Hemlock Ring Blanket – The End

Let me tell you a story.  A long, long time ago (October 2007) a princess started knitting a blanket. She made good progress and then was knitting edging when she ran out of yarn. The princess ran out to get more, but while winding it she pricked her finger and the blanket fell into a deep, deep sleep for over two years. One day the princess was looking for a ball of yarn for a new project, when she spotted the sad old blanket laying just inches away from being finished. She picked it to finish it only to discover she couldn’t replicate the edging. So she frogged and did the crochet edging instead and the blanket, after blocking, lived happily ever after.

Ok, so that’s a sort of true story. I was in my craft room looking for yarn to knit a scarf, when I spotted my forlorn blanket. I had about 18″ inches of edging to go and the new ball of yarn was already wound. So I figured I might as well finish it. The problem was that I couldn’t make the edging, as written in the directions, match up to what I had already done. I tried many times, but I finally gave up and frogged the whole thing.

I think I probably did the edging wrong to begin with, so it was almost impossible to figure out how to replicate it.  Rather than having to redo the whole thing, I decided to do the crochet alternative edging which took me less than an hour to do. The ironic thing is that the crochet edging requires much less yarn so I didn’t even need that last ball of yarn.

I blocked it out yesterday and today it’s dry. Yay!

Now to decided who to give it to.

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