It's beautiful and soft, and um...big enough don't you think? She said she had 3 more skeins and was enjoying the pattern so she was going to use them. I don't understand. Why? 3 more skeins of knitting the same thing over and over and over again. It sounds like the seventh circle of hell to me. Then again, I would have done 3 or 4 pattern repeats and started measuring obsessively and bargaining with myself about how big is big enough.
I have the attention span of a gnat. I look forward to the shaping in a sweater or the color changes. I look at an aran sweater and instead of thinking that looks hard, I think I won't be bored. I rarely knit scarfs or blankets for this very reason. I also knit alot of baby and kids clothes because the boring sections of plain knitting are blessedly small. Unfortunately my taste runs towards the plainer more classic pieces, so I often have several items in progress at once. The plainer the project, the longer it will take me to finish it.
My daughter asked me to make a blanket just for her. I dutifully promised and then panicked about how I would manage to complete something a large and as boring as a blanket. 
It's blinding, but I'm not bored.
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Stockinette is why knitting machines were invented. I see no point in doing a lot of the same stitch pattern, over and over, unless you are going to get a spectacular result. That's exactly the reason I gravitate toward cable patterns, too. And it's incredibly impressive, when all you've done is twisted a stitch here and there, and held some stitches in the front or back. Just enough to keep things interesting.
That's a cute color block blanket, despite that fact that the Mason Dixon folks probably thought of making that into a warshrag, too.
Thanks. The original idea for a log cabin blanket did come fom Mason-Dixon.
I love the blanket and the colors!!
I am starting to get very bored with my projects lately because they feel so basic. I just feel I have so little brainpower currently to figure out a more difficult pattern. My boredom is probably why I have several things going at once.
It is wrong that I want to eat Matty up?
Louie wants me to knit him a blanket too, what yarn are you using? He hates anything scratchy and he likes heavy blankets. I don't think I am going to do a log cabin, but I don't find them too boring. There is something about being able to keep all your rows nice and straight that I find fulfilling.
Encore Worsted - size 8 needles. I just stood in front of the wall o'Encore at the lys and waited to see what spoke to me. Plus @ around $5 a ball, it's cheap, not to mention washable.
Oooh- I love those colors and the quilt look. :)
I still mess up often enough that almost nothing is boring for me yet! :Dlol
Is it washable or Warshable? heheh
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