Here's What You Missed Last Time On Glee

JK, this is not a Glee recap, though now I wish it was. Here is a short post on some things I didn't post about. Last summer I started another blanket project in which I use my beloved (and often unused due to the price of big yarn) big needles! I wanted to make a blanket with some nice pink yarn I found on sale. I am using the seed stitch and am now rethinking this project because the seed stitch is kinda hard to do on already physically tiring knitting needles. I may restart and do a classic knit or knit/purl combo. We'll see. I still have it. (See below for more)

Head for size reference

 At the beginning of the school year in the fall, shortly after last summer I made my Mom buy me some beautiful and expensive yarn in New York before I head off to my semester in London! Feast your eyes on these abroad photos! I made this hat with this yarn. I still don't know if it's the right kind of yarn for a hat, because it's rather chunky, but that's ok! Chunky is nice for keeping my head warm, which is important. I made a classic cable hat for this project. I wanted to practice my cabling skills and create a practical piece for the colder weather. I have done both!

My dorm room in London! Isn't it fun?

Detail view

Big Ball of Yarn -> Blanket Part 2 (whoohoo!)

Hello, loyal reader. 'Tis I! Now that I've read a lot of Canterbury Tales I really know how to speak perfect Middle English, so don't get intimidated, ok?! Today you will see a series of photographs depicting a wild Sarit in her typical evening habitat. knitting in bed + watching TV. There is something so simple and comforting about pursuing this habit. However, it often makes me stay up late because I am just having too much of a blast. What are you gonna do, am I right? Additionally, these pictures do not have great lighting (when do they ever do?) and are just a wild time. As you may be able to see, I dyed some of my hair green since the photos in the last post. Additionally, (I really love using the word "additionally," don't I?) this blanket is significantly longer. In ADDITION to that last statement, I have added a word in this blanket! I have decided that just doing the rib stitch the whole way through is one way to make me very bored and I like making fun things and not boring things. So I decided I will intersperse the word "blanket" throughout this piece in order to keep myself interested in this sometimes arduous project and keep questions such as "what even is this?" and "how would you explain what you've made?" at bay. Due to a fun combination of summer time + an internship once a week + no paying job, I have been able to create much progress on this blanket. While I do not thrive in a structureless time frame (due to the rising feeling that I need to have control  in this world and work towards anything, I don't care, anything. Well, anything that is good, or at least not bad? Because I want to feel maybe I like have a purpose that is good?) it has helped me have a different perspective. Like now I have more time to work on this blanket and that is fun. I love knitting a lot!!!

"Blanket" word is brought to you by the knit one row + purl one row move and faire isle knitting. This is different than intarsia because I pull the yarn color throughout the piece, while intarsia is typically blocks of color. I think this is right. Anyway, this is so fun! On other blocks of color I'm going to write "Blanket" on them too. It'll be a whole bunch of "blankets!"

This says "Blanket." There is bad lighting. I promise you can read it. I think. 

it fits!

Big Ball of Yarn -> Blanket

Hello all. I am back. These pictures were taken a couple of weeks ago, but the project persists. For my birthday this year, my darling sibling hath gifted me a big ball of yarn. In the first photo below, I am providing my head as reference to how big this ball of yarn is. What to do such such a size, one my ask. One ask and one answers. I answer. I do declare to turn this ball of yarn into a life sized blanket. A blanket for this life sized human. 

 Does anyone remember that book about knitting called, Socks for Supper? That book was freaking amazing. It has a strong knitting theme and is also a book for children. Pushing that knitting agenda. That is the way. Anyway, I recommend you put that on your reading list. 

The game plan for this blanket is to use the rib stitch all the way through. I also forgot to tell you the best part about this ball is that it changes colors every couple of layers, so you'll be working on one color and then you'll get to see what the next color is. So fun! It's also a rather tricky yarn because its texture sometimes makes it so it gets stuck in certain things. For example, I will be trying to start a knit stitch and part of the yarn will come apart a bit or I'll accidentally put the needle in the wrong place. A fun challenge-- especially when I'm trying to knit fast. If I remember correctly I think I cast on like 130 or 180 stitches or so. I am too lazy to count. but it's a lot. There are too many stitches for the needle, so I have to scrunch it up. 

As always, enjoy these model poses below.