Hemlock Ring Blanket
This was a really satisfying project. Once you get into the feather and fan pattern, every fifth row is a pattern row, and the rest is straight knitting. So once in awhile things would change up a bit, but most of the time it’s just movie knitting. Great for vacation, too. I started this in Oregon and finished it in Torrey, Utah, at the Women’s Music Festival.
The pattern is adapted from an old doily pattern, with a partial chart by Jared Flood of Brooklyn Tweed. The Rainey Sisters packaged Brooklyn Tweed’s chart along with some photos and errata and posted it here.
I did nothing original to this pattern, even down to choosing the same colorway of yarn. The neutral taupe-y brown just seemed perfect to me, and I love it. I did the Rainey Sisters crochet bind-off which is far less complicated, but if I’d had the photo of the knitted edging with me I might have done that instead, because it’s just beautiful, too. I knit to the end of the chart (row 70) rather than stopping at row 55, and might have even been able to get another repeat in in with the yarn I had left, but I played it safe and decided I didn’t really need it to be bigger. It’s 60″ in diameter and spanned the width of my queen-sized bed.
Details
Pattern: Hemlock Ring Blanket adapted by Jared Flood (errata by Susan Rainey)
Yarn: Cascade Ecological Wool, < 2 skeins, color #8063
Needles: Addi Turbo US10 (6mm)
Started: July 2, 2008
Finished: August 8, 2008
Comments 14
It’s just beautiful! And inspiring…I’m going to make one of those for my mother for Christmas with some cream Cascade Ecological Wool…can’t wait to cast on, but I have to finish WIP Wrestling for the Ravelympics first.
Posted 16 Aug 2008 at 12:52 pm ¶It’s really lovely! And it looks awesome on your bed, too, I hope you plan to leave it there. Can you bring it Tuesday? Or has everyone else already seen it?
Posted 16 Aug 2008 at 1:20 pm ¶Nice bed..
Posted 16 Aug 2008 at 2:11 pm ¶It looks great - and that’s a shitload of pins. That must have taken a while to do!
I’m still pondering “neutal”. LOL
Posted 16 Aug 2008 at 3:37 pm ¶It’s gorgeous!!
Posted 16 Aug 2008 at 4:42 pm ¶Cheryl ~ damn! What happened to my spell check?
Posted 16 Aug 2008 at 5:05 pm ¶It looks great! You definitely took more care in blocking than I did.
Posted 16 Aug 2008 at 6:47 pm ¶It’s gorgeous! I’m tempted. It may be a good winter project for me.
Posted 16 Aug 2008 at 7:46 pm ¶Beautiful. I really love this blanket and I agree with you that the color is perfect. Nice job.
Posted 16 Aug 2008 at 10:57 pm ¶Outstanding!!!!
Posted 18 Aug 2008 at 8:47 am ¶How beautiful is this? I really like the color & Heather’s right - I was also thinking how nice it looks on the bed…just needs a kitty curled up in the center
Posted 19 Aug 2008 at 5:35 am ¶WOW!!! Fabulous!! It’s gorgeous!!!
SO glad to get to see you & hug on you a bit before having to rush to the airport. You’ve got my number–keep in touch, ‘k?
I’m heading to Plurk you a bit now…heh.
xoxoxo
Posted 20 Aug 2008 at 8:15 am ¶Very pretty. Great color, too!
Posted 20 Aug 2008 at 9:13 am ¶It’s absolutely beautiful!!
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