While the baby was sleeping...

I am a temporary stay at home mother until I start teaching in August. My son is 7 weeks old and still spends a lot of time sleeping. So this is what I've been working on while Shea is sleeping...

 

My motivation for this post as well as my latest project came from Lucy at Attic24. I am grateful for her free patterns as well as the encouragement to stick to a project as we see her works in progress. I made the blanket below using her hexagon pattern and throwing in a bit of this and that I came up with as well as ideas I pulled from other generous bloggers. The blanket is a birthday gift for my sister. Sorry it's not up for grabs. But I do sell custom blankets so let me know if you're interested. 

This is where it all started.

 

I used 7 colors of Red Heart Super Saver yarn...black, white, bright yellow, pale yellow, pretty in pink, petal pink, and turqua. The colors together remind me of a lemonade stand under a bright blue sky.  Then I got started on the first of 48 hexagons. The journey had begun!

 

What made this blanket so fun was that there was no strict pattern. No two hexis are the same. I used the fun Random Stripe Generator to randomly distribute the colors. Here is a sample of what was to come.

 

 

I made the edges using a combination of what Lucy used at Attic24 and the pattern found here.

 

 

The finished product came after about 18 total hours of work between diaper changings and tummy times and feedings...while Shea was sleeping.  Here is the final result.

 

 

Stringy Specs:
Blanket 44x38 inches
48 Hexagons (20 minutes each) plus a 4-row border (2 hours)...18 hours
11 skeins of yarns (364 yards each)...4004 yards
$3 each...$33
2.27 miles of yarn
33.33 football fields