Knitting: Shale Baby Blanket is finished!

This August, I finished knitting the Shale Baby blanket!

This means I’ve met my personal goal of knitting three baby blankets for 2018 a few months early.

The shale blanket is 100% wool, just like the two other blankets I’ve knit this year.

It’s also heavy and it’s incredibly soft.

To be honest, I knew that I most likely would be making another blanket. Why not stick with an even number for the blankets, right? And so, a little over a month after completing my lace blanket I started knitting this simple checkered blanket. This blanket is for my daughter. I asked if she’d like a blanket, she told me she really didn’t need one, but I knew she wanted one. She doesn’t ask me to knit her anything, but she loves and uses whatever I make for her. The reason she doesn’t ask is that she knows the amount of time it takes to create some of my knitted items and she feels guilty about me devoting so much time to her. I’ve told her often, that she’s the most knitworthy person I know and she’s my favorite person to knit for. She finally told me she’d like a blanket in yellow and in a checkered design.

I’ve made a few checkered knit items before and it just so happens that I had yellow wool (mustard to be more specific) in my yarn stash.

I’d started this blanket using my size 10

Hiya Hiya Steel sharp interchangeable circular needles, however, I thought the fabric should be denser and so I ripped out the blanket and started again.

This time I used my size 6 Hiya Hiya’s, much better!

And so it begins again… another work in progress wool blanket.

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