knitting hint that I found in the magazine "knitsimple". When knitting a pattern that changes every row, copy each row onto a recipe card and punch a hole in the corner and attach the cards to each other with a bit of yarn. Now while doing the pattern you can see each row without searching through the full pattern to find where you are at. I used to use Post It Notes for keeping track of things like that but you have to move them each row and eventually the sticky wears out and it'll fall off at a most inopportune time! I now have 2 baby afghans going with pattern row recipe cards and it is SO much easier to do. You can also break down each row into sections and write them on separate lines on the recipe card making it even easier to follow. This hint may be an obvious thing to everyone else but it was a real "light bulb" moment for me!! :)
We still have snow but it is sunny and slowly the snow is melting away. The streets are pretty good now and grass is starting to show in the yard. Brown dead grass but a real improvement over all snow!!
