cimorene

Our project to replace the synthetic blankets in our home with knitted ones is kicking up a notch, and what I mean by that is that we spent a few hours browsing blanket patterns and getting excited about it.

As I said when I originally mentioned this idea a few months ago, the basic aim is to get the polar fleece out of circulation in the household because of the unfriendly qualities of microplastics. Obviously this won't do anything about the microplastic problems on a global scale that are clogging up the gulf of Finland and collecting in the bodies of marine fish and birds, but the thing about them is that fleece fabrics shed them constantly, so simply not having any fleece fabrics exposed to wear in our flat will at least reduce the amount of them in our air and our washing machine. They'll also be longer-wearing while still washable and should greatly reduce the amount of static from long-haired bunnies in constant contact with blankets.

I just made this zigzag afghan out of worsted sock wool. We'll need another nice wool one for waxjism's use next winter.

Wax has nearly finished this beautiful Yggdrasil blanket out of bulky cotton, which will be a counterpane or bedspread because it's quite heavy and thick, but cotton, which makes it potentially awkward as an afghan in either summer or winter.

We already have a worsted-weight cotton afghan that we bought at Ikea last fall. It's eh. We also have a ton of dk bamboo yarn that should become a similar weight of blanket, probably Jared Flood's Umaro because I am in love with it although I'm not positive what the bamboo will blanket like.

We've got a blanket's worth of teal fingering-weight cotton that will become a cotton blanket in some kind of lace. We've also got some sport-weight white cotton, but less of it, so it will be a not-long-enough-for-sleeping afghan unless I knit it at a very loose gauge.

Then we will need at least one afghan in fingering-weight wool too, but we don't have the right wool for this yet. We'll likely use Finnish wool, and I have a mighty need for the Cicely rectangular blanket.