but I'm knitting my boyfriend a blanket. I innocently asked him last year, "hey, would you like it if I made you a blanket using the Brown colors?" (he's very into school spirit) His eyes lit up and he said the eight fateful words "Can you put the Brown crest in it?"
I, being the overly-confident expert knitter, said "If that's what you really want, yes, I can do it."
And so, here I am:
You see that sticker? I scanned that into the computer, put a graph on top of it, and went on my painful intarsia way. It took a long time to graph it. It's gonna take a long time to knit it. Even the colors are boring. But this is what he wanted. . .
It's supposed to be done in time for the holidays, and I hope to bring it with me to England when I go to visit him in December. So really, I have 2 months to do this blanket. The other squares will be solid brown and red squares, and the whole thing will have a border around it after I put the squares together. Each square will be about 20" wide, 90 sts across on size 7 needles.
Here's a detail shot:
(aparently, I recently decided I really love weaving in ends, especially a whole bunch of them at once on one project)Now, we are all aware of the sweater curse, right? Well, I feel like a blanket may be even more dangerous, if that's possible. Add the fact that while knitting a blanket for my ex-boyfriend, our relationship went to hell and I spent the next 8 months miserable, and when we broke up he even kept the damn blanket. (and yes, it did turn out that it was "for the best" that we broke up, but it sure as hell hurt a whole lot, and he has my blanket!!)
So you can understand the title of this post, no?
As a sort of "crossing my fingers," I'm making it in Encore.
I’m crossing my fingers for you. It looks great, and good for you brave girl!
First time commenting, I think! IMHO, the curse only works if you believe in it, as per that movie that came out a couple months ago about the voodoo curse in a Southern state/city (I forget what it’s called, I only remember that the tagline was ‘it only works if you believe in it’)
Good luck with that blanket- I say your boyfriend is one lucky dude :-D
Encore as in “Here we go again?” Happy Knitting!
That’s what love is all about, taking chances. So, curse or no curse, we all keep knitting blankets, sweaters, socks etc. for our SOs. At least I do!
Curse Smurse! That blanket will be awesome. And c’mon…you’re knitting in the Brown crest! How could he not adore you after that???
gwen
September 30, 2005
Best of luck with the blanket. Now I feel guilty that I’ve never made one for my husband :) Your boyfriend is a lucky man.