Baby, It's Cold Outside!

But I hope you'll be nice and cozy wrapped up in this. Of course, when you get here in February, it will probably be 80 degrees again.

Man, I whizzed through this project -- thanks to the days off due to the recent icy weather. I'm not sure if this semester will ever get started.

I did have a few stumbling (ahem) blocks on this project. See my previous post about having problems figuring out how to seam it up. And dropping a stitch in one of the garter stitch border rows and not noticing until I'd already bound off -- there's no fix for that but unbinding. Of course it was way at the end of the row.

Oh, and there are four garter stitch squares -- the only pattern that was reversible -- and I got two of them in backwards. I may have been breaking the laws of knitting, but at least I was following the law of averages. Didn't notice until I was nearly done and I could see the woven in ends poking out on the right side. I fixed that by unweaving the ends after I was done, poking them through the blanket, and reweaving them on the other side.

I hope the little bundle of joy and her mommies are going to be pleased with this.

As usual, more pictures are available at the Flickr site linked on the right. Thanks for all the support! And now, I'm going to get cranking on those cedar socks again...