Log Cabin Baby Blankie WIP
This is a Work in Progress (WIP) for a baby due in December. My friend's only request was rainbow colors. Luckily, I saw the Mason Dixon Knitting book right after buying some of the yarn. I'm using a bit of everything in this project, but the majority of the yarns are Wool-Ease and Encore, both wool acrylic blends, because: I liked the colors; I thought they were pretty soft; they're washable; and they won't break the bank. The other yarns are superwash wools (Cascade 220, Bazic Wool) and a couple of thrifted acrylics because I really wanted the colors. Overall, I think it will be soft and snuggly and very cheerful. Things I learned about myself on this project: I'm not a yarn snob, I'm a color snob; I switch around how I pick up stitches (sometimes I go in through the back of the stitch to leave a ridge); I don't mind inconsistencies; I even make mistakes with garter stitch.
25 Comments:
That is just beautiful. I would never have thought of using log cabin patches for a knitted blanket. I have seen a beautiful cushion made up of "patchwork" pieces which have all been knitted. It looked great.
this is so beautiful. it makes me want to take up knitting again. what a great gift!
Gorgeous! Your friend (and their baby) is SO lucky because that is one fabulous gift!
Wow!! What a fabulous gift!
Very cool!
I'm sure it will be a treausered blankie, brilliant colours, just what a babe needs.
You really have an amazing eye for color! I love this new blanket!
I have never seen a knitted log cabin quilt. that is really nice!
So beautiful. I haven't a clue how to knit or crochet, but it is awesome.
I meant blanket, not quilt. Oops.
Wow, I love the colours, great work!
I love the way you incorporated the variegated yarn. Variegated yarn looks so wonderful and full of possibilities in the skien, but sometimes it just looks weird and cheap in a finished piece. You've created a shimmery rainbow effect with it that absolutely works!
Oh my gosh - first a colourful stripy afghan and then a rainbow log cabin blankie? Too much, too much! I am such a sucker fo colour overload; this is so perfectly cheerful. Also really like the way you've split the warm and cool colours.
So amazing! The colours are great...I love it! Lucky lucky bebe!
Thank you kind folks for all the nice comments. I'm really having fun with the colors. A simple garter stitch works well with my scattered mama brain. I haven't done anything original here, except pick my yarns. The pattern and the color inspiration come from the Mason Dixon Knitting book. There are a couple of rainbow examples in it, both with warm and cool colors separated. The more adult version uses muted tones and cotton yarn--it's quite beautiful. I also like the more abstracted log cabins that they have. Check it out.
I'm a color snob, too. The quilt is gorgeous! I love the Mason Dixon Knitting book, it's one of the most useful (and funny) ever.
What a brilliant idea! I love all the happy colors.
LOVE it!!! Great look...
I had rainbow braces (I'd say "suspenders" but want to avoid confusing any of your potential British readers) when I was a kid. And I wore them. I also had a bunch of those translucent decals with rainbows and unicorns and such, stuck on windows throughout the house. Didn't you? That, and the fact that I saw a real rainbow almost everyday in the summer, after one of the short but intense Colorado thunderstorms, makes it so that rainbows make me feel like a kid.
Goodness gracious girlfriend. This is all making me want to stop what I'm doing and pick up some yarn. Gorgeous.
Really gorgeous - beautiful colours!
I love love the colors in this quilt. It's even more beautiful up close in real life. I wish I were pregnant, I'd ask for a duplicate! On second thought, I'll skip the whole 10 month ordeal and just look at the photo online when I want to remember the gorgeous colors!
chardgirl
The colors in this are fabulous! What a gorgeous blanket this is going to be.
Holy cow, that's gorgeous. You keep seriously making me want to buy yarn! Don't you know I already have a fabric problem???
Gorgeous!!!! Isn't it a brilliant pattern? The color combo possibilities boggle the mind. Your choice of colors is bright, sunny and perfect!
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