{"id":352,"date":"2009-06-27T10:01:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=352"},"modified":"2009-07-05T10:24:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T17:24:43","slug":"a-blanket-for-my-nephew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2009\/06\/27\/a-blanket-for-my-nephew\/","title":{"rendered":"a blanket for my nephew"},"content":{"rendered":"

My sister gave birth to a son, the first of “the next generation” on my side of the family. Baby JWS was born June 26th, 8 lbs 12 oz. From the pictures my family has sent, I can tell he is super-cute and doted on by his parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. I am looking forward to meeting him in person later in July. Welcome, baby J!<\/p>\n

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The last few months I’ve been knitting a colorful blanket for him. It’s the Mitered Square Blanket from Mason-Dixon Knitting<\/a> by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne. The first stage of this project was choosing the colors – I spent several afternoons at the Knit Shop, sorting through piles of Berroco Comfort trying to narrow it down to 8 colors. The blanket is made up of 36 squares, arranged in 9 blocks of 4. (Basically, it’s a quilt, but knitted.) Each square has 2 colors and I knit each of 28 unique combinations, plus some duplicates. Each block of 4 contains all 8 colors – arranging them was like a puzzle.<\/p>\n

The not-so-fun part, as every knitter knows, was weaving in all those ends on the back. But, I was planning to back it with fabric so they didn’t need to be hidden, just secured to keep the blanket from unraveling. I found a stretchy, rib-knit fabric to make the backing and I tacked it at the corner of each square.<\/p>\n

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I’m very happy with how the blanket came out – it’s nice and contrasty for J’s early vision development. He was born into a heat wave but once the weather cools down I hope it will carry him through the first of many winters cozy and snuggly.<\/p>\n

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