Baby blanket knitting update

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"#crafts #knitting baby blankieprogress 

Well at least something good has come out of being sick.  I've gotten some of my baby blankie done

Knitting update 08.03.2012

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"Finally decreasing!"

This is the baby blanket i started back in May... its been a rather hectic couple of months (getting married, the honeymoon and the start of dragonboat season) made it rather difficult to get any knitting done.. and then comes the Olympics where I come home from practice/work and plop down to watch a couple of hours of TV every night because well who doesnt want to watch the olympics?  I've finally "found" some time to knit.  This is for a baby being born in September -- i have plenty of time, the thing is, I need to make a 2nd one so, I need to get this one done ASAP!

Knitting project update 04.16.2012

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"#knittingproject "

So after thinking about making and actually finishing my scarf, i decided with the slew of babies showing up at work and amongst my friends that I would knit a baby blankie or 2 for people.  I found the simplest diagonal baby blanket on ravelry and downloaded the pattern.  This is 1 of 2 blankets that i'm working on, same pattern similar color.. yes i love blue :)  too bad i still dont know if the babies these are intended for are little boys or girls.. oh wells!  Their respective parents just better appreciate the baby blanket(s) oh and 1 of them has to be completed before May 5th.  So recently in all my non-existent spare time i've been working on baby blankets.. so that I will have at least 1 of them done.  Eeks! thats only what?  3 weeks away?

knitting project picture 2

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"So cold at the national mall waitin for cherry blossom 10 miler to finish #cherryblossomrace"

So while the fiance and friends ran the cherry blossom race that I ended up not signing up for back in December because of the broken foot.. i knitted, read a bit, stared out into the cloudy cold sky... I started this project because I have quiet a few friends/co-workers that recently announced their pregnancy.. so i figured i should knit them baby blankets.  But first I needed to learn how to knit the blankets, and figure out which pattern to choose, etc!  So this was a really easy pattern that I found on ravlery--and since this required circle needles, and I dont own a pair I had to obtain a pair.  The pattern uses the Lion brand Pound of love yarn which i found to be too scratchy, so i picked the Lion brand Vanna label but dont quite like the texture either.   So its probably back to the drawing board for yarns but I do like the pattern and will be using it.    Here its about maybe 1/8 done (so about 20 stitches on this row?)  I have to go to about 209 stitches.. so hopefully I will have this done before my friend comes down in May.  AND have a color yarn picked out since she's not told me if its a boy or girl...

random babbles: new knitting project

new knitting project

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"New knitting project"