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Now presenting further progress on the inventory for Big On Bloor:

I took about a dozen pictures of this and not a single one caught the beautiful colours of this blanket. I suppose you’re all just going to have to come visit me at the show (and then buy this).

This blanket is also an excellent example of how wonderful that “no turning chain dc” technique is. Here is a close-up of the edge:

Isn’t that amazing? If I look really, really closely, I still have a hard time telling which stitches are real double crochets, and which are the no-turning-chain stitches.

I’ve found it to make working in the round a bit easier, too. In the past, I had always had problems figuring out which chain in the beginning chain was the one I needed to make a join in. Using this no-turning-chain method, it’s pretty obvious where the join goes.

If you haven’t tried out this technique already, I urge you to do it. You won’t regret it!

I just realized the other day that I never posted pictures of the motifs I received from craftADDchick here on the blog. I’ve put them under the cut (Dad, if you’re reading this, don’t read any further on this post, please!)

Please forgive the pictures; I took these on my scribe at work in a different way than usual…

This last picture has three motifs for my Dad’s Christmas present:

The piano represents his tuning mine while I was growing up, the Starfleet badge is for his love of Star Trek, and the maple leaf is for his passion for all things “Made In Canada” (the irony here being that craftADDchick, who made these, lives in the States. We won’t tell Dad. ^_-)

I love these motifs and I hope we do another swap like this again soon! It was fun to participate in it, and I don’t have nearly enough motifs to make a blanket out of them yet. In the mean time, I’ve signed up for the third round of the Granny’s Daughters swap.