January KH-KAL: Seamless blanket project! - Page 58

Woodi · 09-06-2009, 09:16 PM

Very very nice, Chj!....the brown looks black on my screen, but I can make out the teal, love it!

ArtLady1981 · 09-07-2009, 07:45 PM

Chj, very nice work!

Aren't LOG CABINS addicting? You cannot have too many blankets...but until I bumped into SEAMLESS blankets...I just didn't want to knit them unless DESPERATE!

chj · 09-08-2009, 01:47 PM

ArtLady - addicting is absolutely correct! These are great to knit while watching TV (you don't need to pay attention most of the time with straight knitting) and it's fun changing colors. I find myself drifting off-pattern because I'll get to thinking I'd like a different color here or not so much of that color there... so I change up as I go. It's like painting or something. I've never been artistic, but I can get creative with these. And they are unique when you're done. I can't wait to get to it at the end of the day. I'm having fun, for sure!!

sakura-panda · 09-11-2009, 03:15 AM

I have an update.

I finished another log!

I don't know what's going to happen with it now. I usually work on it while DH and I watch TV together in the evening, but he has been moved to third shift. I added the new color just before he started, knit a couple of rows, and haven't picked it up since.

ArtLady1981 · 09-11-2009, 06:05 AM

Your log cabin looks so nice and even! Great work! Keep plugging away!

chj · 09-11-2009, 12:38 PM

Yay sakura-panda - keep up the good work!

Woodi · 09-11-2009, 06:32 PM

Katie, it's beautiful. I love the colors. I wish you could keep knitting on it, just to show us! Do you absolutely NEED your hubby to sit beside you for you to knit? .....is he your creative muse?...or is it just that you don't watch TV when you're alone. (I know, none of my business.....just curious)

sakura-panda · 09-11-2009, 07:47 PM

Thanks for the kind words.

Little web photos are so forgiving -- there's lots of little oopsies in that blanket -- mostly because I'm inconsistent about which side I bind off and pick up on. I think I've got every combination in there.

Originally Posted by Woodi

Katie, it's beautiful. I love the colors. I wish you could keep knitting on it, just to show us! Do you absolutely NEED your hubby to sit beside you for you to knit? .....is he your creative muse?...or is it just that you don't watch TV when you're alone. (I know, none of my business.....just curious)

I don't need him, but knitting is my second hobby. I'm a scrapbooker that knits, so when he is gone, I scrapbook. I knit on my own sometimes, but it's harder to find time and space to scrapbook, so I do that when I can and then knit when I can't.

This morning he told me that he is probably going to be back on first shift in a couple of weeks. Hockey season starts soon and I think this year I'm going to stay up and watch more games.

I'd love to finish that blanket by the end of the year!

chj · 10-05-2009, 12:02 AM

Here's my log cabin #2, done finally - it's the baby-sized, though I took some liberties and changed up the pattern a bit. It came out about 40" x 48", on size 8 needles with worsted weight. Hard to tell by the pictures, but that's chocolate brown, teal, yellow, and an off white. I love the way it turned out.

luvmykid28 · 10-05-2009, 02:31 AM

Looks great CHJ!!! Good work.