Ten Stitch Blanket: Part Dos

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Back at the beginning of April, I wrote a post on how I was knitting a blanket, using the Ten-Stitch Blanket pattern on Ravelry. I also mentioned that I was making it with a bunch of different colored yarn scraps that I had. Well, the other day I pulled it out again and took it apart.

What it used to look like
Since you might ask why I took it apart, especially since I had already knit so far along. To start off, back in March of last year I wrote a post on how I am the queen of taking knitting projects apart. As I was working on the blanket, I did take a break to start working on two other blankets, I didn't like where some of the colors were falling. Like white against white, camo on camo, and a lot of the variegated yarns were on the same side of the blanket.

Once I took the blanket apart I organized it by color. Since there were bits and pieces of the camo yarn scattered through out the blanket I put them into multiple balls so I could have the color scattered through out the blanket as I went. I did the same with the other variegated yarns that I had in there as well. The same happened with the bright green and the bright blue yarns. If there was a small strip of a single color I added it to a larger, different color to break it up.


Instead of turning all of the yarn into one large ball, like I did the first time, I have them all in individual balls. I like it better that way because it is easier to pick which color comes next and I can spread out the all of the greens, blues, and reds that I have. So that the blanket doesn't end up with one side being the "light" side and the other the "dark" side I am alternating which shade I use as I go around the blanket so that it is an even mix of light and dark. I am also going as far as doing it so that similar colors aren't touching either.

That is all I currently have to say about the blanket. Some day in the future, not sure how far it will be yet, I will post a picture of the blanket once I am finally finished with it. Again I am not sure when that will be. In the mean time, I hope you enjoy my (almost) weekly 40-week photography challenge that I am doing.


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