Amateur Amalgam

Hello again! Welcome back to another post about a project that I have, surprisingly, managed to finish. This one is actually a 2-in-1, as I made two versions of the same project using different colours! I got the pattern as part of a thing I used to be subscribed to, where they sent a collection of free patterns every day or so and this one was the one that caught my eye. This is from a few years ago as well – actually I think this is from before the Hue Shift Afghan.

The pattern itself was really easy and at the time, I hadn’t knit anything in a couple of years so I wanted to do something that would get me back in the habit of it. The original is from a Norwegian yarn company called Pickles, but the post where they had the pattern instructions no longer exists. I did, at the time, worry that something like this would happen so I copied the blog post and saved it to a word doc that I could reference at a later date – this document is unfortunately lost in all the files I need to sort out from when I got a new laptop, but hey! At least I have it somewhere!

The original post had it in a green colourway, as the inspiration for the blanket was ocean waves, and it was meant to simulate seafoam. I decided to stick to that theme and chose blues as my colours, then about halfway through picking out yarns I decided I should make another one in pinks and purples (my favorite colours). The selections that they had on the site were just soooo pretty I couldn’t resist ❤️

I had originally intended to gift it to my aunt, who was pregnant at the time, but just like with the Hue Shift Afghan I only worked on it once every few months on and off for a couple years so by the time I finished the baby was too big for it. I just decided to keep both and have them on hand for the next relative who was gonna have a kid. My other aunt announced that she was gonna have a baby too, but alas, they live in the States and by the time I finished the blanket (I was working on the second one and wanted to give her that one) her baby was also too big.

The pattern itself is just the same thing over and over, and then you change the colours with every 4 rows, to give it a wave effect. Purl every row, adding in a yarn over every couple of stitches and increasing by one (till you get 3), then decreasing so that you get that wave effect.

With the first one I made in blue, while I was picking out the yarn colours I decided to use 4 instead of 3 like the original pattern. Since you just copy the same stitches for each row, this wasn’t a problem, cause the colour change follows the same pattern. This meant that the blanket I ended up with was longer than the one in the original pattern, but that didn’t bother me. I worked on this one everywhere, but since it’s a baby blanket is was small enough to not draw that much attention when I was in public. The story was the same for the purple one I made.

With this one I stuck to just 3 colours, and I distinctly remember working on this one in class cause we were taking about textiles at the time and knitting was one of the manufacturing methods that came up in discussions.

When I did finally finish both, I wanted to tie them together and sort of quilt a larger one, adding more coulourways as I go – And I still might later on – but I misplaced the blue one 😢. It got packed up somewhere and I couldn’t (still can’t) find it. I still have the purple one, and use it as a decorative cover for my laundry basket, but if I ever do find the blue one I definitely want to revisit the multicolourway quilt. Who knows, maybe I’ll just start over even if I don’t find it