I wasn’t sure if I should sit on the quiet car this morning for my train ride because I wasn’t sure if I’d nap or knit. If I knitted, I didn’t want my plastic needles touching each other to annoy people.*
So I tried to knit quietly.
I went to the hobby store Saturday night to pick out yarn for a baby blanket for my younger brother and his wife and got completely distracted by the Red Heart Boutique Boulevard jumbo yarn. I probably never would have gotten started on the baby blanket if I hadn’t had to wait for Monday for the size 19 needles to arrive to use the jumbo yarn.
Gah, this stuff is so easy, quick and fun to knit with. I finished a project on Monday**, another on Tuesday, and started a third this morning on the train! Can I just use jumbo yarn for the rest of my projects?! Please?!
Or I could work on that slow-moving, 150 stitch per row baby blanket… Getting used to circulars was interesting (thanks to Mica for sending me a kit and to Gina for sending me a pair!), but I think I finally got the hang of it. The baby is due Sunday. It’s okay if I get the blanket done in October, right?!
*I felt less bad about this when I took my headphones off and realized the woman sitting behind me was blaring music so loudly on hers I would’ve heard it if I didn’t have mine on.
**I will share a photo after I give it away!
You are a knitting machine! I’m still waiting for my MIL to finish knitting a baby blanket for Thing 1. After 14 years I’m not holding my breath.
It’s funny you mention that promised blanket that never happened. Shortly after we got married, someone asked me and Steven our favorite colors and said they’d make us an afghan. It was someone Steven knew, but I was meeting them for the first time (they weren’t invited to our wedding). Yeah, it never happened. I wasn’t upset (AT ALL) but why mention it if you aren’t going to do it? LOL.
…This is the story of my life with you-know-who. 🙂
With moi?! 😛
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Absolutely it is okay if the blanket is done in October. I think the parents will be so distracted by the newborn that they won’t even notice!!!
Oh, they will be. LOL!
Ahh, chunky yarn. I love it – I can whip out a hat in a couple of hours…sometimes, you just need the satisfaction of starting and completing a project quickly.
Yes! Exactly! That is what I need since I am going to be working on this blanket FOREVER! LOL!!!! 🙂
Do you have any hat patterns you like? I’d like to start trying some hats out (for xmas gifts).
Sugar Pine Hat is my favorite to knit in chunky yarn – I can’t even count how many I’ve made at this point. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sugar-pine-hat/people
Turn a Square is another good pattern, and it works well for both men and women. It’s not chunky yarn, though…but you could easily do it.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/turn-a-square
Those are both so great! Thank you!!!!!! I think I will try them for some presents 😉 Do you think they are good for beginners?
Yes. The thing that will make knitting in the round easier is to knit on 16″ circular needles. You might need to switch to double pointed needles for the top of the hat, because you’ll decrease the amount of stitches, but getting most of it done on the circs will be really easy. You totally can do this! 🙂
Cool, thanks for the tips! I have a neat seat of circulars… I might have the kind I need! Still need to get some DPNs though 🙂 It would be my first “tube” project, lol!
I’ve never been bothered by clicking needles, but I know some people won’t buy metal ones because they click too much and it either drives them or the people they live with crazy.
Chunky yarn is so fast! It used to be my jam but recently, I’ve been into smaller yarns. I think I like how delicate it feels in my hands.
I think the metal ones wouldn’t make me nuts (the noise) but I would slip too much! I just didn’t want to bug people on the train with the clicking, ha ha! (Since I WAS in the quiet car, after all).
I bet after I finish the project I told you about last night, I will want to get back to that baby blanket! And I still haven’t dealt with teeny tiny yarn!
that hat is adorable!
Sorry I haven’t been around, between vacation and my computer not working, I am super far behind.