365 Blanket

There is a Ravelry group that got started up to knit all the patterns from this book. I decided to make mine as swatches and sew them into a blanket.

I started this project on the 1st of the month like the rest of the group, but then realized that I used the wrong needles and all my swatches were much too large. So, I had to restart. I also realized I should probably blog about it on this poor neglected site. I don't know that I will update every single day, but I will at least weekly.

I am starting each month's section with a square that has the abbreviation for that month on it.
So here are the squares for Jan. and the 1st. They aren't anything too special just done in plain cream yarn.



You can't see the letters as well as I would like but this one says JAN for January.



This is the January 1st square in a pattern called Basket Rib. Definitely not a favorite of mine.

Startitis

I have a major case of startitis right now. I can't seem to help wanting to start new projects all the time. I think part of it has to do with the fact that most of my projects are in a boring stage.

I have a dress for Aubrey with cute little owl cable things at the bottom. I am in the knit plain until skirt is long enough stage. When did Aubrey get so freaking tall?! It's taking forever! It's empire waisted though so once I get through the skirt I am almost done. I just have to decide on what to do with the sleeves. The original that I am copying has little cap sleeves, but I am thinking of doing sleeves down to her elbows and doing one of the little owl cables on those too.

I have a snowflake afghan that I wanted to have done for Christmas *cough* yeah right *cough*. I memorized the pattern for that a while a go and am now in the repeat until infinity stage. Ok, so it's really repeat until you have 98 but boy does that seem like a lot.

I have Aubrey's Christmas reindeer sweater. I have no idea why I stalled out on that one. It's colorwork, and at the point I am at now every row is different. I guess I just abandoned it in favor of shiny new projects. (see above owl dress)

And as if that isn't enough, yesterday I went and bought yarn to start a new sweater from the new Interweave Knits. I am trying to be good and not start it until I finish at least the skirt part of the dress, but it is calling my name! Click Here See how pretty it is! I am being daring and doing it in a gold/mustard color. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, and I'm not sure if it will look good on me when all is said and done. But I keep being drawn to things on Ravelry that are gold/mustard, so I decided to just go for it.