HandmadeCozyLife

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Hand-knit Blankets

It takes at least two years to knit a blanket. I only know how to knit square scrubbers, so I knit a ton of those, and join them together.

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I knit blankets for both of my parents.

 

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Colorful ones.

 

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Here is a closeup of the stitch. It's pretty dense, so the blanket is warm.

 

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This one has slub and mohair mixed in.

 

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I even knitted in the character for "long life." As you can see, this involved some meticulous patchwork.

I don't have the kind of free time I had as a teenager anymore, so it would take far more than two years, but I still knit sometimes.