Summer Blanket

I finally finished (and gifted) my Big Project of the summer: a blanket for my niece's dorm room.  She's one of my fave nieces (of literally 30 or so nieces and nephews), and I'm super proud of her for working so hard that she had her choice of schools to attend.  She may be going to the wrong SEC school, but I can probably overlook that and still be proud.  Maybe.  I guess.

This blanket was knit partly while watching endless episodes of Covert Affairs and Deadliest Catch, and partly in the car on a road trip (the car being the only place with enough a/c to make knitting a blanket in the summer even remotely bearable).  (Note to self: in the future, do not decide to wait until the hottest summer on record in the history of EVER to knit a huge blanket.)

link to the ravelry project

I chose the colors to match her dorm room and just kinda fooled around with parts of different zigzag patterns until I came up with something I liked.  I used Caron Simply Soft, which is not widely considered to be a super-awesome fancy yarn but knits so consistently, washes so easily, and is for real soft - one of the best choices for blankets, I think.  Also, it's fairly cheap, which - let's be honest here - factors into my yarn-buying decisions quite a bit.  The stripes follow a double fibonacci sequence, because I find it visually appealing and also I'm a huge nerd.

I'm psyched to say that she loves it, and promises to send pics when she gets her dorm room all set up.  Hooray!

this is what the blanket looks like when folded over a chair in front of a window

this is what the blanket looks like on my bed (clearly the colors were not intended to match anything I personally own)