Dichoptic Blog

Hello, hello, and welcome back! I have been completely consumed by working on the geode baby blanket and not much else happened during May so let’s hop in!

I have 2 WiPs at the moment. The Cyclone Hat by MyGurumi and the White Lily Blanket by Elena Fedotova.

The Cyclone Hat by MyGurumi, I mentioned last time, is a fun beanie with a twist (pun intended). The pattern itself isn’t available on Ravelry anymore but thanks to some helpful comments on the page linked above, someone was able to find a WayBackMachine version of it. I’m using RMR Yarn Co’s Rocio base in the OOAK and Por Ocho colorways. This has proven to be a nice mindless knit to work on as I watch TV or my husband play video games. But I was a little too mindless and there is one stitch that I messed up quite a ways back. I know it would never be noticeable but I’m still contemplating laddering back to fix it. Other than that this has been a fun one but not one that has been pulling me in so I made pretty little progress.

The second WiP is what I’m calling the Geode Blanket. I’m using the White Lily Blanket pattern by Elena Fedotova I mentioned last month with a few tweaks. Instead of being a symmetrical square type shape the original pattern makes I’m going for more of a teardrop. To plan out the color changes I created a grid in GIMP a free image manipulation program and then filled in each triangle trying to recreate the geode. I’m about 70 hours into this one. 20 of those was redoing work I had already done. 😦 I was working and joining each triangle as I worked. I believe the pattern says to join work by going into the back loop only of the triangle you are joining too but I didn’t like how it looked. So instead I was joining going under both the front and back loop. For the single color it looked great but as I got to the second color the joins meant the chain top of the dark blue was coming to the medium blue side and vice versa. At first I was just going with it and convinced myself it would be fine. But as I was halfway through the light blue color I decided I didn’t like it after all. I ended up taking all of the triangles apart and trying a few different joining methods. I settled on {yarn over (loop 2), insert hook in 3rd loop of triangle I’m joining to (loop 3), insert hook through stitch on triangle I’m working on, yarn over, pull up a loop (loop 4), yarn over (loop 5), pull through loops 4 and 2 (3 loops remain), yarn over (loop 6), pull through loops 5, 3, and 1 (finished stitch)}. Not sure if that makes sense but I’ll try to add some photos or a video here of the process. With this new method the colors stay on their respective sides (for the most part) and I think it looks a lot cleaner. Now that I’m back on track (after a 20 hour detour) progress is going great and I’m hoping to finish it up this month!