This is a blanket for my sister's first baby.

I have waited a long time to be an aunt...and even longer to design this blanket.

Fold upon fold to keep the eye guessing

What do you think? It's kind of CRAZY isn't it...

This blanket looks different each time it's put down...

It takes of from "Beach for a baby boy", but instead of using interlocking tubes it uses knitted in flaps.

I've used short flaps ond fat puffy ones with plain knitting in between.

I've broken the blanket into thirds and varied the height of the waves so that they undulate up and down.

I made them out of sync to accentuate the difference and really push the blanket into the 3rd dimention.

The back is made to look as interesting as the front.

You see, his father is an architect so I thought he might want to teach him about shapes and spaces? Here's a quick video showing the yarn and what I was thinking about when I selected it.

Turns out the baby is a boy so the blues are in reference to that...but not those mucky or old blues that are usually trotted out for baby colours...the most vibrant ones I could find. Well, I'm his Aunt so I have to tell him how wonderfully fab-o nature is, how colours have the energy to pick you up and take you for a ride. Maybe even a surf.

Shapes and spaces keep cropping up.

The hot pink bits are my signature. 

Imagine what you will with it, the picture keeps changing...just like the ocean.

T he pattern is being written up in patternapedia.

For each child I have had, knitting their blanket has been an important part of welcoming them.

Blankie for a miscarried baby.

My friend Carolyn grew up on the mountain.She lived in a rambling old garden with horse paddocks. She  would get lost in there for days, exploring all the nooks and crannies, avenues and secret spaces....

the pencil holder was a gift from a wood turner

Now she loves to draw the flowers from her ancient garden. 

Well, Kind of...I brought one of those new Addi Express tube knitters. Some people call them sock knitters. It also does 18 stitch wide straight knitting. White it wasn't the answer to my prayers (a small, light, portable and easy to use knitting machine that can be adjusted) it's amazing what you can do with a simple tubel format and in just a few minutes!

Here are my 12 different coloured tubes with alternating light and dark grey

Introducing the Antique Clock Rose.

Here it is with plump leaves and varigated pink petals

I plonked it on a hat I knitted for my daughter. The hat is a simple tube with a rib edge and gathered up at the top before the rose is knitted on. 

Here's my inspiration for the hat and rose

I'm annotating the pattern and will teach it online soon, so sign up for the newsletter in the meantime. 

You've just never tried!

I used 2 different mothods for making these circles.

Now all I have to do is work out what to do with them!

Once I made the circles I sewed them together

Why all the blankets?

My son loved the bees the best.

Fashion comes and goes.

I started knitting blankets as a way of getting ready for the arrival of my children.

Use double sided knitting to create a textile .

Double sided knitting with graduated vine border using Noro yarn

This looks beautiful draped over a couch or chair and is as warm as toast. 

Want to see the colour of oestrogen?

The colours I HAD to knit while waiting to have my daughter.

When I was expecting my daughter, I couldn't find pinks or reds strong enough or bright enough!