Thanks to SalmonMac for finishing help and GrumpyGramma for her continued friendship and cheerleading!
Took a 6 month break from knitting, so this is my first finished object, first project of any kind, since early December. Baby honey blanket by craftling designs in lion brand ice cream cotton blend (lemon, variegated) and just yarn cotton multi (yellow, variegated). It’s for a very special family friend’s new baby girl. Lots of twisted stitches and garter. Asymetric to reflect natural honeycomb.
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This is a treasure, one of the outstanding baby blankets ever! Well done.
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This is wonderful, I am sure the baby loved it.
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Hello. Your blanket looks fantastic! I’d like to know what you would rate it in the “ease of knitting” department??? Is it pretty simple to do? In ravelry.com the pattern costs 4 GBP (whatever that means) and I would prefer to know if I can actually do the pattern first before I buy it and THEN find out I can’t do it!!!
So any help u can give is greatly appreciated!!!
Knitcindy
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hi cindy!
thanks for the kudos, much appreciated!
i wouldn’t rate this as a hard item… but it was one that required paying attention. there’s a ton of garter, but because the ‘honeycomb’ bits are asymmetrical and there are ‘missing’ pieces of them, you can’t count on everthing being the same every row. in fact, the pattern is written out line-by-line and is 7 pages long. there’s a basic schematic, so you know what it should look like when finished, but there’s no chart.
if you have, and are comfortable with using, charting software… i’d suggest taking the time to chart it out so you can just have quick-reference pictures instead of reading everything every time. i kept the pattern to do again some day, and i know if i do it, i’ll make and use a chart.
i’d likely also do it in the round and steek it at the end… even though that means a lot of purling in order to get garter stitch, it’d be so much easier for reading the ‘knits’ themselves. i kept flipping it back and forth between right and wrong side to doublecheck myself… and could have skipped all that if the right side was facing me the whole time.
there are NO ‘hard’ stitches in it… knits, purls, slip stitches, normal right twists (k2tog then knit first sttich again before putting both new stitches on right needle), normal left twists (knit 2nd stitch through back loop, then k2tog through back loop before putting both new stitches on right needle)… and there are alternates for those twisted stitches too, i looked up videos on youtube before i started.
hope that helps, let me know if you need more info. happy knitting! 
cheers, 'topher
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