I've got quite a few finished projects to talk about!
And the weddings are all wed, so I can get to talking.
The first finished, and almost the last given, is this lovely square throw. Photo maybe not the best, but listen people, you run out of ways to photograph a blanket and you want to mix it up a little, and sometimes you don't hit it out of the park, but I think you can get the idea!
I chose traditional wedding ivory and used a wool/acrylic blend so the happy couple won't need to worry about washing instructions, or finding a place to dry a blanket in their Brooklyn apartment with curious cats. This blanket was a breeze from start to finish, so enjoyable to knit that I made a second one, which has already appeared in an earlier post here. I went in a totally different direction with the second iteration, making it in grey and giving it a striped border. I love that one, but I also love the simplicity of this one. Both have the central motif that suggests a compass rose to me, which seems an auspicious symbol for a newly married couple. Also I love the bobbles, and the simplicity of the eyelet rows for the border that give the blanket a vintage feel. Yay for Steve and Fran and I wish we could have been at what was, from all accounts, a most lovely wedding full of thoughtful touches.
And since I'm attempting to feature these wedding blankets, but also play catch up, thrown in at the bottom is this little guy:
He's from the Anna Hrachovec's book Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi. Her patterns are great go-tos for quick cute knits, and he was a birthday present for a friend of mine who just turned 4! Congrats Graham! There really isn't anything to indicated scale in this photo, but lets just say he's as big as a large grape. Like, one of the big dark purple dusty grapes that are full of seeds.
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