“Ages” ago I blogged about knitting another blanket for BabyS using a knitting pattern by Garnstudio. Well I started in July and tonight I finally finished it! Wohoo! Though the pattern wasn’t hard to follow and BabyS allowed me a lot of time to knit, the project still had its’ challenges…
When picking up yarn for this pattern I didn’t want the blanket to be just one color. The picture in the pattern was a cute, but monochromatic, baby blue. I didn’t want a baby pink (BabyS is girl) blanket. So I guessed my way to how many balls of Cotton Light yarn I needed with what I had in mind. I wanted the blackberry pattern in the middle to be pink, framed by a light brown border.
Well about two months ago I was about 50 cm into my blanket when I realized I didn’t have enough of the brown color! Having my hands full of BabyS it took me some time to get to a store that sold this particular yarn. I finally found time to visit Tjorven and to my dismay Garnstudio had changed the blend of the Cotton Light yarn - from a 60% Cotton and 40% Acrylic to a 50/50 blend.
Oh no! What to do now???
- do I put lots of energy into finding the old blend somewhere in the world?
- do I finish off the blanket as is? is 50 cm a usable size blanket?
- do I just knit the rest of the blanket in pink?
I wound up sitting down, did some calculating and found that with the yarn I had, it would be enough if I increased the blackberry pattern in the middle and narrowed the border frame. This way the finished blanket would still be the same size as the pattern I had chosen.
The finished result you ask? Here it is…
a nice 60x80cm blanket
Hopefully BabyS will like her new blanket when she wakes up tomorrow…
If you want to make blanket like this…
The pattern can be found here  |
The yarn I used…   |
For my recalculated blanket I used- 3 balls of brown Cotton Light yarn
- 5 balls of pink Cotton Light yarn
Good luck to ya!
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