Chocolate Covered Cherries arrived in the mail today, yay! I love receiving packages!! I couldn’t wait to get started and am already about half way done. It may even be ready to send along by tomorrow! 
Auburnchick, please get the other knitter ready and forward me her address whenever possible as I know that I will be ready to send it right along very soon!
And thank you to wsnels for the gift!!! Very nice I will totally use them!
WELL… Lets just day April Fools and call it good.
(sorry it took me forever to respond work got in my way)
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Snowball is on its way to Janet in Seattle:
0487 8510 5100 0207 4848
Fruity Pebbles is on its way to Sarah in Sacramento:
0487 8510 5100 0207 4831
I’m trying to post an ‘after my section of Fruity Pebbles’ picture, hoping it works this time:
I hope I did everything okay with these blankets, can’t wait to work on more!
Enjoy!
Ooh! :cheering: I’m soo excited about receiving Fruity Pebbles, I love this Oddball Knitting thing! You get to receive packages in the mail (always exciting) and you don’t have to pay for it (even better) and you get to knit (woo hoo)! It’s all so fantastic. cloud9
AN-Y-WAAAYS… I finished my section of Chocolate Covered Cherries (I hope I did everything right… 
) and I will try to send it out tomorrow, if not definitely by Wednesday.
Here’s Chocolate Covered Cherries now with a close-up as well. It was sooo strange, the pattern that comes out in the pictures of the first section does NOT appear that way in real life. I can’t even see the pattern like that when I look at it… STRANGE. It’s like an optical illusion or something.
BTW are there any other blankets that need to be worked on? Sign me up for anything and everything, this is so much fun!
Also, depending on the pattern you can always just cut off the pattern midway. In example, with a diamond pattern you should complete the diamond ideally, but if the number of stitches would leave you with 3/4 of a diamond, just do that! 
That’s what I would do anyways. It’s going to be hard to find patterns that can always coincide with the number of stitches you have.
The blanket is beautiful! It’s also strange how differently the colors show in pictures (will all of the blankets).
Oh, and I agree, receiving packages that you didn’t purchase is amazing fun.
:o)
Has the Busy Bee (I think that’s the right name) blanket been started? I’m working on practicing the bee stitch and found these instructions:
1: Knit
2: k1, *k1 in st below, k1; repeat from * across
3: Knit
4: k2, k1 in st below, *k1, k1 in st below; rep from * to last 2 sts, k2
Repeat these 4 rows.
Does that seem correct? I want to make sure I know what I’m doing before my turn comes for this fun blanket!
Thanks!
Working on these blankets can be very addicting!!!
I just put your name down for Busy Baby Bee.
Thanks!!
Here are the instructions that Sepenguins posted over on Ravelry:
Here are the directions for the Bee stitch for the Busy Baby Bee blanket that I am starting.
Taken from this dishcloth pattern : knittingknonsense.com
1: Knit
2: k1, k1 in st below, k1; repeat from across
3: Knit
4: k2, k1 in st below, k1, k1 in st below; rep from to last 2 sts, k2
Repeat these 4 rows.
I will also put the directions in the Blanket bag for everyone. I hope to get started this weekend on the blanket.
I don’t know if now is a good time to suggest new blanket ideas, but it seems like quite a few of our blankets should be wrapped up soon. I had an idea and wanted to get your guys’ thoughts on it.
I know that we have already done some monochromatic themed blankets, but I was wondering if we could do a blanket of all shades of yellow or green.
FYI to Auburnchick: Could you add “California Coast”, “Creamsicle”, to the list of completed blankets on the blog? And could you please add “Busy Baby Bee” and other blankets in progress on to the blog too? Thank you so much! I just want to see wherever I can sign up for new blankets!
Just curious, what’s the status of Strawberry Shortcake?
Another idea would be a jewel toned blanket of all the different colors. Similar to Jewel of the Nile (which I love by the way).
yeah… I’m really getting into this! 
Hi Sarah! I love the enthusiasm!
First, thanks for catching my lapse on the two blankets I left off of the list. I added them.
I also added Busy Baby Bee. You are on the list of knitters. We need one more person.
Strawberry Shortcake was completed. I added it to the “Completed” list as well. 
As far as your idea, I think we have done this kind of theme before (Pretty in Pink was one). We could certainly do another.
One thing I do want to say, though, is that I think we’re trying to finish up the current round of blankets. I think we’re all going to be ready for a break (except for those of you who recently joined our efforts).
Maybe there could be some brainstorming, and we could compile a list for when we get back started in late August/early September (roughly following the school calendar).
What does everyone think?
Sorry for the delay, Surf and Sand arrived on Saturday along with all the mail that we had held at the post office while we were on vacation. It is so pretty, I love all the different colors and stitch patterns.
Tania; Thanks for the lip balm and note cards. I was just running out of cards and was going to have to buy some…great timing.
Nathalie; I hate to think of taking a break from knitting on these fun projects (I’m one of the fairly new ones), but have no problem with it. Thanks for all you do…you are a great coordinator.
:woohoo:
I received Fruity Pebbles in the mail today! YAY! :woohoo: I am so disappointed that I will have to delay working on it as I a) have a big assignment that I must finish for school by tomorrow, and b) am almost done with a baby blanket that I have been working on for MONTHS! Thank you so much bailchri for the chocolate (it lasted all of a minute) and recipes and scoop! 
All so handy and awesome!!
Chocolate Covered Cherries is on its way to Janet in Seattle, Confirmation number: 0307 1790 0002 2129 5387
Quick question, has anyone ever had to pay more than $5.60 for shipping with confirmation for your blanket? I don’t know that distance even really makes a difference the way the system works… just wondering… hmmm. :??
Also, I was wondering too if there was ANY way that we could continue blankets into the summer. 
I totally understand auburnchick how some want to take a break, and I would even be willing to take on some of the coordinating responsibilities if you too wanted to take a break, but I know that there are a few newbies like myself who are so eager to keep on knitting and I hate to think I have to wait until the fall to get another blanket. 
I received Snowball today from Bailey along with lots of goodies. Thanks so much!. Must be off now as there’s lots of knitting and purling to do.
Purlingkitten
I sent out You are my Sunshine this morning to Tania in Calif. The confirmation # is 03080070000148077177. Hopefully this blanket makes a one way trip unlike the last blanket I sent south…Becky:knitting:
PS: I would like to take a little break for the summer, as I have commitments to make some baby sweaters and hats but am more than willing to keep going with this project in the fall.
Depending on where it is sent and in what type of packaging determines the amount of postage. I sent my last blanket to Calif. from Wa. in a padded envelope and I do believe with confirmation costs it was about $4.60. I have also sent larger blankets in priority boxes that now cost over $11.00 to send anywhere in the country. I hope this helps. Becky
The postage varies, depending on how far your package is traveling, along with the weight, of course. I buy and print my postage from usps.com, which offers a small discount. Every little bit counts.
I do not have a problem with everyone mailing their packages first class…to save money.
Times are tough right now, so any way we can save money will help everyone.
As far as the summer blankets, I have a couple of suggestions:
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If a couple of you want to work jointly on a blanket or two, then by all means feel free to do so. You can keep me in the loop by sending me the name of the blanket so I can add it to the running list.
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You could hop over to the Northeast Oddball project and see if they need help. Their group is much larger than our’s, and I know they are continuing work through the summer.
Our group is so small that most knitters are almost constantly working on blankets…hence the need for a break. Many of us use the summer to catch up on personal knitting projects. Plus, with travel, it makes it hard to coordinate the blankets.
Hope this helps…
Here’s a picture of Surf and Sand…it will be on it’s way this morning (once the post office opens)