love's labor's, ruffled
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 6:58PM
Yarnista

It took me an entire extra week of furious ruffling, but my spiral baby blanket is done.

Here it is, pre-blocking.

 I used two skeins of yarn for the center spiral, and about 90% of a third skein for the ruffle.

And after a nice bath and smoothing, things are looking much nicer.

I am a huge proponent of wet blocking.

I also like how serendipitously this turned out -- the skein I used in the middle was obviously a bit lighter than the other two, and I love it. 

The finished size is about 33" across, and it's perfect. Not so huge that it will drag on the ground, but large enough to wrap a baby in or to use as something comfy for her have tummy time on. By the time I was done with this, I was scrunching one hundred million stitches onto a 40" circular, which slows down progress considerably and does things like break your interchangeable circular needle clean off in the middle of a round.

I am done with interchangeable circulars from a certain company who shall remain nameless. My fixed circulars handled the heavy load just fine.

I will put together some simple directions so you can make your own spiral blanket if you want, and will put that up soonly.

After I finished this, I was ready for something quick and easy, and this was the balm my frayed knitting nerves needed.

It's the Rosy Scalloped Hat from Tot Toppers, and I made the 0-6 month size in one movie and one cup of breakfast coffee.

I followed your advice and knit this out of Parisienne on Springvale DK. I love how it gently spiral striped around the hat.

And you couldn't see it in the above pictures very well, but isn't the edging just the cutest? And it's really not that hard to do, thanks to the easy to follow directions in the pattern.

(Blocking on a happy birthday balloon, of course.) The details make this hat. The rosettes, the scallops, the little pixie top.

When I was done, I immediately wanted to make another, and I could, because I have plenty of yarn left. This only took about 1/4 of a skein of Springvale DK.

I have 82 days of knitting left, and 23 projects left to finish, which means I have about 3.5 days to make each project.

I've decided the next colorway I'll be knitting with is Vivien Leigh, which has been a favorite of mine since it was released.

And for everyone who messaged me telling me to stop wasting time knitting and to hurry up and make your orders, I say phooey. I already work about 12 hours a day, and I promise your yarn will be be headed your way as soon as humanly possible. Emphasis human.

The Yarnista is allowed to knit now and then. Especially when she is 82 days away from having a baby and sick with a sinus infection that's been hanging around for two weeks.

Also, I'm bigger than you. Moreso now than ever. So there.

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