Not My Best Work

I found the most amazing scarf pattern on Ravelry here. I really, really, really want to make it. However I have too many things already on the go, so I've decided that not only am I absolutely going to use yarn that I already own, but I can have a go only when I've finished the multicoloured blanket I started months ago and the baby blanket I started last week. I plan to look at the pattern every day to give me an incentive to get knitting. I hope to be able to sell the baby blanket, and I was planning to donate the multicoloured blanket, but the multicoloured blanket isn't really good enough. It's been years since I knit something so shaky.

It's supposed to be a column of stocking stitch with most of the blanket in plain knitting. It looks more like a cable in the way it's twisting all over, and blocking is unlikely to help because it's 100% acrylic. I've even got a hole!

And I have no idea how I managed that. I'm usually good at avoiding holes. But I've got maybe a quarter to a third done.

It's around 50 inches across and around 20 inches long at the moment. By the way, the combination of the camera on my phone and the lighting doesn't show the colours well. From the bottom, the colours are red, purple, bright orange and teal at the top.

Anyway, although it's not fit to either sell or donate, it's light, soft and surprisingly warm, so it will be lovely here and I'll work out a different blanket to donate. 

Hugs and good health to all.