blanket10-foldWith the Hoover blanket (variation #2), I’ve added another new technique to my crafty arsenal: double knitting! The double thickness should be nice and warm (it certainly felt warm sitting on my lap as I worked on it), and not be as breezy as regular knitting. This was (as far as I remember, adding this note when I moved the post off Livejournal in 2013) my last Project Linus blanket. The logistics of getting blankets to them got to be more of a hassle than it was worth, and I found another group to donate to (more on that later).…

blanket9-detail Still using up leftover yarns, I decided to get a little clever on this one. I started from the middle, and worked outward. That way, I knew that the finished blanket would have some symmetry :-). This one was done before the summer hat (and is where I got the idea to crochet between stitches instead of in them), but I didn’t get around to taking photos until now. And, the semi-obligatory link to my original Project Linus post. …

blanket4-detail (See my original Project Linus post for more details.)

Man, have I gotten behind on these :-). It’s Catch-up Day here on Tiny Toon Adve…er, anyway… This one will have more detail, since I couldn’t find a pattern to do what I had in mind and ended up creating my own. Feel free to share this one around with other folks. I’ve marked it with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License.…

blanket3-detail See my original Project Linus post for details. My third completion was an attempt to find a way to have the convenience of working on blocks without the hassle of having to sew them together.

This one would have been done sooner, but a) I took a while to decide if I was going to buy more purple yarn to make it a bit bigger than it was when I ran out of that color (I did), and b) I’ve been working on another non-Linus project in the interim. More on that one when it’s done.…

blanket1-detail I enjoy knitting and crocheting, and one of the main reasons is to have something to keep my hands busy while watching or we’re roleplaying or things like that. But I can’t just make stuff to make stuff — I want to know that someone’s going to make use of it. I tried one of the things where people make sweaters that are given to needy kids, but that got to be too much work (I hate having to sew bits together, and getting something like that sized right takes enough concentration that it defeats the “knit while you’re doing …