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| Probably four by three feet? Something like that. |
For Christmas last year, I made my sister a giant squishy blanket, inspired by those roving blankets that are so popular
and that make me seethe. I, too, love the idea of enveloping myself in a cloud of sheepy goodness, but unspun roving will
disintegrate under normal use. Or any use, really. And then you’re sad and you’re out several hundred dollars and
all that fiber could have been turned into yarn.
So inspired by an internet friend, I set out to make a fleece version that wouldn’t felt or disintegrate, and I am
delighted
with it. I believe there are five yards of fleece—one each of the greys
and three of purple, cut into 2″ strips (or something, I used my thumb
to measure, don’t judge me) and sewn together at color changes. My knees
ached something fierce after cutting all that fleece into strips, but winding it into Heroic Scale balls of yarn was great fun.
Cast on
enough stitches to fill my arm wrist to shoulder (they’re scrunched in
the photo up there) and knit away (and thank goodness I’d learned to
knit backwards at some point, because it would have been
nightmarish to have to transfer the stitches back every row). That was also possibly the warmest I'd been all winter.
There
are some lumpy bits, since I decided to cut the yardage with a zigzag
and leave the corners blocky rather than going for perfect strips sewn
together, but it’s squishy and warm and delightful. If I did another one, I'd probably go for a bit more yardage at the outset to have wider strips—the thinner spots are a bit frail-feeling compared to the rest of the blanket—but otherwise the whole thing was delightfully straightforward. It also stretches pretty much forever in any direction you care to take it. Perfect for curling up with a book on a cold night.
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