on the needles: busy bee blanket

Hello, and happy Sunday!

I'm still knitting away on my busy bee blanket-- I'm up to 77 puffs!

Here's one of my favorite little clusters.

I just made this strawberry puff yesterday-- The seeds are actually tiny seed beads.  It's one of my favorites so far!

These striped puffs are the colorful single-ply left over from this yarn, navajo plied (3-plied with itself).  

And here's the whole blanket so far!  

It's about 19" by 22" at the moment, and I think I'm going to start joining the hexipuffs together when it's about three times as long and twice as wide.  I still have a long way to go on it, especially since I'm not planning on knitting exclusively on the blanket for the entire time.  But the process is just as fun as the finished blanket will be.

I hope you're having a wonderful day-- It's snowing here!  Yay!
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on the needles: busy bee blanket

Happy Saturday!

I've been knitting away on my busy bee blanket, and I'm up to 52 hexipuffs.

it's growing!  I've knitted three more hexipuffs since I took this picture yesterday.

Since it's my busy bee blanket, I naturally needed to make a bee puff!  It's one of my favorites so far.
The little guy on the left is going to be a gnome, I just need to get tiny black beads for his eyes.


And a fox puff!  I love the little black tips on his ears, and his shiny eyes.

I hope you're having a wonderful  autumn weekend!  It's chilly and gray here, so I'm going to curl up with a cup of tea and some knitting and a good book.
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on the needles: busy bee blanket!

Happy Thursday, everyone!

I mentioned on Monday that I had a fun new knitting project-- and here it is!

I've started the beekeeper's quilt!  It's a blanket made of lots of little hexagonal puffs (affectionately known as hexipuffs!).  

Here's one of my favorites-- a little cottage puff!

And here's my speckled egg puff.

And sometimes Bucky tolerates having them balanced on his head.

I'm up to 23 hexipuffs after a week of alternating them with working on my Moonpie Shawl.

The shawl is now finished, so until I cast on something else (maybe a sweater from Little Red in the City?), I'll be knitting away on these little guys full time!  I'm going to hide little treasures sewn among the hexipuffs, too-- little antique keys I've collected, sparkly beads, a vintage subway token, and whatever other little bits and pieces I find!  Eeeeeep I'm so excited about it!  This is going to be a long-term project, so I'll have lots of time to accumulate pretty things to put in.  Also, if you're knitting your own beekeeper's quilt, I'd love to trade mini-skeins of sock-weight yarn!  Just leave a comment or send me an email at julie@julierosesews.com.

Have a wonderful day!

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