Today: swatching for the next baby blanket when the current one has the edging left to go. That will be the third blanket for the third long-awaited baby due at about the same time as the others.
The new yarn is dk weight. I was going to knit it doubled. It’s another 50/50 cash/cotton, but Colourmart described it as softer than their others of the same blend–and they’re right. This is seriously nice stuff, they all are, but wow. I’m glad the mother-to-be chose that color because it’s the only one I have of it.
You could (doubling it) have a thick warm cushy blanket for easily setting the baby on the floor. Or (single strand) have one you and later the baby could easily carry everywhere because it’s not too cumbersome nor heavy nor hot.
That child’s infancy is going to be during the summer (why are we still arguing when we know what we have to do.) So lighter weight would be good–and it would also mean there’s no question I’d have enough yardage from those cones.
I still hadn’t shaken off the plans I’d had when ordering the stuff.
The only thing to do was swatch and wash and prove it to myself, and I half-deliberately started with the single strand to make myself fall in love with it looking that way.
I went down a needle size. I swatched again.
That was it. That was definitely it. Even if it takes a lot more knitting to make it. I could even go down to a 3.25 mm, but I’m just not that virtuous on a blanket scale.
Yet.
But also it’s a matter of what my hands can comfortably spend endless hours on.