Log Cabin blanket
Recipient: Unknown
Designer: Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne
Pattern: How to Log Cabin
Source: Mason-Dixon Knitting
Due: N/A
Colours: Purple and Black
Yarn: Red Heart Comfort, 100% acrylic heavy worsted weight
WIP Status: No idea how far along I am
- 2008-Oct-16
- More insignificant progress here and there.
- 2008-Sep-27
- This also got a bit of time since my last blog entry - nothing spectactular, nothing to merit a new photo - but still, progress is progress.
- 2008-Sep-16
- This is proceeding very nicely indeed and I really like how my little variation on the Log Cabin theme is working out.
- 2008-Sep-1
- And once again, my obsessive nature takes over. Here's the whole sordid story:
A few weeks ago, my LYS brought in a new yarn: Marble Chunky. This is very similar to the Marble DK that I used for all the KWB/TSF hats I made a while back, but in a thicker gauge and different colours.
And oh, the colours. I'm particularly obsessed with MC3, which is a very righteous purple/blue/green combination, but there are lots of other good ones, which make the whole line pretty much Covet City. And at one point I was looking at them on the shelves and was seized by an inspiration to make a baby blanket out of the pink and light brown colourways using the Log Cabin pattern.
Now, I've never done a log cabin blanket before, but it seems really cool and people have done some wonderful stuff with it. I'm not yet in a position to buy the Marble Chunky for it (I'm waiting for the right gift-giving occasion to come along which will give me an excuse to buy it using household funds instead of my own spending money), but I figured I could practice the concept with stash yarn and do some stash busting in the process.
And so, we have my first log cabin blanket in progress:
I'm not sure whom it's for nor how big it's going to be, although I do have about two pounds of each colour to use up. It is, however, a fantastic project to do while spending time with my girls when they don't need to me to actually do stuff with them - it's completely brainless and I don't have to look it, so I can watch and talk with the kids at the same time. I'm definitely enjoying it, although of course it's going to get more and more sloggerific to make any progress the bigger it gets.
I'm thinking maybe it'll end up being an emergency blanket that we keep in our car trunk.
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