Another one bites the dust

So I've finished another 12 by 12 square of two mixed shades of blue. This particular square isn't made from the lion brand fuzzy yarn, but rather a usual yarn type (sorry it never came with a brand, yay yard sale yarn). But since it doesn't match brand-wise and softness-wise it's going in it's own large blanket.

I've decided to do two different blankets, one thats completely blue and made of 2-3 shades of lionbrand fuzzy yarn and another that is a rainbow. Yes, I'm a big enough dork that I want to do a rainbow blanket. I've done some figuring and since there are seven colors in a rainbow (roygbiv) and I want to do a row of either black or white at the top and bottom to bookend it. So that's nine rows of 12 by 12 squares. 9 Feet... this blanket's going to be so huge! and then it only seems right to do another 7 in the other direction so... a 9ft by 7 ft blanket is underway. (expect it to take me years to finish).

The completely blue one won't be nearly as bad, I'm thinking 7 by 7 so roughly 49 squares. Wish me luck!

Once upon a time

So I completed a little 4 by 9 rectangle that'll form the middle of one of the blankets I'm making. I used up part of the vibrant pink and one of the fluffy blues to do it but it looks really nice. Apart from that I thought it might be nice to tell the tale of how I learned to knit.

Once long ago in a high school far away from my college there was a girl named Lily. Lily knew how to knit, having learned it from her older sister. One Monday Lily brought a skein of yarn into school, and toted it around to all of her classes. After school that day Lily went to anime club and sat down and began to knit. Suddenly next to her sat one of the juniors in the club (I'll give you three guesses the first two don't count) and the junior commented on how pretty the knitting was. So Lily decided to teach her, it was a slow and painstaking process. The junior hadn't been very smart and had bought hard to use yarn that broke very easily, she also had a terrible tenancy to make her stitches very tight which resulted in several castings being useless. Finally through much exasperation Lily managed to get her started. The junior worked and worked and finally ended up (two years later) with a scarf that had gotten out of hand and had morphed into a 2 foot by 5 foot length. This over, the now senior had to rely to going online to remind her how to cast on... the casting on she had learned two years ago but not used since. And ever since that day there has been knitting in the kingdom.

Yarns that I currently possess

So I thought I'd make a list of the yarns I have available so that people (mostly you Ashley) can send in suggestions of what to make. So then as of now I have:








478 yards of ecological wool from cascade yarns (100% undyed peruvian highland wool) in a very pretty light cream color.















1 full skein peach/flesh colored yarn















2 full skeins autumn colored yarn (mix of reds, oranges, browns, and golds)


















1 full skein highlighter green yarn (thinner yarn)




















1 1/2 full skeins black (thinner yarn)
















1 full skein ice blue (ribbon yarn)













1 full skein aurora colors (ribbon yarn)












2 full skeins black w/ reds and purples (ribbon yarn)















1/2 skein bright pink (thinner yarn)
















3/4 skein olive green (fluffy yarn)
















1/2 skein pale yellow yarn




















1/2 skein red yarn




















1/4 skein gray (fluffy yarn)


















1/4 skein vibrant pink (brighter than pink mentioned earier)

















1/6 skein black (fluffy yarn)











ends of




white yarn







































green yarn

























rainbow






















at my disposal I have:
knitting needles

plastic #9's (aka 5 .50 mm)


















metal # 10's (aka 5.75 mm)



















metal #2's (2.75 mm)

















metal looped #9's (5.5 mm)

















bamboo looped #8's (5 mm)

















bamboo #20's (8 mm)

















and a crochet hook at 4.25









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