Project Pippin underway

 The Pippin Project is well underway with 49 squares in hand, with a target of 100 squares.  The colours in hand are:

Shadow 25
Denim 4
Brick 5
Gumtree 15

 We're looking forward to seeing these inspiring colours assembled!

The Sebastian Project

The finished product- we're pretty happy with this one.  Just gorgeous!

   

Some of the squares ready for sewing together.

 

The new mother is pretty surprised at how gorgeous it is.

 Sebastian is looking interested!

 

The Assistant Grandmothers are pretty excited too!

Get out your needles, ladies, Project Oop begins

We've had a long lay-up in port over the summer, but now we feel the winds freshening and it is time to set sail on the new Project Oop (Offspring of Patrick).  Those colours make us itch to get going, and I bags the Cream and Delphinium.  The rest of the colour scheme is Baby Blue and Junior Navy.  Our little sailor boy will be well decked out.

Alice gets her blanket

Alice checks the quality of the workmanship.

The African Violet is submitted to the taste test.

Mother, grandmother and baby are satisfied with the quality.

Yes, the pattern looks good. And soft on toesies.

You've done a nice job, ladies.

Pretty soft and snuggly.  We'll keep it!

Update on squares for Project Baby Clarke

 

Update from Julie - So far the squares I have are 17 African Violet, 16 Pale Blue, 7 Lavender, 6 Mid Blue
which is 46 in total. That is about half way.  Looking Good.

Baby Clarke is more than half-way - 38 weeks now! 

Pattern post

 

 

Size does matter

Hi everyone. This is your sewing up and border knitter here ! 

Just want to clarify a few things before we embark on the next baby blanket.

1. Size does matter.

 The squares need to be 11 by 11 cms and depending on the pattern you have chosen you will need to cast on about 30 stitches. To get this knit on 9 (3.75) or 10 ( 3.25 or 3.5) needles, whatever suits you to get the size. Check how it is working out when you are about 10 cms into the pattern by smoothing the work out gently along an upholstered chair arm. Pull it out if it isn't close to 11 cms in width and change the size of your needles to make it bigger or smaller. 

 

2. No of stitches to cast on for each pattern. 

Leave at least 30 cm tails at the beginning and the end of each square. 

If the pattern asks for multiples of 8+1 then cast on 33 stitches. If it asks for multiples of 5+2 then cast on 32 stitches. If it asks for multiples of 2 cast on 30 stitches. So the point is that the square must have about 30 stitches. If because you find your square is far too narrow use a bigger needle or even add another pattern if your pattern lets you do so by adding a few stitches. Wider patterns will be too wide. 

 

3. Casting off. 

Please use the slip one, knit one, pass first stitch over second stitch so you have one stitch on your right needle. Then continue to cast off by knitting next stitch and pulling the first stitch over to cast off. This method of casting off  is nice and firm to sew up. Try to keep the square square if that makes sense by not making the casting off too loose or too tight. Leave a good tail.

Patterns will follow in the next post.