Submitted by slinkster on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 19:07.
Dear Page,
Just to keep you up to date... I finished the OpArt Baby Blanket. Here it is pinned for blocking:
Overhead view:
Side view:
While this was not a challenging project it took progressively more time to knit the rows as each row increased by 4 stitches. On the final rows, there were over 700 stitches! There were a multitude of ends to weave in since each stripe had 4 ends. I find working with the darker yarns difficult as I don't see them well without extremely good light. I chose to use a loose bind-off since the designer of the pattern said it needed to be "heavily" blocked.
I used Knitpicks Swish DK which turned out to be very soft. It should wash nicely, too.
Love,
Mom
