Log Cabin Baby Blanket: December 2006 Archives
It's interesting to me how you can take the same three colors, change their proportions in a knitted fabric, and have an entirely different look. This square resonates much differently with me than the first one did. I like seeing that much green and purple side by side.
All of you who read my first post on this project and suggested that it would be the easiest from the point of view of weaving in ends were exactly right! Only 6 ends to weave in for each square. It makes for nice and easy finishing as I go.
And the third square is now cast on. One more and I'll have a whole third of the blanket done!
Here's the very first square for the baby blanket. Cara is absolutely right about this log cabin square making stuff -- you can't make just one! Right after I finished this one (and I mean finished -- I even wove in all the ends), I cast on for square 2, which will have a purple center. These make for just about the most perfect mindless knitting. Just garter stitch but garter stitch that leads to a very satisfying result.
I think all that 3-Ply Wool that I brought back from Mountain Colors is likely to end up in a very large single log cabin square. I've turned all those little skeins into balls and I think I am going to just randomly grab balls out of a basket and knit onto the square. The only real question I need to face: how big should the starting square be? Some of my colors don't have much yardage and I'd like to use them more than once. I'm toying with actually just starting with a square that is about 1" x 1" just so that I can see a lot of color changing occurring in the center. Hmmmm...
The poll results for the log cabin baby blanket were as close as those mid-term elections in Virginia, Montana and Missouri, with the "T Keys" (#1) and "Random Squares" (#3) being the two pattern choices that were pretty much too close to separate. In fact, they also became difficult for me to decide between. The first one is kind of my own original sort of design, so it feels very personal. But the random squares are a bit simpler and require only two color changes (the squares for the key pattern would require a color change on every block). So in the interest of making sure that I could accomplish the project before the baby grows up and goes to college, I decided on the random squares.
The knitting of this square was surprisingly addicting for something that is mostly garter stitch. I was able to get all of this done on Friday and what little of Saturday I had to work in while I was getting ready to go on my trip.
The T Keys are not gone forever, however. In my mind it has morphed into a much larger project. Perhaps a full-sized afghan or a quilt for a king-sized bed? It would give me the chance to create more symmetry in the project if it were larger. Clearly a big project for the future.
