A Bluestocking Knits

Lost a brilliant, jet-lagged post last night, going back from the Preview page to fix a typo. Gah.

I went to Tall Mouse the other day, having had craft-store withdrawal for the past few months — found that they have expanded the yarn section to include something besides eyelash yarns! — and bought nine hanks of Araucania Nature Wool, in a gorgeous ruby-red.

I’ve been thinking that I’ll make a variation on the "Big Bad Baby Blanket" from the first "Stitch ‘N Bitch" book, for my first "Baby Knitalong" project.  The Araucania has a fascinating ombre color play, that works up into, well, not stripes as such, more little surges of color.  I want these color variations to go in different directions in the four blocks, though, so that there won’t be a "right way up" — this makes it much more complicated than the original, of course, but so be it.

I decided, though, that green would be a better color for a baby blanket — more likely to go with whatever baby clothes arrive….