A friend of mine is expecting a son sometime in the VERY near future. His love of comics, and is astonishing ability to create them (just check out some of the things he does on his blog:
Brand X Blog, where he is a smokin' pencil for hire). Not only is he exceptionally talented in creating images with pencil, ink and paper; he also delves into the digital arts. Here's sort of a self portrait he created (I love it):
This seemed like the perfect opportunity to create a project for one of my favorite audiences: BABIES! They can't tell you they don't want to wear it, they are at the mercy of their parents sense of style. If an infant doesn't like wearing something you've knitted, the crying exhibited can be easily blamed on 1) gas, 2) dirty diapers -perhaps an active display of displeasure towards a project that no sane person would considering wearing- 3) general fussiness. In short, you can torture small humans with knitted and crocheted gifts and there is nearly nothing they can do about it. Meanwhile, if they happen to smile while wearing or touching one of these handcrafted disasters, it is clearly as sign that they adore what you made for them... nevermind the dancing stuffed animal that they're looking at.
Considering the source of the new bundle, I started to look for something with the Green Lantern logo. I found a chart for a tunisian crochet (and interesting technique that I have yet to try) by
Maria Merleno on Ravelry. It cited that the pattern was available on associated content website, but I couldn't find it. After some tedious counting on the image they provided I duplicated it and have posted it
here (with some graph lines). Still, I wanted to do single stitches, but my gauge wasn't exactly 1:1. I decided to double all of the numbers, so that it was twice as high and twice as wide. I had to tweak the rows between for a smoother transistion on the curves, and it seems to have come out pretty decently. The finished project, complete with scalloped edging, and slip stitch finishing where color changes take place has already been shipped! I'm such a procrastinator, it is astonishing to think that this blanket will be delivered before the little man is!
