Cabled Baby Afghan

Working on this baby afghan for my soon to be born niece/nephew. In fact, been busy knitting away for the littlest Gajria :) All other projects have been put on the back burner for now. There will be in-between projects I'll continue to work on while doing this afghan in parallel. But I did want to kick-start it as I don't see myself working exclusively on this blanket for a whole 36X36 inches, without getting distracted by other projects (even though I love the pattern... It's easy, and yet it makes you pay attention to what you're doing. )

Here are some pics of where I am right now...

(Psstt...notice that neat ball of yarn? I rolled that up myself, using my hands - no ball winder used. I'd love to get myself a ball winder someday..but they are a little pricey, and I don't think I've earned it yet. This yarn is rolled into a center pull ball, which keeps the yarn untangled and easy to pull out from the ball.)

 

 

3/13 - Done with about 7 inches. 29 inches more to go. Really enjoying knitting this.

 

 

 10/9 - And....I'm finally done...my first knitted blanket - for baby Sanaya. A knitted blanket is a lot of work though. Approximately 18,500 stitches went into making the baby sized blankie (36 inches long)! Next time I wanna make a blanket/throw, I think I'll go for crochet instead. Crocheting would go much faster.

 

 

 

And there's my little guy. He loves the camera, especially when Mommy's on the other side of it :)

 

 



I am seriously lagging behind on keeping my blog updated with my latest projects! I must be more regular. I have completed / am working on so so many projects since I last posted, I wouldn't even know where to start on the blog now. But I'm going to be back, probably with one single post containing pictures of all my finished projects, and the WIP ones.

I blame my procrastination in keeping the blog updated to the simple fact that when I get a few minutes in the day, it's way more tempting to knit, than update my blog about it! But...I realize now that they must go hand in hand, or I lose track of my finished projects.

Knitting 101

Interesting tutorial on how to knit...maybe from a man's point of view (I don't really mean that, there are a lot of successful men knitters).

I cringed when he used the glue on the 'scarf'... :) yeah seriously, just buy a scarf already!! hehe..

Maybe if I asked my two year old to knit mommy a yellow and red scarf, he would knit it this way :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4_XNKOuODU&feature=youtu.be