Finished object: geeky baby blanket!

[jaina]

GLEE! Today Tree and I co-hosted Debby's baby shower (much longer post coming on that, I promise!) and I actually finished all my knitting projects in time! Usually the kid's three or four months old by the time I actually finish my baby knitting. ;-)

They of course received a baby Jayne hat, which I didn't take a picture of since I've made like eight of them now (but it looked pretty much like this, only with less orange, more yellow).

I also gave them a blanket of my own devising, which was so much fun to knit (even if I did have to frog the entire thing after getting halfway through, the first time around!). I call it Baby Formulas and I am really, really happy with it:



Yarn is Knit Picks Shine Worsted in Wave, Snapdragon, Watermelon, Crocus, Green Apple, and Coral. Size 8 needles. Each square took almost one skein, with enough left over to make a striped baby hat or two, I think. I basically figured out how big a square each skein would make, based on my gauge swatch, then worked backwards from there.

The letters are garter stitch on a stockinette background. These knitted alphabet dishcloth patterns were a really helpful starting point, but I came up with the pattern for each letter on my own. I made a grid in Excel and then just played around with highlighting cells until I was happy with how each letter looked. Each column was knitted in one piece, and then I stitched the columns together.

More pictures!







Yay! Now that that's done, it's onto the bandwagon with me-- I'm making a (mini) Clapotis!

(PS Hugh Jackman I LOVE YOUUUUUUU.)

Comments

[ferdalump.livejournal.com]

That blanket is SOOOO amazingly creative and wonderful!!! Great job!!!!!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[jencallisto]

That blanket is fabulous!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

Wow! You are so talented.

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

That is SO COOL!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[knitress.livejournal.com]

Lovelovelove it and you'd better rav it so I can fave it!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Eee! Approval from Nancy! *yays* I put it on Ravelry this morning. :)

[cyndisuesue.livejournal.com]

You = awesome! What a great (nearby) Auntie you will be!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I am very much looking forward to being an "auntie."

[lily-advance.livejournal.com]

OMG WANT!

SO COOL!!!!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks!!!

[anirt.livejournal.com]

That is a fantastic blanket! I love it!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tirianmal.livejournal.com]

*cue dramatic end of game music*

Player JainaMSolo Wins!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks!

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

OMG, that is the coolest thing ever! I want one!!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Hey, if you ever wanna learn to knit... ;-)

[yav-14.livejournal.com]

Adorable! I bet they loved it!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It made Dan giggle, so I call that a win. :)

We loved that the DSer gift came in such a lovely pink bag, btw. Also loved the Corellian whisky, nice touch! :D

[bobsmith4.livejournal.com]

Baby Formulas -- that's perfect! Turn them into geeks early on! I whole-heartedly approve!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's the idea. ;-)

[raykel.livejournal.com]

I don't know from knitting, but that is SUCH a clever concept! Leave it to the MIT-grad "auntie" to give Dan & Debby's baby a blanket like this!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :D

[rford.livejournal.com]

What, no PV=nRT? Very nice. I was going to compliment your eye for type design, but then I got to the capital R. :)

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Silly Roger. That's six characters! Notice the pattern, sir!

Hey, if you want to redesign my R, please do. I'll give you the charts. I put the R off till last, and it didn't really look right, but, well, deadline!

[jfk06.livejournal.com]

Wow - that is an AMAZING blanket! I want one :-)

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[moorina.livejournal.com]

That is *awesome*! Terrific geeky knitting.

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Yay knitter approval!

[slyvermont.livejournal.com]

That baby blanket is awesome. Quite seriously, I'd bet that 99% of MIT graduates with babies would want one. Not to mention alums of Caltech and WPI and RPI and so on and on. You could make money on this.

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I might make this again as a gift, but I can't see selling it. Each block takes me about two hours, plus the sewing up, so I don't think it'd be very feasible.

[eliz.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME!!!

I love it. Heck I want one of my own! Heck- I could consider FINISHING one of my own!

AWESOME!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Very glad you like it. :)

[peqhere.livejournal.com]

GLEE!!! what a great word. I can just imagine a GLEEFUL you as you finished the blanket. Did you do a perfect cartwheel to go along with that moment of GLEE??

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Oh mama, if I could do a perfect cartwheel, I would probably *explode* from sheer glee. That's up there with the splits and an axel.

But I was very happy to finish it and gift it!

[phavorianne.livejournal.com]

XD ! That's incredibly nerdy~ <3

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Exactly! XD Thanks!

[darthdoggie.livejournal.com]

The blanket is adorable. It made me run to my stash and see what I had to make one with a Harry Potter theme. Thanks for sharing.

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed.

[amizada.livejournal.com]

Love love love it!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Yaaaay, thank you! :D

[jedihealer.livejournal.com]

Absolutely fabulous! BTW, my math and science geek son Will thinks it is awesome!

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!

[bluedaisy.livejournal.com]

That completely rocks my world. I have to learn to knit, or figure out how to make raised patterns in crochet.

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!