Whew!

[daemon82]

I've been commenting and complaining about it forever, so I guess it's only fair to show off my fantabulous knitting project. This blanket took up every scrap of spare time I had for 2 months (and some time that wasn't spare), and gave me sore wrists, numb fingers, and countless headaches. So you can see why I'm INCREDIBLY proud of finishing it

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[thekat03]

that is so awesome. *drool*

[alison_in_oh]

I'm so glad they were enthusiastic, I'm very pessimistic these days about handwork being appreciated! How did you finish the edges?

[daemon82]

The edge finishing was actually kind of accidental. I cast on using the long-tail cast-on with one strand being black, the other white (but I went back and covered that up in the end). At the end of every row, I knit one stitch with both colors to tie them together solidly. For the cast off, I knit the front and back stitch together with white, then stitched through the white stitches with black. When I got it all done, I took a white and black strand and twisted it kind of randomly around the cast-on row so it would look more like the row edges and bind-off row.

And I was very nervous about them liking it enough to validate all the work I put into it, but she was very appropriately thrilled (and so was her husband). She's going to take it to her other showers that his family is throwing to show it off.

[alison_in_oh]

I am *gobsmacked* by this project. It's totally the kind of thing I'd plan, and start, and then all my excited-to-start-new-things momentum would die either after I hit snag after snag, or after a few inches of work.

I mean, I started a double-knit baby blanket once, because that shit is awesome. I think it hit the trash with four inches done. And I've mapped out extensive colorwork projects on knitters' graph paper, but then I've chuckled wryly and realized that I could never follow the chart for that long, especially not with little kid(s) around distracting me, and given it up as a lost cause.

And not only did you plan it, and DO it, and without visible flaws in the double knitting (because it would be pretty blatant if you had switched black and white especially in the middle spaces), AND on time, but you even gave care to the edge treatment?!

*gobsmacked*

[daemon82]

*laughs* I guess I have focus?

[thekat03]

hang on... where's the fibula?

[towerboy]

It got lost in the pixelation (5 stitches/inch horizontally, 7 stitches/inch vertically). Also, the sketch I was working from was hand drawn, but the best one I could fine quickly for creating the pattern.

[thekat03]

ahh... i was just confused when i was analyzing how the radius and ulna fit, and then looked further down. that makes sense!

[towerboy]

Also note that this is essentially 2 blankets in one. That will be a warm baby this winter.

[reasie]

That is a fantabulous knitting project!! VERY cool! You have mad leet skillz!