Nope, didn't stop knitting

So.. I know it's been pretty much HALF A YEAR since I last posted on here. But please, I have a really good excuse! ..... Okay, no I don't. I just kept making and ripping apart the project because I didn't like it. Then I kept starting and stopping knitting. Finally, when I finally got some motivation, it was summer, and it was too hot to be knitting a giant warm cuddly blanket. However, I can be proud to say that I am finally done, and I can move on with my life now! It's nice and lacy with some added fringes.

 

I used a chunky yarn instead of Aran like the pattern suggested, so as a result I was actually knitting length-wise. (It took me one 20 minute episode to do one row of this blanket... think about how long it took! Good thing I'm an experienced binge watcher!) Width-wise, it probably would've looked better if it was wider, but hey, it still covers the entire body. But it's proportions makes it more suited for a blanket you'd use while watching TV, rather than one you'd keep on your bed. 

 Not sure if you can tell from my pictures, but some of the yarn weren't from the same dye-lot (rookie mistake!) so in the light, and you can actually see that some of the colour is off from the rest. One thing is for sure though.... it will definitely keep me warm. Although since it's summer, the sun is already doing a great job of that ..

Mystery Blanket Solved!

If you've been reading my last several many posts, then you should know I've been knitting a blanket! Not just any blanket, a Mystery Blanket! Well, here it is!

As you can see, every panel is a different panel! Here is how the blanket looked without the crochet edge.

I think the crocheted border made it look so cute, like a baby blanket! Although, for its size, it pretty much is a baby blanket.

After knitting the squares, putting it together took a while because of weaving in the ends, which is my least favourite thing to do!

My friend wants to have the blanket because I said I wasn't sure if I was even going to actually use it. I'm a process knitter, so as the name sounds, I like knitting for the process of knitting rather than knitting just for the end result. I do love the end result though because I feel so accomplished, but when I choose the pattern, I choose depending on if I think knitting it will be fun. Maybe I will give it away. That friend has been asking for something for a long time. Well .. I'll see how I feel about it after the day has passed!

You Either Knit or you Die

It's done!! After 2 and a half months of knitting! I knit a Game of Thrones blanket :) Okay, so I'm not completely done yet. I'm planning on adding a fleece backing to the blanket to cover the ugly back. But, I was so excited to finish the knit portion that I had to share! I took the sigil patterns from here. Some sigil patterns I tweaked however because I didn't want to (and too lazy to bother to learn how to) embroider- this is most noticeable on the Stark and Tyrell pattern, but the Baratheon, Lannister, and Targaryen sigils are slightly changed as well.

For the GoT logo, I made the pattern from this neat little site that I found on reddit, but I feel so bad, for the life of me, I can't find the website again to link it here! Basically, you feed the website any picture, and it'll graph it out for you. I think it sounds like knit widget or something like that, but Google isn't showing any results. Well, here is the graph that I got (and personally made easier to read) in case anyone wants to make their own!

It actually didn't come out this neat because I couldn't find any photo of just the logo clearly by itself, so I had to do a lot of cleaning and improvising, but it did give me an awesome base to work with.

 

I also got the chance to work on my crocheting techniques, as I crocheted the sections together, as well as crocheted a border around the blanket to make it a little less curly, since stockinette stitch is so frustratingly curly. I think when the fleece backing is knit on, the curling should be even less though. Because you probably can't see the border in the main picture, here's a close-up:

It's called the Picot edging found on this Youtube tutorial.

 

This blanket will be perfect when binge watching the GoT series!