August 2008 Archives

Start: 06th March 2008
Finish: 21st August 2008
Yarn: Gedifra Shetland Deluxe: 50% New Wool, 25% Baby Alpaca, 25% Mohair
Needles: 4.5 mm / 100 cm Addi Turbos
Pattern: Hemlock Ring Blanket by Jared Flood from Brooklyntweed

"I know that I know nothing"....yeah, Socrates. You see where I'm going with that?

Perfect timing that I finished my Hemlock Ring Blanket.

Dr. D's away on another wedding this weekend and I need to study for my diploma exams that's coming in mid-September. The weather is turning into Autumn, i.e. it's cooler now and it's been raining and drizzling. So I can snuggle my legs under my blanket and study away. Perfect weather for such a thing and a cuppa to go with it.

....and yes, I'm sitting on the floor. Sometimes I like to sit on the floor. And if you want to know, I've got Beethoven's Symphonies running in the background. ;-)

And if it still hasn't dawn on you: I study political science...and with the theories, I have to read Socrates and the likes. This being a Hemlock Ring Blanket, I find that it is a kind of funny coincidence that the blanket be named "Hemlock", which is the poison extracted from the plant Conium, which is also commonly known as poisonous hemlock, which they used to executed Socrates. ;-)

Here are the rest of the photos. Have a great and better weekend than mine, everyone!

Start: 06th March 2008
Finish: 21st August 2008
Yarn: Gedifra Shetland Deluxe: 50% New Wool, 25% Baby Alpaca, 25% Mohair
Needles: 4.5 mm / 100 cm Addi Turbos
Pattern: Hemlock Ring Blanket by Jared Flood from Brooklyntweed

Finally, it's finished! I mucked something up and had to put it away for months on end before I could come back to it and frog back down to fix the mistake....

....however, when I was blocking it, I can see a mistake in the section that's the start of the round. Oh well, can't do anything about that now. I'll just have to live with it. I'm sure that I will still love it though.

The diametre of the blanket is about 100 cm. I could have done it bigger, but I just couldn't knit any more on it. I used up about 5 balls of the yarn. Still have a ball and a bit more left. I'll probably knit a hat out of that. :-p

I'll have to think of how I could set the photoshoot up. My place definitely doesn't look like a cozy, trendy place for such a blanket. I'll see.