Blanket

My boyfriends grandmother was kind enough to give me her leftover yarn from her knitting time. And by leftovers she mean a huge bag with lots of bundles. So many that I decided to make a blanket out of it.

The design is very simple, as I am still not the goddess of knitting, although that would be cool if that was the case.
Also I decided to keep it simple as I am not knitting every day, so would like something easy I can just pick up whenever I feel like it.

The colors I got was blue, purple, pink, white, green and yellow, i decided to pair them and knit with a double thread to make sure the blanket would be thick enough. I paired blue and purple, white with pink and green with yellow.

I knit in squares measuring 20 cm or 7.9 inches and uses a size 4 in needles. In Denmark, where I am from we use the metric system, so that is why my measurement is in cm's and my inches may have odd numbers.

After knitting the first three squares, I was starting to think in what order should I arrange them? One would think that was something I should have thought of first, but nah! I started to draw a bit and see what I could come up with, my boyfriend even came with a suggestion too.

For now this is the idea I prefer the most, so I will probably stick with that. The only thing I haven't decided yet is, if I should cover the back with a piece of fabric.
In order to make a bit diversity in the squares I will knit regularly and purl, but I haven't decided how many I should do that with.

I am very excited for the end result, as this is a big project for me, even though I know it's simple. But never made a blanket before, so this will be fun!

Knitting

I think the title says it all. With the label function all the things that concerns knitting will be found there, that way, if you need to find something from an earlier post, it will be much easier for you to find.


I was never the big knitter, even though my mom tried to teach me a few times. Until one day, I felt like making a pair of socks! And of course, it wasn't just the regular pair of socks, no no. It had to be knee socks. So not only did my mom had to teach me all the basic stuff, she also had to teach me to knit on 4 needles, take in a stitch, make a heal and add new thread.

Well as a first time knitter working with 4 needles was just impossible so I used a circular needle, but later on there was no escape, I had to use the 4 needles. Oddly enough, I managed to get it set on two, and my poor mom just shook her head, and had a hard time helping me when I needed her to.

The end result was these colorful socks, and I am grateful that my mom took her patience with me. They are flawed, but it was a learning experience. I think the biggest flaw, is that the color doesn't match on them. That would have made them even prettier. But they are done, and I am actually quite proud of them.

Now the pattern for these socks are not difficult, you just use a regular pattern for socks, and then just add the extra length to it. The only "difficult" part is to figure out how many stitches you need to remove when you get to the lower part, and where. Because you can't just take them off all at the same place, that will give the socks a really strange shape. What I did was I knitted 5 rows and then took 4 stitches off, 2 in the beginning and 2 in the end.

Next time I will make a pair, I will share the pattern with you, but right now it's a mess and I need to re-write it. As I had to change a few things while I was knitting them.

So what will happen in my creative corner?

Anything!!!
This is where I get to share all my creative stuff with family, friends and you!

This will be a whole new experience for me, as I normally tend to be a very private person, but being so far away from family and my danish friends this was the best idea I could think of. I don't like using Facebook and not many of my friends use Google+, so a blog became my alternative.

Like I mentioned in my first two lines, anything can and will happen in this blog, and it will cover a very wide area. There will be post about sewing, knitting, gardening, cooking, baking, drawings and so on and so forth. Basically anything I thing is creative, I will share with you.

I realize that can make things a bit chaotic for you as a reader, but, I will be tagging all my posts so they will be organized under a main topic. For instant, when I post about knitting, I will make a tag called knitting and you can click on that and find all my knitting posts. So even if my main page may be a bit chaotic, there will be order.

Also I am quite aware that my layout is very generic, that will change. I just need to find THE right picture and such. But for now, I hope you can enjoy the layout as much as I do.