Genius Hour 2.5

This week I was waiting for my yarn to come in, so I could start my blanket, but I had a little bit of extra yarn. I started on a different project, which is a flower rug. You start by casting on 80 stitches then you knit a row. Then you knit two stitches together, which is a new technique I had to practice, but then that leaves you with 40 stitches. You then repeat that, knit and knit two together pattern, until you are down to 20 stitches. I have not done the next step yet, but you are supposed to sew them together, so it looks like a flower instead of a line. This is how they turned out, I rolled them up so they look like the flowers, but have not sewed them together yet.

I think I will continue with my rug when I am done with my blanket, but I wanted to practice knitting before I started knitting my actual blanket. So, I took my extra yarn that I had and practiced the knits I was going to have to do for my blanket. This is how my practice knitting came out.

Then my actual yarn came in, so I started on my blanket. For the pattern to make the blanket, you have to take one stitch and turn it into two stitches, then knit four stitches normal, slip two stitches over to the other needle, do a normal stitch, then take the two slip stitches over the last knit stitch. When you take those slip stitches over it decreases your number of stitches, then you knit four more, and then take the last stitch and make it into two stitches like you did with the first one. That is one row of stitches, then you knit the next row normally, and continue that pattern until it is at the length you want. This is how it is looking so far.

I am pretty far ahead of my plan, so I am hoping to get quite a bit of my blanket done before this genius hour is over. I have not struggled too much with doing my genius hour this time, because I have really enjoyed the process.