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finished crochet and knit projects - boring to everyone else
The buffalo plaid baby blanket is done! Now, I will never do one this way again, because I don't think anybody but me and maybe 2 other people in the world who happen to both weave and crochet, and care about what I do, will appreciate the sheer cleverness of this; the same effect, to everyone else, can be achieved by crocheting individual columns and then sewing them together. Nobody else will care that I did this as though I were weaving, holding the "warp threads" of red, yellow, red, yellow, red in columns and carrying a weft thread across (or woof, if you prefer) in alternating stripes of red, then yellow, then red... so that there are no seams, the blanket is fully reversible, and, well, it's just very clever is all. But who cares? That doesn't make it any warmer or more useful to the baby or its parents, and they would not understand the details nor remember them 10 minutes later if I told them. So why bother? However, for those two of you out there who will appreciate how this was done, here's a couple of slightly closer looks.
I think the touch of color on the inner border keeps it from being too severe - because otherwise true red and gold are not what you'd think of as baby colors. But there's that color, and it's slightly fluffy, too. The red and the gold are good old Wool-Ease. The fluffy stuff is one of JoAnn's house brand yarns.
And while I'm at it, a project I finished for a christmas present; the photos are of it slightly before it's finished. The first one shows the L-shape I make them in; this one happens to be knitted rather than crocheted. The second one shows how the stripes will line up when I sew the one seam required when one makes this L-shape, to turn it into a poncho with a hole for the head in the middle.
Incidentally, this poncho is an object lesson in: check your gauge. I did not, and wound up with an adult-size poncho when I meant to make a poncho for a 5-year-old. So the poncho is being shared between my sister S and her oldest daughter H, who is nearly a teenager, and who knits, and who will use the poncho as a guide to making one herself - complete with my explanation of how the size went wrong.
I did make and complete a poncho for 5-year-old E, but forgot to take a picture of it before it went winging on its way. As soon as my brother J takes a picture of E wearing it, I will post it here.
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I also do many of the same crafts you do, and am a big Jonathan Kellerman fan, and MOMILY is one of my best online friends. Hope to hear from you in the new year, and I would still like to write the HOOKERBOOK.
Good luck with your unpacking and organizing. I'm in the same boat....and it's barely afloat!
Your Buffalo Plaid blanket is awesome!
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Yes, I have these pages of things on hats still.
Although now that the crochet community is gone, I have no idea how I could access some of the pictures of the "art hats" and such. But there's still plenty here for the book!
I liked Rage but the older the series gets, the more all the characters are starting to talk the same.
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