Update on Persian Dreams

Tot likes to eat the yarn tails that are coming off each hexagon, so he only gets to see them (and sunsequently try to eat them) when I bring them out from their hiding place!

Hopefully you haven't forgotten about the monster project that I decided to take on during this summer, because I know I haven't! The Persian Dreams blanket is still floating around my WIP, and it seems like it has made a rather comfortable home there! I thought that it was completely feasible to have it done by the end of summer, but oh boy, was I wrong! I'm currently on hexagon number seven, and I have seventeen (!!!) more to go. Most of those are just repeats of my current hexagons, but there's still a large chunk of knitting to be done! Add that in with the inevitable Christmas knitting disaster, and some interesting things might happen. Hopefully I get all the pieces done by the end of the year, and then spend the entirety of next year trying to seam it all together without ripping all my hair out. I just have to remember how beautiful (and huge and squishy) this blanket is going to be, and hopefully that's enough to keep me going. And who knows, maybe if this one goes swimmingly enough, I'll get up the courage to actually try the pattern not using my cheaters method of my white main color and then only one contrasting color! I'll actually do the stranded colorwork all the way through and I will actually be having the time of my life while I do it! There is a slim chance of this happening, but I want to think that I have the knitting expertise or maybe the sheer stupidity to at least try it!

This pattern has continued to be wonderful and easy to read, and for that I have to give all of my thanks and my love to the designer, Jenise Hope. It's so satisfying to finish one hexagon over a few days rather than take on the entire, gigantic project all at once. It makes me feel like I'm accomplishing so much more, especially when I can get several of the hexies blocked and actually see the blanket that's coming together. I'll probably try a similar constructed blanket when (or if) this project is ever done. I've had my eye on The Beekeeper's Quilt for some time, and it's done in the same way, except there's about four million little tiny hexagons instead of twenty-four large ones. But think of the accomplishment you would feel after completing just one tiny hexagon, or four, in one day! Instant morale booster, I'm telling you. That will have to be put on the queue until this monster is finished! I'll include the pictures of the hexagons that I've finished so far, and hopefully I'll be able to do a similar update next month sometime with even more finished hexagons!