Fibonacci Blanket

During the holidays last year, I treated myself to some beautiful cotton yarn with the goal of making a smaller sized blanket.  I wanted knitting that was portable so the idea was to knit long panels and then bring them together.  

I purchased Berroco cotton yarn in color ways Waterman (1685), Tiverton (1623), Gadwall (1608) and Bluffs (1600).

I cast on 68 stitches on a size 7 needle. To reduce rolling, the first few rows (and the last 3) are a KKP repeat. 

My goal is to switch colors following a Fibonacci series (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8) as measured in inches.  I started with the dark gray color for 8" then switched to the blue for 5".  As I started, I only roughly measured these larger sections - which means I'll need to count the rows so everything matches up.  But then I realized that every 6 rows = 1" so there will be more accuracy moving forward.

This project was good knitting during my daughter's hospital stay.  No goal for when I will finish - just relaxing stuff.

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Postcard Swap

Happy quilting mail!!

My local MQG guild just did a postcard swap.  A quick fun project to send in the mail to another guild member.  My postcard arrived as a friendly hello - made during our local guild retreat - by Intuit.  (Check out her IG stream for a photo of her holding the postcard at the beach!)

For my swap recipient, I made a small FG rainbow using some of my favorite scraps!

The swap was great fun and I'm very happy that I participated.

Have a wonderful day! Patty

One Monthly Goal April Linkup

Welcome to April!

New to One Monthly Goal?  Welcome!  To join, share a photo of your project plus, some words about what you want to accomplish in a blog post, an Instagram post (tutorial) or a post on Flickr and add that photo to the link-up.  Return at the end of the month and share your results.  (Results link-up opens for the last 7 days of the month.)

My goal for April is to complete at least half of the quilting on my Orange Slice quilt.   The quilt is basted and I've used a chalk pencil to mark some of the designs and the plan is to give each clamshell a different motif.  Read more about the quilt.

Now it is your turn to link up - what is your goal for this month?   The One Monthly Goal accomplishment linkup will be available on April 24.  Make sure you add a link to this OMG post so others can find the OMG link-up from your blog.  Let's make that easy -  just paste this into your post:  

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal April Link-up

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Have a wonderful day! Patty