I have done a little work lately on the Boats for Cameron blanket for my niece. It's still nowhere near finished, but it's getting there. I'm almost completely done with the boat panels and then I move on to the cable panels. Once the cables are done, I'll work on the border, and that is pretty much just plain knitting and/or purling per each row, so it will be fairly mindless.

I took progress pictures today, finally. I'm hoping to work on it more this week but I won't do another round of pictures until the cables are done.

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This is all I have done so far - two complete panels and part of the third. The third panel is the final panel of boats (thankfully). I still need to block it (not sure how well Encore will block).


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Close up of the boat. Nothing fancy, just knits and purls.


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Hardware being used: Plymouth Encore 256 and 1908, double stranded, Denise needles, size 11


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Pattern location: Knit along with Debbie Macomber - The Shop on Blossom Street (page 20 - Boats for Cameron)


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The pattern has been blocked out, but all the other details left in tact along with an image of what the blanket really should look like. I'm making this blanket purple and cream because purple was one of the colors my sister chose for the nursery. I'm also not using bulky yarn, but am doubling my yarn. It seems to be working out well so far, and I think we'll wind up with a decent sized blanket in the end.


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Live stitches patiently waiting to be attached to the border at some point.


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Two row counters - one for the repeating pattern and one for the entire panel. The second counter is really superfluous but it makes me feel better for some reason.


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Lifeline - I know it's probably not even necessary for a pattern such as this, but since I have so little time to knit and Sophie has such curious little hands, I figure it's better to be safe than sorry. Just before I start each pattern repeat, I put the lifeline in place. I'm not sure how I'll do that with the cable panels (or if I'll bother at all).



If I actually take time to work on the blanket as I should, I will be able to get the boat panels done this week for certain. Of course, that's if nothing else interferes. I'm pretty sure B wants to be able to park in the garage again someday so that means we need to get cracking on the eBay stuff out in the garage which will cut into knitting time, I'm sure. Perhaps I'll knit a bit during Sophie's nap tomorrow and then work on eBay templates tomorrow night. I seriously cannot wait for this blanket to be done. There are so many projects I want to start, but I've vowed to not start another project until this blanket is completed. It's not that I don't want to do it. I'm sure I won't have time to knit anything else I want to knit, either.

Here's holding out hope there will be new progress pictures soon!