Notes
Knit on 3.75mm with scrap and orphan stash yarn fingering weight yarns held doubled. Please see Choosing colours for details on that process. The blanket is primarily green and purple (aka garden floral).
This is a project that needs just a bit of attention to knit. It is the first project without Shadow cat on my lap. It’s proving a bit challenging to work in these early days of grief; I forget to slip the first stitch or I completely loose count and neglect to work the shaping. I’m remembering working most of these scrap yarns with him, and they’re good memories.
Dot first joined us as a foster kitten and she adopted my husband and became our forever cat in August 2019. She’s only started sitting on my lap recently. It’s wonderful and different for both of us.
Choosing colours
Will use 3 coin tosses to determine each hexagon, no more than 3 of same type in a row allowed, in that case either shift to next column or new toss.
- Coin 1: greens (heads) or “garden floral” (tails). I may work two-toned hexagons, see coin toss 3 (if 3, this is starting colour).
- Coin 2: hold same yarn tog if possible (heads) or marled (tails).
- Coin 3: is it a full hexagon (heads) or will I switch colors halfway (tails).
Hopefully I can make this look planned and not like my actual semi-neglected garden.
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progress!
This blanket won’t knit itself. My goal is one hexagon a week. Dot is thrilled that for the moment we can share it. I am finding it a little boring and hard to get back into. Thankfully there’s Midsomer on the DVR.
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dusted off, knit more
Finished column 5! Finally. While I haven’t been knitting on it as much as before, I use it nightly when we sit at the couch. Sometimes forgetting and sitting on the needles.
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