What’s this?
It’s not half of a bikini top. It’s not a hat. Nope, it’s not a knit artichoke or even a tea cozy.
Give up? It’s the beginning of Jared‘s Hemlock Ring Blanket. Jared morphed a 1942 doily pattern into a blanket by using chunky yarn and adding rows of feather and fan stitch, hence the doily-roid description above. He says it’s made with 660 yards of yarn – a quick knit. So quick in fact, that someone participating in the KAL has completed three in ten days! Sounds like some serious doping going on there.
I’m using this Tatamy Tweed DK, another example of vacation stash, and am knitting it doubled on size 10US needles. Tatamy Tweed, spun in Pennsylvania, comes in 250 yard skeins for $6. It’s the evergreen colourway and contains about half cotton and half acrylic. Great stitch definition and looks and feels like a high quality, higher priced yarn.
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