The Elijah Blanket

I recently finished a baby blanket for a friend's grandson. It turned out very well if I do say so myself! It measures about 28" by 38" so it's kinda small - but it only has a cast on of 120 stitches, and I just used my 14" needles instead of circs....it was originally supposed to be WAY smaller, but I got a little carried away. Grandma wanted him to have something little to carry around and chew on....but I told her I'll have to make him one of my baby feet cloths for THAT purpose - I wouldn't want him chewing on his blankie that took 18 hours to knit LOL!!! Besides, cotton would be a little easier on his gums than acrylic, dontcha think?
Anyway - here are the pics - I am SO glad it's finished - I get so bored knitting with the same color for too long LOL!! That's why you'll see a little pattern change above Elijah's name - I was planning to do "stripes" all the way got got VERY bored and so threw in a little variation, and it turns out I like the variation better than my original plan - I love it when things work out like that, don't you?

Mr. Brown meets the love of his life

Have you seen the “get your free skein of Disco yarn” posts floating around? I got mine….and I actually like the Disco yarn. Not too darned sure about the color – but hey! Free is free, right?

A word of advice…when you throw eyelashy yarns into your closet with the other “I’ll sort them out later and figure out a project too!” yarns…..make sure there are no hidden little creatures in there.

Like lint rollers.

You know, the ones that have layers and layers of tape wrapped around, and you roll them across whatever til it’s covered with dog hair and potato chip crumbs, then you peel off that layer of tape, and have a fresh new one right there – and you can do the NEXT square inch on your couch!

Well!!

I like these things – they’re cheap, they actually work (kinda like the ole “wrap the tape around your hand inside out” method that most of our mothers and grandmothers probably used. (Mine did (do/does) anyway!)

But I bought one a few weeks ago, and promptly misplaced it.

Little did I know that I threw it in the closet – right into my “I’ll sort them out later and figure out a project too” yarns……..*gasp* without it’s protective cover (aka wax paper)

When Mr. Brown went into the closet, apparently he found my little friend “LaRue Lint Remover”….and boy oh boy, did they ever hit it off!!!

I took a picture, but only one, it was getting a little risqué in there!!

Wonder what kind of kids they’ll have?!?

Elf name.....

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Patterns without pictures......

I really really have a hard time with patterns that are posted without pictures...I know sometimes people who design these cloths don't have the equipment (like a scanner or camera) to post a picture, but I REALLY have to be bored out of my mind before I attempt one of these pictureless pretties. I mean - how can I tell if I even want to spend a good 2 hours of my time knitting one of these up?!? I might HATE it or WORSE - I might love it and wish I had had that pattern last MONTH for momma's birthday or something!!!
Having said this - I have decided that I am going to knit ONE of these orphaned patterns a week...then post the picture and the link here! So! I present to you: my orphan pattern of the week:
And here is the URL!!!
http://www.woolworks.org/patterns/zigcloth.txt

I really like this pattern - it is WAY too big for my liking, but I would make it again - also with a bigger border :o)

But all in all - a NICE pattern, and like it says - "you'll have the pattern memorized very quickly!