These days I generally post pictures of my crafty endeavours on a monthly basis to tie in with the stash stats and I'll be sticking to that throughout the year as otherwise things tend to get forgotten, but here's something that's worth celebrating with a post all to itself.
This is the lap blanket I made with the yarn advent from The Yarn Artist that the OH bought me for Christmas. I was really pleased that I more or less managed to keep to knitting the one square a day; it slipped a bit towards the end as I was trying to get a pair of Christmas socks done for Son No 2. However they were all knitted up by 31st and then I havered a bit about the border as I wasn't sure what to do. In the end I made a magic knot ball with all the little bits left over from the squares, dug out some undyed DK that I'd got from the YA earlier and combined them in a simple striped garter stitch border which I think works very well. Sadly the colour is a bit blown out on the photo; it was difficult to find somewhere to tkae it that had enough space to lay it out and wasn't too dark to take a picture.
Quite proud of this one.
And so you should be! Love the border xx
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