I forgot to mention the very obvious fact that in blanket #149 every third row is bright pink. This is shetland wool from a cone that I could not resist buying recently despite my reservations about bright colours. The cone weighed exactly 500 grams, including the weight of the cone. The label inside says Uppingham Yarns shetland wool. The yarn is quite thin for 4 ply weight and not at all soft. It is fine for the blankets, but too thin if you put it with another thin 4 ply, for example from the Sheila Duggie sweater. I weighed it again after I finished the blanket. Exactly 150 gr had been used, and that is useful information. If I want to use the same 4 ply yarn every third row I will need at least 150 gr but probably less than 200 gr.
Another old nice favourite that went into the blanket is this Jaeger Wool Silk in a 20 gr ball.
And here is my Cabbage Patch doll dressed in the baby jacket. This is the very first one that I bought, and I think the oldest. She is smaller than more recent ones. I love her dread locks and the way you can style them with your fingers. She is sitting on my Kaffe Fassett star cushion next to some unravelled Noro Kureyon. She no longer needs the jacket since I found some well fitting doll's clothes for her in a charity shop. Regrettably she is not available for a photo session in her new outfit right now. The idea was that I should knit or crochet or sew clothes for my dolls, but all my yarn is too precious for dolls. I am considering buying some especially.
Blogger is playing with me, or I don't understand it, so I will add two pictures here that should have gone in the previous post:
My knitting got derailed when I went away on a short holiday in May. I stopped working on the Noro Blossom blanket - because it was nearing completion and I had to work out what to do next. I took my bus knitting with me, a sock yarn sweater that I have not written about, and I have not touched it either since I came back.
I have been knitting on the standard blankets the whole time. I finished blanket #148 and started #149. In a way it is comforting to do just knitting that you don't have to think about, but now I do want to use my brain as well, and I have gone back to the Noro Blossom blanket.
But I will write about blanket #149. This is in pale pastel colours, in double knitting weight, the kind of blanket that I knit time and time again and that is pleasurable each time. There is nothing much to say about it. (The holes that you can see in the picture will disappear when the ends are fastened.)
The first charity shop that I unravelled is a recent purchase. I wanted a pale woollen 4 ply yarn, and this seemed to fit the bill. It appears to be machine knitted with a label saying Sheila Duggie. The off white yarn is a bit too thin, slightly unevenly spun with a fleck of the same colour. I think it is wool, it behaves and it feels like wool. I like the flower decoration and the stitch around the shoulders. I could not work out how it was put together. The neckband and the ribbing around the bottom and the wrists had been knitted together, but I could not find an end to start unravelling, so I had to resort to cutting. Otherwise it was no trouble at all.
The second garment was a baby cardigan knitted in a very nice pale blue yarn, probably a wool blend. I bought it for one of my Cabbage Patch dolls which came without clothes. Although loosely knitted this was not so easy to unravel either because the ends had been very thoroughly fastened.
And this is one of the vintage yarns used - Patons Fuzzy Wuzzy - an angora wool blend probably from the 1970s.
Blogger is playing with me, or I don't understand it, so I will add two pictures here that should have gone in the previous post:
