I have finished 17 squares of my Flower Blanket, rejiggled the pattern (again) and done some sewing up!
The squares have taken over as my train knitting – on a knitpicks circular needle (ideal on a crowded train and for leaving fellow commuter’s eyes in their sockets!) I can get one striped or one moss stitchy square done in a day’s commute (more if the train is running late – hurrah for late trains! 😆 )
The intarsia flowers are WAY too much grief do anywhere other than the sofa.
Look at my accumulated detritus associated with these flowers! Nowhere for Ben or a cat to sit!
I do save my lovely Signature needles to do these though 🙂
Want to see some of the bobbiny action?
This is probably the most detailed square, but one of the plainest to knit. It’s plain to knit because I’m adding all the details with Swiss embroidery – it feels like cheating somehow …
Half way through the embroidery…
Want to see the other two flowers?
The lilac around the centre is Swissed on this one…
And then there’s this one…
I think it’s too plain. I’m gonna embroider some silver around the centre I think…
Now a boring bit…
I noticed another error in my layout – if you looked at a vertical strip it had two flowers with lilac petals in the same strip!
Another (yawn) version of the layout here…version 3.1. I promise. This is the last revision. I could waste hours jiggling this – I want to knit! 🙂
And the obligatory key to match…
So do you want to see exactly how far I’ve got??
Wanna see the strips sewn up?
OK…as you’ve been patient!
It does seem a little daunting at the moment…this picture kinda sums up the way the scale of this blanket goes on and on out of sight!
Wow it’s looking great. I am slightly concerned by the amount of attention to detail going into the chart production. It’s the kind of thing usually associated with twitching and manic looks. Or maybe that’s just me.
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It’s looking great so far, and definitely a good idea to sew up as you go along.
It’s looking fab!
On one hand I hate you because you have totally shamed me on the whole flower power blanket thing, but on the other hand you are a genius for pointing out I can add extras without adding several more bobbins. Swiss darning….. why did I not think of this. I must have been concussed from the amount of noise the bobbins clacking together made.
That is looking really pretty. good idea to sew them together as you go.
It’s looking good – I sew as much as I knit, so I would use the Swiss darning/embellishment method too!