Finished Baby Blanket

I finally finished the Baby Blanket I made on my knitting machine. I crocheted a shell border and added a tuck stitch in blanket for decoration.  It was a pretty quick knit once I put my mind to finishing it.

A quickie blanket

I wanted to make a baby blanket for someone who just had a baby and I dreaded knitting one.  So I pulled out my Silver Reed Knitting machine and I knit one up quick.  It only takes about a hour or so to make a baby blanket.  Took me a hour total over many days because my breaks are days long haha.  I just have to block (and yes you can block acrylic) it out.  The only issue with the flat bed knitting machines is that they curl quite a bit. I have read of a few ways to prevent it, but blocking works for me just as well.  Then I will crochet a shell edging.  When I have done that I will post a pic of the finished blanket.

10 stitch blanket

I have been working on this blanket for almost a year! I hope to finish this winter.  It was easy at first, but now it takes over 2 hrs to make the complete round.  I don't think I will be making one this size again haha.

Sunhat

Here is my granddaughter wearing a sunhat I knitted for her.  It was a easy pattern.  I just knitted a basic beanie and picked up stitches on the edge.  I increased every 3 rows until I thought the brim was wide enough. I think she's busy examining the tomatoes from the garden.

Fresh out of the garden.

We had terrible rain last night and I was afraid to check the garden for any damage.  This is what I came out with.  I still have a lot of tomatoes and green peppers left yet to pick.  It has been a good year so far.

Welcome to my blog.

I may have the blog bug.  I watch watching one of my favorite you tubers and she is now blogging (Pam) and I thought I might give it a try.  I am doing this blindly, as I am not sure how this works.  It seems I created this a year or so ago and never did anything with it.

I do knit, crochet and occasionally some sewing.  I will post some pictures of my projects as I work on them.

A little about me.  I live in the "frozen tundra", as I call it,  with my husband and 2 cats.  I have one grandchild, whom I love and adore.  I like to knit for her and have made a few cute hats and a blanket or 2.  There are so many projects and such little time to do them all.  I find knitting a stress reliever until the carpel tunnel kicks in.  I have to get that fixed one of these days.  I'm just not up for the surgery right at this point in time.  I just take a lot of breaks when I do knit or crochet.

That's all I can think of for now. :)