Football is great for knitting!

Especially if the knitting is a garter stitch blanket.
I really like how this yarn works up. It has a nice stitch definition and until everyone else goes out and tries it, it's not expensive at all.
Granted that will change when it starts flying off the shelves.

I worked on this all day Saturday watching football. 

I tend to knit faster when I am seriously into something I'm watching. 

That wasn't the case during the Alabama game last weekend. It was a walk in the park so it was slow and steady knitting.

Ole Miss? Yeah, I expect some speed knitting to be going on this Saturday.

As you can tell by the pictures, this blanket grew fairly quickly. And I love the not so girly, but girly, colors of this yarn. So much so that I bought two more skeins to finish Sissy B's blanket in time for Christmas. And two skeins for Grandbats #6,7 & 8
I did end up having to add the smidge from another skein to finish this up. I measured the width at 28" so I wanted the length to be the same.

And here she is! All finished up. 28x28 perfect car seat, throw in the diaper bag, drag around with baby size. I haven't washed it up yet to see how the yarn holds up. I can't imagine it getting any softer than it already is, but we will see.
It is in the drawer with the receiving blanket and burp cloths and bib, waiting for prep day.

 

Up next I found the cutest pattern online for a rag quilt. 

It looks fairly simple and Wally World sells fat quarters for like 97 cents. I bought all they had in the pattern I want, just waiting on them to get some more in so I can get that finished as well.

This is the pattern I am going to start with

30 Minute Baby Quilt

I love these! They look really cute and easy! 

That's the name of the game, Easy Baby Projects for BB

Have you tried arm knitting yet?

 My DD #1 has always been more of a tomboy. She was tougher than most boys her age, and had her Mama's mouth. 

So I was happily surprised to see her slowly become domesticated. 

Sewing cloth napkins and selling them to make extra money.

And apparently she's really good at it. (proud Mama voice)

   Rae's Crafts FB Page

 Then she decided that arm knitting would be a good family project her and the kids could do together during a night of t.v. watching. 

I never really took much notice of arm knitting, figured it was a fad that would fade pretty quickly. I mean like really?!? 

But she got so excited about it, I decided to give it a looksy. And now I have, yes! have to! knit one of these! 30 minutes! A whole, warm, snuggly blanket! You know I would have to try. 

So of course being a visual person, I started with YouTube and found a couple of good videos.

How To Arm Knit A Blanket for Beginners 

That would be me. I like the CO in this version.

Which led me to this video

How To Arm Knit A Blanket

DIY Arm Knitting

A couple of tutorial videos

Arm Knitting Lesson 2

You can purl too

Needless to say, I can't start anything new while gift knitting season is upon me. 

But as soon as it is over I am going to try this whole arm knitting thing.