Juicy Fruit Update. . .and More

So, with less than 23 hours to go, here is the progress:
























Yes, Erin did talk me into putting the inital on the blanket, it was looking a bit plain without it. I know it looks like there is a lot to go, but the rest should go pretty easy. I will be a the relay for a while tonight, so I am very optimistic it will get done.





In other news, I got my hair cut today. There are some bad pics, but pics nonetheless.

Any now my rant for the day:
So, on my way home from getting my hair cut I was craving mozzarella and tomato salad. So I decided to stop at the Remke's on Turkeyfoot, since I was driving right past, instead of going to my tried and true Kroger, which would have been out of the way. So, I went in, got some lettuce in a bag, a tomato then onto the cheese. . .they didn't have any! Oh I was soo mad. The lady at the Deli counter was all rude when I asked if they had any. And you know how it is when you really want something. . . so I ended up driving to Kroger anyway. It made me happy when I walked in and saw my 'people' the older guy that wrangles the carts and wears an headband, the little Indian lady. . .Ah, and they had three kinds of fresh mozzarella to choose from.

Juicy Fruit. . . .

I am at about 22" by 24" now if I start the decreases. I am tempted to finish the first skein of pink before starting the decreases.

From patterns I have looked at, it looks like blankets are anywhere between 18" square to 40" square.

Another thought I had was to buy a pink and green ribbon and thread it through the yarnovers. Cute?

I'm calling it. . . .Juicy Fruit Watermelon

Alright, so in my mail on Saturday I got a personally addressed little envelope. Most of the time that means you are being invited somewhere, someone is saying thank you, and in my case sometimes it's something random from my mom. . .which is a story for another day.

So, I open the envelope up and as I suspected it was an invitation to a baby shower (babies everywhere!!) Well, I don't know about you, but my first thought was CRAP! Why didn't I start anything yet!! Which was followed by - NEXT SATURDAY? What can I make by next Saturday? Well, because as a knitter, you cannot go to a baby shower of a person who knows you are a knitter with out, well a hand knitted gift. So I did what I do best, I ran out to Michael's after work and bought the chunkiest baby yarn I could find in the colors. . .pink and green. I then though to myself, what will be the fastest kind of blanket to make? NO, not a pinwheel, but what I call 'Aunt Eleanor's dishcloth.' After debating how to use the two colors (strips, vertical, horizontal, diagonal?) I decided to do the border in green and the inside in pink. Now maybe you will understand why I am calling it : Juicy Fruit Watermelon.

I didn't like it as first, but it's growing on me. Now the big question is, should I just keep going and leave it plain, or should I put her initial in the middle. . .and if I do so, should I use the green, white of the same yarn OR lambie pie?

Give me some comments!!

Pinwheel Again!

You would think that after the first three pinwheel blankets I would have learned my lesson, but not really. . .another one is in progress. At least I have realized that big needles and big yarn = fast and easy. This border ( slant eyelet from Nicky Epstein's Knitting on the edge) is being knit onto the blanket is and going fast! Now I just have to find a lucky recipient.

Lambie Pie Blanket 1/2

So, Amanda and I decided to knit a blanket for one of our knitting group friends who was having a baby. I remembered that she had liked a blanket out of a book I have: Family Circle Easy Baby Knits. We debated about 'Counting Sheep', because even though she said she liked it, her colors were very neutral. We struggled to find yarn in enough neutral colors that we could pull this blanket off in, then eventually decided on yellow and green since she wasn't finding out if the baby is a boy or a girl.



We reworked the blanket a bit to fit our needs and began knitting, Amanda one half and myself the other.













I am finally done with the knitting section of my half, and Lisa was gracious enough to weave in ALL the ends. . .how many there were. I recall Beth volunteering for the french knot eyes. . I might need to refresh her memory of that. . . maybe she will even do the chain stitch ears. .or I guess I could do those. One Amanda is done with her half we will cross our fingers as we sew the two halves together that everything matches up, then we have a really cool fabric to line the back with. . . I don't think it will be done before the baby arrives. . .but hopefully 'it' won't mind the blanket being a week or two late.

Current Projects

Rubber Ducky Baby Sweater. . .maybe this will get finished someday.

The cuff for mittens to match my coronet hat I made at the end of the winter. I was using my denise needles, and needed the needle tips for another project, now I don't remember what size I was using. . .I guess I have a while until it gets cold again.