(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.
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.
See my previous Project Linus post for details. The second blanket I finished was from leftover yarn, which I actually started before the blue/green striped one. This one took about half of the blocks. When I get around to putting the rest of the blocks together, I’ll post that one :-).
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 … (read more) “Busy hands and Project Linus”