Diane's latest baby gift!
These Moderne Baby Blankets are in the making.
Diane is using Brown’s Sheep’s Cotton Fleece for this baby gift.
And Marsha is also using Brown’s Cotton Fleece and she is using an accent novelty yarn in each block.
Marsha's Baby Gift
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The Joseph’s Blankie of Many Colors – I started this blanket with my living room in mind…and then I received a lovely gift from my friend celebrating our 50 years of friendship. I’d like to think friends since the womb, thus making me much younger than I am…but it was in grammar school on the Plains of Eastern Colorado that our paths crossed. I was so moved by her gift that I thought she should have this log cabin blanket. I pulled it out of its UFO spot, finished it and sent it on. Recently Mary told me that her husband (we all went to high school together) was bragging to some of his co-workers about it…and you know that glaze that sometimes comes over a non-knitter’s eyes…well Charlie experienced it! Sure made my heart happy that Charlie likes the blanket as well as Mary.
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Peg and "Joseph's Blanket of Many Colors"
Peg had a lot fun knitting this blanket, another Log Cabin version from Mason-Dixon Knitting, as a baby gift. It’s great how she offset the lights and darks…and she was able to use a lot of yarns from her personal stash.
Tomorrow I’ll share the one I did that was going to be for me…and then it became a gift for a life-long friend.
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Nina and her granddaughter and Moderne Baby Blanket
The book Mason-Dixon Knitting by Kay Gardiner and Ann Meador Shayne (friends and business partners because of the internet) was released in 2006 and has been the inspiration for many log cabin blankets to be knit. I have knit two – one for my youngest sister’s child and one for my lifelong friend Mary…friends since we were 12. And I have participated in many as we Skein Lane knitters have knit for the arrival of new babies within the groups. The joy and beauty of all them is that even though the design is simple, each one looks different. It’s all about fibers and colors. So, let’s take a look at few of them over the next few days. The most recent completion is one that Nina knit using Sugar ‘n Cream yarn…one of the cheaper and great cotton yarns. She edged the blanket with stockinette which rolls back over the body. This edge is different than the design from Mason-Dixon…and all the better..it’s about being inspired by books and patterns that we see. And then we can take off!
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It was great to see Ellen this past week. She has a very busy schedule with two near-teen daughters, a husband, and she is in school. She has been studying so that she can enter into a nursing program…and this moment she is eagerly awaiting to hear back from she has applied for nursing school. In the midst of this full schedule she knits. Her favorite knit projects include lace designs and aran designs.
And my heart was delighted as Ellen and Lucy met! What a good girl this pup is…what great knitting friends.
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Kimberly has returned from her travels to Italy…and many of us feel as though we were there….she showered us with photos of the travels that she and her husband had while they were gone…what a wonderful way to keep us plugged in…and easy for us to plug in with her upon her return.
Before our appointed knitting hour on Friday, Kimberly came to meet Lucy…you see, she is really an animal lover (like many of us)…and most of the group had already met Lucy. Well check out this meeting.
Lucy and Kimberly
And then Lucy met Ellen and that photo is coming in the next post.
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Connie knit this pig for her niece’s child. She was inspired by Kimberly and Merle. Be sure to check out the previous two posts.
Dad and the pig
Connie w/niece's family and pig
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Merle - The Piglet is done!
Merle had so much fun knitting this pig for her nephew.
And here's Abel with his pig
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Kimberly - the inspirer!
Last year Kimberly started a pig “farm”. She knit the pig for Matthew, a special boy in her life. This pig pattern is featured in Knitted Toys by Fiona McTague. Kimberly’s rendition of the knit pig inspired Merle to knit a pig for her nephew…then Connie knit one for her nephew.
Here’s Matthew!
Matthew and his pig
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For this sweater from Knit One Below Jean used the recommended yarn, Nashua Handknits Creative Focus Worsted. It was a fun project….I think she started this project right after Stitches West 2009. I know she enjoyed knitting it!
Ccming next: The Tattersall Scarf…..and then the piglets!
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