Making It - Monday

The Prayer Blanket is finished and delivered (in 5 days)! The blanket is based on Meredith's Easy Baby Blanket. It's alternating stockinette squares with a seed stitch border. It was knit using Yarn Bee Sweet Delight Baby in Baby Blue and Baby Blue Camo (held double and knit on size 11 needles). The finished size was 39"x33". My two boys tried it out and deemed it comfy and cozy.

Just for kicks, I added up the number of stitches and yards in the blanket. Including casting on and binding off, there are 18,920 stitches in the blanket and 1,262 yards of yarn were used!


Because I had some left over yarn (of both colors), and I needed to knit a cardigan for a new cousin, I cast on for this. I'm knitting the 12 month size on size 10 needle (a couple of sizes larger than required so I could get gauge) with the Baby Blue colorway. This cardi needs to be completed by this Thursday, so I'd better get moving! I cast on for this project on Saturday, and am on the fourth of six lace repeats on the lower half of the sweater.


My January mittens are coming along. Photos coming soon. I've completed the left mitten and I'm only a few rows past the cuff on the right one. Hopefully, after the baby knitting, I can return to them and finish them in January!