Habitation Throw

I started the Habitation Throw back in August of last year. I won a pattern prize on the My Yarny Corner podcast and I chose this, it's been a lovely blanket to knit. The pattern is by Helen Stewart and it's written in a way so that you can use whatever amount and weight of yarn you've got, or make the blanket the size of your own choosing. It's knit on larger needles than usual for the yarn weight you choose, so the blanket is light and airy and has a nice drape. It doesn't need much concentration so it's what I've been reaching for on an evening when I've been watching TV.

The colours are very mismatched and haphazard but that was the plan, it was a project to use up some of the yarn I received in my yarny advent calendars which I opened in 2021 and 2022. Those advent calendars were a collaboration between many different yarn dyers and as such, the colours of each mini skein didn't follow any sort of order. I think it's fun how it's worked out though, such a riot of colour. It's been interesting to try yarn from so many different dyers, there's a few in there which I really enjoyed so I may purchase more of their yarn in the future.

I love how the i-cord edging is knit as you go so that you don't have to add it at the end. It finishes it off beautifully too.

I shall get back to my mitred square blanket again now that this is finished, I've still got quite a few squares on that one to go before it's finished but like the Habitation Throw, it's an easy knit which is what my brain needs at the end of the day.