Update on the Contest Blanket o' Doom

[camwyn]

I have been working on this thing at lunch, after work, and on weekends in earnest, since it must be in the judges' hands by May 1st. I have decided that it is going to be one cable panel only; all the other panels will involve other textural stitching, more like a sampler than an assload of cable. Today I brought the cable panel with me when I dropped off my car to have the oil changed and the engine flushed. I measured it when I reached the end of repeat #5 of the central sixty rows... it was a little more than 39 inches long. My tape measure only goes up to 39, but given that I had forty rows left and the blanket has to be 40" by 57" or larger, I decided to end the repeats there.

I've finished the entire cable panel. It is 48" long.

I so need someone with a digital camera so I can post pictures of this thing in progress. It'll never fit into my scanner.

Comments

[ocean-song.livejournal.com]

Congrats babe! I am soooooo rooting for you!!!

[camwyn]

Thank you! When I'm done I have to bang out a wire necklace or two and take them to Mermaid Dream, the bead store I found in the next town over... I have a feeling I might be able to persuade them to hang one or two on the wall if I do 'em right. Possibly.

[ocean-song.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got your message about that today. How surreal. So, then, if you do, will you make one for me too, as your bizarre inspiration/connection? ;)

Hope you are otherwise having a good weekend and are successfully avoiding arthritis!

Take care hon!

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

Yay!

(*has a digital camera, but fat lot of good that probably does you*)