Behind the Scenes of: The Freddie Blankie

Behind the Scenes of: The Freddie Blankie

Dusting off the ol' knitting needles

Following my most recent market, I decided to treat myself and allowed some time to design a baby blanket. This is a habit I hope to keep up with after every show. The creative side of the business is the only side that I most consistently have the motivation for. Each time I pick up my yarn and needles or hook I always receive instant gratification with each stitch I add to any project. Your progress is in plain sight right in front of you! 




So, to reward all the prep and work that it takes to do a market, my brain got to pick up my knitting needles and see where the yarn was going to take me. IF I am I being honest - I had to throw a search party around my house to find these darn needles.

For months I have been working on a Spring/Summer collection which happened to consist of 100% crocheted items. 

That same Spring/Summer collection was brought to the Market I did in Halifax and I wrote a blog about it here. 

Keeping with the theme of said collection, I am hoping the motivation strikes soon to take some photographs so that they can be displayed for your viewing and shopping purposes here.

Baby steps... after all, it's a one woman show that's running this thing here. One thing at a time:)

 

The Goal of the Pattern

I wanted this pattern to be simple and easy to comprehend while also empowering the knitter with inspirations for infinite possibilities of color combinations. 

If you can cast on, knit, purl, change colors here and there, and cast off, then you can make this blankie with a lot of discipline and a lot of patience.

If you struggle with discipline or patience, you're somewhat in luck! My patience certainly ran thin once the magnitude of this project was realized about 1000 stitches in. Now, roughly 21,300 stitches later, I can tell you that the design I had in mind and the design that is coming out are two different things for that reason.

 

The Design 

Originally I thought I would only use 2 colors for the Freddie Blankie, but I just got so bored with the repetition. Adding a third color in the form of a thicker stripe seemed to cure that boredom pretty quick. The stripes have 4 sections consisting of 5, 4, 3 and 2 stripes respectively and intentionally. The intention is to keep your brand looking forward to the next stripe as well as focused on the current mini project (the stripe) inside of the bigger project (the blankie). 

 




Call it what you will, but these little design tricks are the only thing helping me get through this thing right now!


The Name

What I am about to type may inflict a particular song to be stuck in your head for a little while following this read, proceed with caution.


The name runs a little deep, but to keep it concise, I have my own blankie from my childhood that is still with me. And I really and truly brought that thing everywhere as a kid. So much so, that everyone from my childhood pretty much knows about this blankie. 


A little inside joke my mom would say to me before we would leave for anywhere would be to ask if I'm "Ready Freddie?". Before I could say yes, I had to make sure I had my blankie. 


As I knit this blankie, I find it hard not singing the lyrics to Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen. Knitting has always been a love/hate relationship for be although heavier on the love. But again, once that doom set in of how many stitches were ahead of me, that's a time where the hate part of the relationship sets in. 

"This thing, called love, I just, can't handle it"

The more I sang "can't handle it" the more I kept knitting. Make it make sense. 



Release Date

I do plan to get this pattern written up for all of my knitting friends! It will be available here on my blog and I will also have PDF versions available for purchase. My target release date is Thursday May 11, 2023. 




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