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 something else” factor.
A few months back, I learned about Project Linus. Making blankets is just what I need — I can pick patterns simple enough that I can just work on something with minimal brain sweat, and the finished product goes to a good cause.
I’ve thought about blogging this for a record for a while, and since I just finished my third one, I figure if I’m going to blog these I should get to it :-).
The first thing I started was to take all the leftover yarn I had laying around and make it up into 6″ blocks, then I’d figure out the best pattern to put the blocks together. In the meantime I bought some yarn for non-patchwork blankets, and finished one of those before I got around to putting any block together.
The first blanket I actually finished was a simple blue and green stripe. Click on the thumbnails for larger images:
Pattern: sideways shell stitch
Finished size: 35″ x 41″
Yarn: Caron’s “One Pound” 4 ply acrylic, “sky blue 508” and “soft sage 580.” From now on, I won’t do two light (or two dark) colors together — these two are so close, if I wasn’t in good light, it was hard to tell the colors apart.
Hook: I think I used a size G crochet hook, but it may have been an H. width=
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