So, I’m finally getting around to posting all the finished projects I completed recently. Without further ado, here are the details:

Pattern: Celestarium Shawl
Yarn: Madelinetosh Tosh Sock in the Deep colorway
Needles: US 4
Notes and Mods: The beads on this shawl mimic the night sky as seen from the North Pole. Used silver-lined beads from Michaels and applied them using the crochet hook method. Used the circular cast on with crochet hook. Just placed bead in the loop before picking up the stitch. I also used kfb for the increases instead of M1 because its faster and easier for me. I set up the pattern in Knit Companion and used magic markers to count stitches. As this got bigger, I pre-marked bead placement on each row with removable stitch markers. Taking one minute to do that on a large row saved time counting stitches along the way and made the project portable, as it became just endless knit stitches with a bead here or there. I omitted the YO/ktog. I like the look of projects that did not better. Finally, I incorporated Stellar Waves edging instead of original border.

Pattern: Elm Blanket
Yarn: Yarn Bee Soft & Sleek Solids in the Mustard and Teal Green Colorways
Needles: US 8
Notes and Mods: I have no clue why they call this that colorway teal green because it is far more blue. Otherwise, the pattern is very easy and I like going with less traditional colors for babies.
The remaining projects were from the Cascade 2018 Gradient Lapghan Knitterati knitalong.
Pattern: Gradient Lapghan Block 6 from the Knitterati 2018 knitalong.
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in the Forged Iron colorway
Needles: US 7
Notes and Mods: I should have gone down a needle size. My row gauge was off and I had to omit a few rows.

Pattern: Gradient Lapghan Block 7 from Knitterati 2018
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in Blue Indigo colorway
Needles: US 7
Notes and Mods: Only did five pattern repeats because my row gauge was a but off on this one as I was too lazy to swatch.

Pattern: Gradient Lapghan Block 8
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in the Country Blue colorway
Needle: US 6
Notes and Mods: Had to go down a needle size from the pattern because I could tell after 2 rows it was way too big.

Pattern: Gradient Lapghan Block 9
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in Iguana colorway
Needles: US 5
Notes and Mods: Fabric construction was interesting, so I am skeptical it will hold the dimensions evenly when final blanket is assembled.
Pattern: Gradient Lapghan Block 10
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in the Blackberry Wine colorway
Needles: US 6
Notes and Mods: None. Easy knit.

Pattern: Gradient Lapghan Block 11
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in the Glacier Grey colorway.
Needles: US 7
Notes and Mods: I should have gone down a needle size as the is pushing the dimension limit. I don’t like the way these cables look. They are too puffy in the middle.

Pattern: Gradient Lapghan Block 12
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in December Sky colorway.
Needles: US 7
Notes and Mods: Fastest and easiest of the blocks but probably should have gone up a needle size. I had to block this pretty aggressively to get it to size.

Pattern: Gradient Lapghan Block 13
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in the Grapeade colorway
Needles: US 7
Notes and Mods: I liked the twisted stitch detailing.

Pattern: Gradient Lapghan Block 14
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in Flint Grey colorway
Needles: US 7
Notes and Mods: I hate bobbles. That is all.

Pattern: Gradient Lapghan Block 15
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in the Violet Ice colorway.
Needles: US 6
Notes and Mods: I liked the structural detailing on this one.

Pattern: Gradient Lapghan Block 16
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in the Chive colorway
Needles: US 7
Notes and Mods: Just glad to be done. Now I just need to suck it up and assemble the blanket and border.
So, there ya go. I think I may be ready for some instant gratification knitting.
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