The next blanket

The next blanket, #201, contains more red, along with pink, beige and some green and blue.  There is also nice yellow and orange.

The nice red wool came from a bag of odd yarn.  I like bags where you can't see the content clearly because of the fun of opening it up and seeing what you've bought.  In this bag I could see some nice dyed sock yarn, and there was more good quality Lang sock yarn, very nice knitting despite the bright shades.  The red yarn was knitted into some odd shapes, intended as a bag I think.  It was knitted doubled, in a very tight tension in an aran pattern, painfully tight.  Intended as a substitute for felting?  I unravelled it and was surprised to find it completely straightened after washing, so it must be pure wool.  Here I included it as a regular red stripe, and there is more for another blanket.

The next blanket

This is the blanket, #200, where I learnt to appreciate white.  I have complained about the colour before.  In the process of rearranging my yarn I brought all the whites together, and gasped at the amount.  I decided to do a blanket in white only, with one strand of lavender sock wool.  After about 25 cm I decided the knitting was too boring, and I didn't like the result much either, so contrary to my principles of not unpicking blankets, I did, and reknitted it as a standard blanket, #200.  This was much more satisfying.  I did two regular white stripes, but here they are barely obvious.

The number #200 is not significant.  The numbering came about when I started entering the blankets in a spreadsheet in 1995.  Rows 1 and 2 were headings, so the first blanket was #3.  But before then I knitted some 20 blankets that were entered manually in a notebook, and it should still be around, somewhere.