TH said: -wow, that kick’s a$$, honey. -That looks awesome.

I really like it when people say “wow” about the WoW blanket. I do love a good pun.

It is finished… the Alliance Lion on a blue background and it is the size of a twin bed! The ends have been woven in and TH is using it. I may put a border on it and back it at some point, but for now, I’m just glad to be finished with it. And for those that are keeping track at home, the blanket took me just under a year (I may have been distracted by baby blankets a couple of times along the way).

At one point, TH asked if I’d be ticked if a knitter had my pattern and knitted up a blanket in like a week. I said no, I wouldn’t. The fastest knitter in the world knits 86 sts per minute and that’s straight knitting, not fair isle following a chart. Let’s be generous and say she could do 43 sts/min. fair isle. This blanket is 102,000 stitches give or take. It would take her 39 hours and 30 mins. of straight knitting. So, if it would take the fastest knitter in the WORLD a week, I’m fine with it taking me a year. Fortunately for me, this will not be an issue as Blizzard (creators of the World of Warcraft universe) has spoken and I’m not able to distribute the pattern.

Perhaps this month, my knitting and crocheting purpose is to serve as a warning to others.

I started on a speed blanket (my 4th, mind you) and happily measured that it would be 29 inches wide. I worked on it a little bit and was happy with the yarn. Then, I flattened it out for a group of crocheters and onlookers and said, “that looks too skinny to me, does that look too skinny to you?” and they all agreed that it should be wider. I measure it and sure enough….it is about 23 inches wide, which is MUCH too narrow.
So, I will rip it out and start again and this time, I think I will start with 35 inches wide in case standard deviation strikes again.

Dear friends of mine had a baby boy not too long ago. He has two older sisters. The girls each have a hand-crocheted blanket.

The oldest little girl has a blanket made by her great-grandmother.


I made a copy for little girl #2 since I have a soft spot in my heart for second daughters, what with me being one and all.


Then, the little boy came along, so he gets his own blanket. A speed hooked blanket ( with a lovely pomp-a-doodle edging (pom-pom parade yarn from Herrschners- it was very soft). I was thrilled to be working in blue and excited to try this new edging (from Crochet Today! magazine). I only did two rounds of pom poms rather than the 6 the pattern called for since I didn’t want to have a lot of white. I have it on good authority that darker colors make great edgings, but this was the only pom pom color I liked with the blue…hope he likes it!!