Knitters - do you like this baby blanket pattern?

[Ceolas]

here

I can't decide if I do.

It's a lot of yarn and a lot of time!

Not sure if it's the colour that I don't like.

I was going to do it in Rowan Cashsoft Chicory - a sort of pale green...

I don't. It will look ugly on the wrong side.

Yeah, pale green I think would look a lot nicer, if it were pale green, I think it would definitely be worth doing. And Rowan cashsoft is divine.

gorgeous

They had a nice baby blanket in the vogue summer mag. Here www.vogueknitting.com/200703/magazine-preview.shtml at the bottom

much prefer the vogue one. the op's looks like a lot of hard work.

I think the cable one would be good practice. Keep looking at the cable one and it's growing on me. Definitely the colour I'm not sure about, lilac, it just looks wrong.

I bought the yarn to do this blanket originally.

Can't help feeling it's going to be very complicated!

Prefer the 1st one. The ryc probably is simpler than it looks.

Oh, I like the tree. It doesn't look that complicated - depends how many trees there are, I guess.

I think the leaves are blackberry stitch aren't they.

It's just the pattern looks difficult to follow as there are different numbers of stitches as you progress through the 'tree'.

It's a sort of checkerboard design with tree squares and plain stocking stitch squares.

i like it, and i'm not a knitter (just get nosey to see what all you talented people are making!) so, if it was to be for a present for someone who can't knit, i'm sure they would love it

The bobbles would be a problem for me - the few times I've tried to make bobbles (or blackberries, or whatever they're called), they've ended up looking more like pustules.

I don't find changing numbers of stitches that much of a problem. You have to watch the pattern the first time you repeat, and then it's fine. (But then I've just finished a giant blanket with an insanely complicated 'jughandle rib' stitch on it, so what do I know?)

Ceolas, the tree pattern you linked to rolled back the years for me!! I made one of my dc a gorgeous little pale green jumper with that pattern on the front, many, many moons ago. I'd completely forgotten about it until now.

It isn't that hard, you just need to keep tabs on exactly where you are.

My mum knitted this one for me in pale green...it is mostly moss stitch appaently. It is gorgeous.

www.debbieblissonline.com/books/bc/bc_4.htm

I have the book so could photocopy pattern if yuare interested.

I like the entrelac one, but it will be a bit hairy to knit - lots of increases and decreases, and how is that border done?

I think your mother was being a bit modest in her description of it ...

nqc

have just knitted this, with bobbles, was quite easy:

dolly bag

I don't think bobbles are that hard, necessarily, but they don't appear to be a skill I have. I did a castle with a bobble in it for one of the MN blankets, and it really looked quite pustular.

lol.
i used a crochet hook to pull the loops through, which helped make it less pustular

(I'll have to do the finishing up on my current blanket, which is huge and quite complicated, and post photos. My only problem right now is, it took 9 or 10 balls of yarn, and none of the darning needles I have in the house work with the thick yarn, iyswim.)

oh bum. have lots of darning needles. i had opposite problem the other week, needles too fat to fit glass beads on which I needed to knit into v technical cushion i'm making.

Pustular, that gets my vote for word of the week, going to find any excuse I can to drop it into conversation (Yes I know, my life is v. sad and it doesn't take a lot to please me)

i like hairybabysmum's blanket.