Warm up America Afghan

I'm republishing an earlier post after some edits:

I got the idea from my Stitch and Bitch calendar earlier in the year, so I started knitting some squares for an afghan, I also used some random stitches I found in some of my stitch books, so they didn't all turn out uniform. The brown square used the pinecone lace stitch, the blue one is the kitten paw, and the dark green is braided cables. I figure there's enough of a variety that the people who assemble them can pick and choose.I never did get friends to work on the squares with me, but I'm mailing them off anyways, hopefully they'll be warming someone up really soon!


If you're interested in contributing, here's the website: http://www.warmupamerica.com/home.html

Honeycomb Afghan for Andrew

Andrew moved into his own place, and what better way to celebrate than a new afghan? This is also his birthday present because it took a lot of work. It was also an opportunity for me to try some new stitches; the honeycomb stitch and the picot edge, both deceptively simple.
I used Caron's one pound each of lace and azure, and size 10 needles. I just started knitting and didn't stop until I thought it was long enough, then added width with the polka dot type stitch and picot edges.

Enterlac blanket

I finally finished the Enterlac blanket. This was the first time I tried this kind of pattern, and just kept knitting until I ran out of yarn. I used baby yarn and size seven needles. The border is lion wool with a glitter strand throughout. I had to modify the enterlac a bit so I wouldn't get so many holes along the edges of some of the squares by knitting until the end before i passed the stitch over instead of slipping it.
I'll upload some better pictures soon!

Concentric Square Afghan

I started this when it was still a little cold, but with finals, it took me until now to finish it, when i wont be using it for a while. I get the e-mailings from Lion brand yarns, and this pattern was in one, and I thought it was neat looking, so i bought the pattern. Turns out, its pretty simple, just laborious.
It was knit in the round from the center with wool-ease, and took 4 size 8 circular needles to fit all the stitches in the end. It did give me an opportunity to try out the interchangeable circular needle system, which was pretty handy. It started with 8 stitches, and ended with over 700.
It's not perfectly square, so its hard to block, and thus hasn't stretched out completely, as I use it, i'm stretching it a bit.
I of course used Wool Ease as it called for in the pattern, but at the time I made it I didn't like the colors they used, so I chose instead to use:
Dark Grey, Forest Heather, Seaspray, Gray, Mink, Mushroom, Dusty Rose, Blush, Denim, and Wheat.