Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Entrelicious!

When I showed this blanket (when it was in progress) to my 4-year-old niece and explained that it would be a gift for her new baby brother, her response was, "He will be delighted to be wrapped up in that." Awwww. I hope she's right.





It's approximately 33" x 50". I say approximately because the darn thing isn't completely rectangular, since my applied i-cord skills leave something to be desired. The border is tight in some places and loose in others, and my corners aren't too square. Poo. Next time I'll use a different technique. The entrelac part came out pretty good, though.


I do wish the joined color didn't look so obvious on the bottoms of the rectangles, but there's not a lot I can do about that. It kind of looks like topstitching, though.

I used Caron Simply Soft acrylic in Country Blue, Light Country Blue, and Dark Country Blue. Of course, when the blanket was about half done my sister informed me that she had finally painted the nursery... green. Oh well. The next one will be three shades of pink, which will go with the walls of my niece's bedroom at their new house.

There was quite a bit of yarn left over, so I'm using the remainder to make a Baby Surprise jacket. I've never done one before, and the process is really interesting.


::Posted by Bliss at 9:35 PM :: (9 comments) ::

9 Comments:

That's beautiful! Entrelac is so cool.

By hege, at 6/06/2007 9:27 AM

I know someone who did a similar blanket and I must say that photos don't do it justice. It's beautiful!

By Covered In Yarn, at 6/06/2007 11:02 PM

wow that is absolutly gorgeous!

By kat, at 6/09/2007 12:14 PM

Lovely, Lovely, Lovely!!! Great job too.

By Kim, at 6/09/2007 9:04 PM

The colors look great, and yes it does look like topstitching. Did you find the Simply Soft to have enough firmness for a blanket or is it on the pretty limp side? I imagine the entrelac would give it some structure and a decent drape.

By Pat K, at 6/24/2007 5:32 PM

I think it drapes pretty well and isn't too limp. I've started another blanket in Bernat Satin, and it's a bit more limp as it's even softer than the Caron... but I think it'll still turn out okay.

By Bliss, at 6/24/2007 6:53 PM

I love it, I have a pattern for a bag in that technique, iffen I can find the time.

By Scarlett, at 9/02/2007 1:35 PM

Your blanket is gorgeous! I find entrelac completely addictive, it doesn't surprise me that you have another planned already.

By Lisa, at 9/18/2007 9:59 PM

Just stopping by to say hello I have been so slack lately with my own blog and also stopping by the blogs linked from mine, so I am trying to fix that :)

By roseygirl, at 11/12/2007 1:00 AM

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