July 3rd, 2010 
mio My Dearest, Beautiful Self,
I know there aren’t any “crochet police” so you can do whatever you want, but honestly, please feel free to actually *finish* a blanket. Any blanket.
I only bring this up because, despite the fact that you have more in-progress blankets than you can *find*, you still started two more in the last 3 days.
You know I still love you, regardless of what you do,
mio
Posted in Afghans, Experimenting, charity 
Tags: afghan, charity, crochet, granny square, motif, Tunisian, tunisian entrelac 
1 Comment » June 25th, 2010 mio You know you’ve been away from your blog a long time when the spammers start to notice! My spam filter for the comments found one that said something like, “Come back, please come back!” How nice! ^_^
I’ve been silent because of a combination of “working on presents for people who read the blog” and “working on getting a pattern published”.
I’ve been over-thinking about this for about a month now, and I’ve finally made a decision! I’m off work because of the G20 Summit being hosted in Toronto this weekend, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to post the pattern for the Oddly Linked Blanket.
If you’re on Ravelry, you’ll find the pattern here: Oddly Linked Blanket.
If you’re not on Ravelry, you should still be able to buy it by clicking on the button below to be taken directly to the PayPal page:
You would be paying $2.00 USD for the pattern for the blanket. I’d say it’s an easy-intermediate level blanket, with one tricky part that is clearly (I hope!) explained using both text and lots of pictures.
Once you get the hang of the special stitch, the blanket works up quickly! Use any smooth, solid coloured yarn with an appropriate hook for best results. I think a variegated yarn would work well, but one with long runs of colours would work best.
One last note: I know that this pattern looks like it might have a lot of ends to weave in, but it has exactly as many as you’d expect with that many colour changes; so 2 ends per stripe of colour.
May 4th, 2010 mio I’m making good progress on the yellow hexagon blanket:
(I’m pretty sure I’m going to need to block those at some point…)
Not bad for only working on them on the subway and on my lunch breaks at work!
I’m still debating how I want to join them together. Whip-stitch will probably look best, but sc might give it a bit more stability… I’ll have to experiment!
11 Blankets in 2011
