Tardis the 3rd

After having one of these blankets sitting looking decorative for so long, and another one on and off the needles, because the yarn was too scratchy and re-purposed for the giant needle adventure I finally cast on again.

CO was 133 stitches, allow for 8 stitches of garter along the border.
I knit 16 rows of garter, with the corners being seed or moss stitch depending on your definition of either stitch, I find this helps the corners lie flat naturally, and it gives a slight visual interest as well.



Then 3 rows of stockinette stitch to get moving into the overall pattern. Now the lines of the Tardis were meant to be black, my pattern has them as black, but with the black backing I thought it would lose something, and I had dark and light grey.

I spent Sunday knitting this sucker, and did about 40 rows, I think it looks awesome and want to keep it for myself, but it just means I get to do another one.

One of my main problems I think with the other two that I have previously worked on is that there is all of the colour work on the outside of tardis, the starry night effect if you will, and while this is GORGEOUS, I do not think I have the patience for it. I really wish I did as the overall effect is stunning, but it is honestly just not for me, and I Think you can have an equally stunning blanket without it.

There is a verigated yarn that is grey and black that I would love to try out for my next one as the 'background colour' and I think it might just have the effect I am looking for, without the added stress.

This is what it looks like as of 04/05/2015...and I am so happy! It is just under 50% done, and I have left it out for the week so hopefully some determination and some love and it will be done quite soon. All the ends. At any given moment it has minimum 10 balls of yarn attached and at most about 31, I think is how many are attached right now. I may go mad, but at least my friend will be happy.

This is getting so close, I am so excited. I am at 72% complete. But did have to start another one because two friends are expecting bambino's on the same day. So exciting, and yet so crazy. The other one is at 55% done, but you can read about the process of that one on a different blog post. I have to keep knitting, I may go insane, but I have to keep going.



And this my friends is the back...yes it does actually look like that and it keeps getting worse. Unless I have an ends weaving session in which case it gets nicer again. WOO HOO.







May 18, 2015, this is off the needles the weaving has begun, and the insanity has started. The goal here is to get a picture of the two blankets side by side, so that we all think we are seeing double before I send them off to their new homes, this failed. One blanket has left, and this is on the finishing pile, as the ends are being woven in as we speak.

August 16, 2015, all of the ends are woven in and it has been dropped off at its new home, slightly over due but the high of getting it finished finished brings more joy than one can imagine.

Here it is all boxed up: