One of the problems with knitting so much is that my son
keeps asking why I knit so many things for other people, and not many things
for him.
After we delivered the baby and dolls blankets he asked if I would
knit a blanket for his bear. I decided that this would be a good chance for me
to try a small version of an Afghan I had seen in one of my mums pattern books.
Patons: Afghans (Afghans to crochet and knit, #516) made its
way to us from Canada via an elderly woman my mum knew and was originally published
in 1987.I have seen the pattern booklet listed on ebay, and on Amazon
in the US but can’t find it available in the UK (don’t shout at me if you find
it please, I didn’t have much time to look).
I wasn’t very keen on the colours used in the pattern (cream
and dark pink) but as with all patterns you can use whichever colours you like.
The pattern is very simple yet give a very interesting effect and
doesn’t take very long to knit.
This is a great way to use up some oddments of wool, and as
usual I now have a list of people who would like me to make one for their
children. I can’t wait till our new craft group starts up then I can just teach
a few of them to knit without the little ones distracting us.
As usual knitting this has given me a great idea to use the
pattern in other ways and so now my to do list of knitting projects has grown
again.
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