Etherknitter: NaPoMoJo #14 2018

Kinda blew the numbering on the last post (yesterday). Fixed. Don't go back and read it again.

The young staff are baby booming. It is a remarkable stream of infants. Some need knitted objects. Some don't. I'm drowning in those who do.

I saw the Bounce baby blanket, and liked the pattern. Unfortunately, the hand-dyed kit was selling for ~$140. Of course I have a great deal of respect for the amount of time, energy, and cost associated with hand-dyed yarn. But I could not spend that much dinero on a baby blanket. I went to Webs to color-pick Cascade 220 superwash. With the addition of a main color (MC), I could get two blankets out of one set of colors. The cost was something less than half, so, yes, two for the price of one.

The first one was a sequence of 10 colors, reversed in the middle, and a honking number of ends to weave in. It was well-received by the mom. So when another baby rolled around, I had to do it again. This time, to halve the ends, I knit the colors in stripes of two each. So instead of one-one-one-one-one x 20 etc., it was two-two-two x 10. Not quite half the ends, but close. By the time it was done, I wanted to stick the proverbial needles in my eyes. I could barely finish the last color. But I did.

I haven't blocked that one yet. You will have to wait. But I have blocking pix of the first one. Do know that the quintessential problem with being a Yankee, is that I STILL have enough of the contrast colors to knit ANOTHER BABY BLANKETY BLANK. Which is how it has become known around these parts. It will have to be a different pattern. I'm betting they don't even make strait jackets anymore, which is what I would need if I did it again.