Blue and Purple: The last baby blanket

(Topic: Knitting, NICU)

Hi Friends!

As you might recall, I've been working on baby blankets to be donated to the local NICU. In fact, you've seen the in-progress version of this very blanket before! Here are the last few steps, showing how I completed it.
Also, I found out that the local infant loss support group (that I actually go to!) was getting blankets from the same knitting group, for deceased infants. Obviously with my particular background, infant loss blankets speak to me a lot more than NICU blankets, since I never actually had a child in the NICU. There are many lovely people who will continue to make NICU blankets, but I, personally, have chosen to switch to infant loss blankets only, whenever I am in the mood to do baby blankets.

I tried a lime green, but really didn't like how it looked. When I started that color, I couldn't find another color, but later when I sorted my yarn, I found the (slightly) darker purple skein you see above! I liked it much better than the lime, so I frogged the green and did a darker lavender instead.

Beginning the dark lavender.

As plasticky as this chenille is, it actually makes quite a cozy blanket!

And, done! Two shades of lavender, and a slightly different chenille used for the blue edging (thus the skewed edges - there are the same number of stitches but the light blue yarn is thinner so it doesn't make as thick or wide a fabric).

Thank you to the Loose Knit Group for donating the baby blankets that I have made to this point.


Yours,

Sarah

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In Progress: Blue and Purple Baby Blanket

(Topic: Knitting)

Hi Friends!

Just a little update on another knitting project I have going. This is using a chenille yarn, and is knit in stockinette for the body and garter along the edges to reduce curl.

The blue is a somewhat thinner yarn, so I might get a bit of accidental shaping from that. I'll knit till I'm out of purple, and then depending on proportions might add another color to the middle; I'll then end with blue again.

All for now - more pictures when it's done! This will be a baby blanket, and will be donated to the local NICU.


Yours,

Sarah

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Cuddly Yellow Blanket

 

 Buttery Snuggle Blanket

 This is a blanket I started out just because I had a pretty yarn! It was soft, and I loved the yellow with little tufts of other colors. I only got 2 skeins, though, because it was in the clearance bin and that's all there were.

I probably could have started out smaller, or swatched the gauge, but I didn't, so this is the blanket after I used up both skeins:

 I took the picture while yarn hunting. My goals were: color match, and just as soft and nice to the touch. For this particular project, I was not being picky about the material.

Here you can see it close up, along with some of the tufted colors (which were orange, purple, lavender, pale green, and white). The skeins below are some of the chenille I found that matched what I wanted:

 

Here you can see the brand and style. I got several skeins of yellow, which I used most of, and one skein of each accent color.

Here they are all together, with my started piece on top:

 So then I had to figure out how I wanted to proceed. I figured out I wanted a narrow stripe of accent color right next to the first portion, and I decided the purple might be best. But I got this far and realized I didn't know how wide I wanted the yellow to be:

Well, I did a bunch of calculations for proportions of the blanket, and based on the width I had, and only one stripe of each accent color, I was able to figure out how wide to make the yellow stripe, at least approximately, and then once I had the first one done, I knew how many rows to make the subsequent yellow stripes:

And here is the finished product. Super cuddly, warm, snuggly, and wonderful. I originally thought I'd make a baby blanket from that variegated yarn, but once I got going, I realized it was closer to crib size... and now I just love it too much, and it's my lap blanket for couch snuggles. It's wonderful.

Yours,
Sarah