Resistance is futile...

...the force is too strong 😏  I find it really, really, really hard to just have one project on the go at any one time ~ a new pattern appears or a fresh idea pops into my poor little butterfly brain with alarming regularity 😄

I have managed to finish the "patchworky" stash-busting blanket, though, so I think I deserve a gold star for that ⭐ I've had another shuffle-round of our blanket collection and this latest addition is now residing on the sofa in the living room 😊 

Nope, it's not a giant antimacassar 😄  You may recall me chopping and changing my mind over the blanket I was making for our niece for Christmas? Well, I had a fair few of those humungous 400g balls of Aran yarn left and rather than just adding them to the ever-increasing stash, I decided to plunge straight in and make a blanket with them.

 The yarn (from Wool Warehouse, naturally 😉) is Sirdar Hayfield Bonus Aran Tweed in Honeycomb (which is what I ended up using to make Michaela's blanket) and Haze, along with Sirdar Hayfield Bonus Aran with Wool in Mill Blue, Light Natural, Green Heather, and Purple Heather.  I hadn't been keen on the colours placed together once I could see them in "real life" as it were, but I thought I might like it better if I alternated the colours with the Honeycomb shade to keep them separated.  I did order a little more of the Sirdar Hayfield Bonus Aran Tweed in the shade Plum to even out the balance of lighter and darker colours.

Once again I'm following my favourite chevron pattern from Jane Brocket's The Gentle Art of Knitting.  The original pattern uses a lot of different colours, as you can see in the version I made for my friend Olive which used twenty!  This time, though, I'm just using six "colours", each alternated with Honeycomb as a "neutral".  I'm using the colours in the same order throughout, and following the number of rows for each shade that is specified in the pattern ~ I really like the randomness of the number of rows and think it works well whatever colours are chosen.  I'm hoping to use it on our bed when it's finished but will probably need to frame it with a wide border to make it large enough to be a coverlet. 

This is going to be a pretty big blanket once it's finished, so needless to say I am alternating it with other projects ~ no, I still haven't finished poor Beverly's jumper.....but now that I've restocked my dishcloth stash, I have started making a shawl for your's truly 😄