Rainbow Baby Blanket

Pattern/Technique: Self drafted. Cast on 100 stitches in a waste color, then knit 38 rows of each rainbow panel.

Materials: US 10.5 knitting needle

1 skein each of Knit Picks Chroma Twist Bulky in the following colors: Red Velvet, Get your Neon, Weather Vane, Hollyhock, Lupine, Surf’s Up, Lake Front

Lessons/Notes: I was originally going to edge this blanket in a dark grey, but opted to not do that out of concern that the edging yarn might differentially stretch/shrink vs. the main blanket with usage and washing.

Because I cast on with waste yarn and used the entire ball of red for the first section, I ended up using some waste Get Your Neon to bind off along the red section. It’s a little different tonally than Red Velvet because it includes orange, but still looked pretty nice.

What I'd do differently: The color of this yarn is lovely, but in the future I would probably not use a handwash yarn for a baby blanket given its impracticalities for new parents.

Care: Hand wash, dry flat

Guernsey Wrap

I was updating projects in Ravelry and boy howdy I knit with a lot of grey. In fact, I originally started this scarf in grey using KnitPicks Simply Alpaca but the halo on the fiber was fighting a little too much with the textured panels. On attempt no. 2 I went with a bright blue (a little reminiscent of Iroshizuku Kon Peki, no?) instead, which proved a most solid decision. I decided to make a little collage of the FO but the effect was subtler than anticipated - it almost looks like a single picture, if not for that bottom row of ribbing. Ah well, it’s a feature, not a bug. ;)

Pattern: Guernsey Wrap by Brooklyn Tweed; made in KnitPicks Provincial Tweed

New skills: Sewn bind off

Lessons: Sewn bind offs are superbly useful! I have a hard time making bind offs match the stretchiness of my cast-on edge (always either too tight or too stretchy) and this technique provided a uniform appearance & stretch.

Provincial Tweed seemed to be a little thinner than a true worsted weight, resulting in a fabric that was a little looser than anticipated, but the softness is lovely.

What I'd do differently: I'd probably use a colorway that's a little simpler (without the tweed neps or subtle marling) to really let the textures shine.