25-03-2016

2 new photos added at the request of someone who wanted to see the detail of the ‘join’ between squares.

The joins are made by picking up and knitting through the back loops of the ‘chain’ selvedge of the previous square or squares. The most contrasting portion I could find is between the all pink square and a white one.

The squares do not appear square, because I was pulling very hard to make the join more visible.

May 28, 2018

No, it will not be a blanket for an adult sized bed. It’s going to be finished very soon and be about half the originally imagined size. Good as a shawl to keep shoulders warm while watching TV or as a lap-robe. I just haven’t the stomach to keep on going with this super-fine baby yarn! I also don’t think I have all that much more of it to use up. I’ll finish the square I’m on now, and work a border - probably a round of single crochet and a round of reverse single crochet (aka: crab stitch). Then I’ll spend a few Sunday Knitting Meetings weaving in the ends where I joined new balls. Such work, even on baby yarn, is best done by daylight; we have plenty of daylight at our meeting place.

May 30, 2018

There are still a slew of ends to weave in, but the actual knitting and a single round of single crochet are done!! I’ll work on them at the next few Sunday Morning Knitting meetings.

48.5” x 55.75” isn’t as big as I had originally aimed for, but it’s where I’ve stopped.

I may or may not add another border to it. Undecided.

It never once occurred to me that the shape of the solid pink and the solid white formed the letter “L”; it was my husband - whose first language is Arabic (completely different alphabet!) - who noticed it. Now, I wonder if I know anyone who has a youngster with the initial “L”? ;)

May 31, 2018

Just added the 6 top photos. My smart phone’s camera, even with the flash enabled, doesn’t nearly capture the true colours.

The yarn used is all very thin ‘baby’ yarn - three physical plies each, though some balls are a tad thicker than others.

Begun with center rectangle - a greyish white with scattered specks of baby colours - and a cast on of 200 stitches - fifty for each short end and a hundred for the long side. It’s worked with two mitered lines, idea borrowed from the Rambling Rows Afghan pattern.
Next, I worked a ‘round’ of mitered squares that are 25 stitches on each side. The other two ‘rounds’ of mitered squares are 50 stitches on each side.

I refuse to do the math to calculate how many stitches are in this little blanket. I’m sure it would astound me.

My stash has more such yarn, but I think it’ll end up being used as multiple strands together as one, on bigger needles, and make something (blanket, shawl) that’ll take less time than this one did. Tiny needles and fine yarn are fun, but … I ain’t gonna live forever! ;)

August 27, 2020

Shortly after it was completed, our son requested a light weight thing for use in his recliner. This filled the bill. Unbeknownst to me, he wasn’t able to sleep in his fancy (i.e. expensive) electric/adjustable bed for most of 2019. So he used this bitty blanket and slept nearly upright in his recliner from March through to his hospitalization in mid-August. Cancer sucks!!

From the looks of it, Jamal washed it at least once with dark things. It has accumulated loads of dark pills all over. It will probably remain mine, because of the pilling.
Right now, it’s on my side of the bed. The super hot weather has gone, at least for awhile, and a sheet isn’t enough for me. Of course, my darling wants nothing but the top sheet.

October 19, 2021

Mohamed asked for blankets to send to his siblings in Syria. So, this one is packed in one of his bags. (The other blankets aren’t of my making, and all the blankets we’d collected from various airlines in pre-Covid times.) He says they need the blankets, because winter’s coming on, and there’s usually no electricity/heating.