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A long time in a making and even longer in presenting, but no more! I present to you, the Baby Blanket in Mission Falls 1824 yarn!

• Finished Blanket in my home
• Jocelyn with the finished blanket in its new home.

Pattern:

80% Baby Blocks from The Design Source Book of Home Decor by Judith Shangold, and 10% Mason-Dixon Knitting and 10% Moi!

Yarn:

Mission Falls 1824 Wool in Aster, Sprout, Basil, Squash, Rhubarb, Stone

Needles: Addi Turbo US9 circular + Denise US9 circular (for the border)

Started:

September, 2006

Finished:

January 17, 2007

Occasion:

Baby Shower

Recipient:

Jocelyn

Notes:

As I didn’t use the called for yarn or colours, I just took the idea of the throw and made it in the style of. I changed up the colour&pattern combination for the outside corners and left most of the pattern configuration the same as called for by the pattern book. Instead of the crochet border, I used a ‘picture frame’ border to extend the size of the blanket a little.
While I did try my best, I couldn’t help but make lots of mistakes. I’m very much a perfectionist, but years of work meeting deadlines has taught me that sometimes you have to be happy with 80-90% of what you can make it so you can get it done on time. In this case, if I keep picking at it and trying to make it May-perfect, the child will be 10 before I’m done! I’m happy with the result and I know that the little touches of imperfection will be overlooked or just be reminders of the fact that it was hand made. I think I’d be happy even if it’s a teaching tool for the child growing up on ‘spot the difference’. hee hee. It’s all done with love and that’s all that matters.
I am quite proud of it in fact. It’s the first pieced blanket I’ve made. It’s a lot more challenging and it was fun to learn new techniques. The patterns in it has got me a lot more interesting in making lace work and explore more pattern work in the future. The only thing is that the garter stitched borders that you’re supposed to use to join the blanket together made it seamless invisible join impossible and that annoyed me. I also didn’t really like the idea that there was a front and back to the pattern. The next time around, I’d do a different border to make it easier to do an invisible join and I’d flip the front back squares to make the blanket reversible. Live, Knit and Learn!

Some In-progress photos:

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  While I worked on the blanket, the strips and extra yarn gets stored in a box.
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  Ends all ready to be weaved in.
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  Tied the strips together quilt like to help in sewing up.
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  Sewn up and ready to pick up stitches for the border

The Photoset on Flickr.

Blanket previously seen on September 17, 2006; November 14, 2006; January 14, 2007; January 25, 2006; January 17, 2007.

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