Rework of blanket

 I said I would put up some pictures of Iona as I reworked her. Here is the first square. Yes, I am making it a double sided blanket - means I don't have to worry about all those ends. While doing this, I am still working on my hybrid blanket - the 10-stitch/log cabin blanket. That is also being worked as a double sided blanket, and again, because it means I don't have to worry about all those ends. 

Anyway, here is the first square of Iona.

 

Just don't

I have decided - for reasons beyond understanding - that my Iona blanket needs a facelift. This is a blanket that I completed and has been on the bed for over a year. It needs to be unpicked - the sewing - which as you can imagine after such a long time, is no easy job!!! Why I do this to myself is really beyond me, even though I know it will look sor of better once is it redone. It does, of course, require me knitting some new squares, but that is half the fun- isn't it? At least this is a pattern that I am very familiar with, so it won't be too hard of a job. 

If you ever think of unpicking something that has been completed for some time - think really hard about it. Part of me is regretting this, but part of me also knows it is going to all work out in the end. Anyway, I've unpicked too many panels now to stop. Just have to keep going now.

I will post pictures once I've started reassembling the whole thing. 

Further to hybrid blanket

 In an earlier post I said I was trying out a hybrid blanket. Well . . . I have been thinking about that, and decided it wasn't really working out as a true hybrid. So, while knitting the next log cabin section of said blanket, I got to thinking. Why not try it as a true hybrid? I'm sure someone has done this before, although I've not seen it. So, I frogged that section, recast on. I am trying the ten stitch as the first two rounds, and then will do the next two rounds as log cabin. The final round will also be log cabin style. Fingers crossed this works.