Our new little one is almost one (1) years old! As you know, I made her a baby blanket quite sometime ago. Yes, I didn't give it to her yet because I wanted her to be big enough to actually enjoy it; so, it's really going to be her Christmas gift this year.🎄🎅☃️
Since I've been hanging onto it, I saw another pattern very similar to the one I made but with a border and I thought: Hmmmm .... 🤔 I wonder what her blanket would look like if I added a border ... 🤔
Looking through all of my needles and cables, I realized that I didn't have enough cables to circumambulate her blanket to do the border. So, I went on-line to figure out which needle set I was going to "add" onto with additional cables. Since I used my Denise needles to make her blanket, I naturally went to their site first to price out everything I would need. Then, I went to my next favorite needle seller, Handsome Fibers, to see how much it would cost to get extra long needles for my Chiagoo set. The price difference wasn't much but, if I could get a discount on one of them then ... 😉 ... Fortunately for me, Denise had an anniversary sale that not only allowed me to get the needed cables and extenders but a few other things too (including another short set that I've been wanting (I found that I like to use 2 different colours for my needles so I know which was the "right"/right side v.s. the "wrong"/left side when I knit; it's unconventional but it's easier for me to remember where I last left off, plus, it's fun and makes me smile at all the lovely colours! 😋)
As soon as I got my new needles & accessories, I pulled out her blanket and proceeded to cast on her blanket. Initially, I was stunned when I realized how big I actually made it (you never realize how L-A-R-G-E it is until you have to pick up a zillion stitches!) but, once I finished casting on and doing the initial row, her border went on quickly. I also thought it was going to take a lot of yarn to do the border since it was so huge but, surprisingly, it took very little yarn. Here's her (final) finished blanket - it reminds me of a stained glass window 😍:
I hope she loves it now that she's big enough to figure out how to "jump" from colour to colour!😉🤞
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