We’ve watched Rebekah put this beautiful Mitered Crosses Blanket together for Kevin over the past few weeks. Here they are at Knit Night last night, with the finished product. Made entirely out of Madelinetosh Vintage, it has us all wishing for one of our own! See how she did mirror images with the colors? With the border, this one took 13 skeins. Next she’s thinking of doing this in a baby blanket with a lighter yarn and six squares. I’m thinking Cascade Superwash Sport would be perfect for a baby blanket like this. Or the Worsted 220 Superwash. Even though I love this in the Madelinetosh Vintage, moms always like things that are machine wash and dry. Make it easy on them.
Our Camp Loopy Project Two is to make an 800 yd. + project (using at least one color from your country’s flag). I’m still waffling on projects (although now thinking of this mitered baby blanket…). I keep looking at all of my options and garnering ideas from everyone. So my contest question for this month is: What is the biggest project you have made and how many yards (or meters) was it? Mine was the crocheted afghan I made for Camp Loopy last year – 2600 yards. Leave your answer in the comments below and we’ll do a random drawing next week for some $25 Loopy gift certificates! (And maybe I’ll get some more ideas from your comments in the meantime.)
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My biggest finished project was a prayer shawl that took about 580 yards of worsted weight yarn. I do have a half finished afghan stashed away somewhere that I might finish someday. My project two will be the most yardage I have ever used. Hopefully I won’t get bored with it half done. I will be knitting Radiance Shawl by Helen Stewart in Cascade Heritage (unless I change my mind!)
Girasole might win for most yardage (made with cascade 220) as I don’t knit afghans. I have crocheted a few afghans but don’t remember how many yards I have used on those. I have knit quite a few lace shawls but I think they have mostly been in the 700 to 1200 yard range. Then again I routinely knit sweaters and cardigans that are around 1200 yards. Elphaba was one of the last ones I made.
Wow reading these has me exhausted! This project 2 will be my largest (I did crochet some baby blankets, but don’t know how many yards they were). For the camp loopy project 2 I am planning on making the sothia shawl and I’ve got 1050 yards available. Love my swans island-can’t wait to get started!
HA! That’s easy! I’m in the process of making The Great American Aran Afghan. Even though I’ve only got 12 squares done (out of 20), it is already the biggest project I’ve done!
One of my current works in progress is the Saffron Cables Blanket, which should run me just under 2600 yards when it’s done. The most yardage in a project I’ve actually finished though is a three way tie for my Autumn Arbor Wedding Stole, my Autumn Arbor Honeymoon Shawl, and my In Dreams Shawl, all coming in at 1500 yards. Although come to that, my October Frost sweater might have been a little more.
It’s nice to look back on the larger items I’ve knit – thanks for the contest Sheri!
I have crocheted a couple of scrap afghans that would probably clock in around 1000-2000 yards at least. I have no idea though as those were done pre-Ravelry, nor did I keep up with yardage amounts of scraps that I was using. From the projects that I have documented it would have to be a Wicked sweater that I knit using almost 900 yards. I always seem to stick with smaller projetcs. Camp Loopy Project 2 will definitely be a stretch to get done in a month, especially since I decided to pick lace. Whatever was I thinking?!?
Cheryl Oberle’s Irish Diamond Shawl from her Folk Shawls book. 2200 plus yards.
It was one of my first lace knits made for my daughter as a Christmas gift.
I’ve made several fingering-weight pullovers and cardigans. they’ve used around 1,200 to maybe 1,600 yards. the biggest blanket I’ve made was with worsted weight yarn and a lap blanket–it only used 1,100 yards.
thanks for this contest!
I did a blanket for my brother and sister-in-law out of Cascade Rustic (12 skeins, ~2350 yards). I just used a stitch pattern from one of Barbara Walker’s books.
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/bahhumbug/wedding-present
My biggest project was probably the Moderne baby blanket, done in Cascade Sierra, a Wool/Cotton blend. I think it ended up using something along the line of 8 skeins, so about 1500 yds.
I’ve made a couple of sweaters that took around 1300 yards each, but I think of my Anthemion Wrap as the “biggest” project I’ve made. It took 900 yards of laceweight yarn. I’m still working on my Dahlia shawl for my Camp project 1, but I’m expecting it to use more yardage than that.
my biggest project so far was the Amiga sweater (Knitty pattern) that finished just before Camp Loopy started. I used about 1,200 yards of Pagewood Farms Willow Creek yarn.
thanks for having a fun contest!
I’ve knit the Rambling Rows afghan several times (pre-Ravelry) and I believe the yardage was somewhere between 2,500 and 2,800 yards. I think I need to get that pattern out and start thinking about color combinations again.
I made a long drapy fingering weight cardigan (Morning Breeze by Christiane Burkhard) out of more than 1600 yards…and that was a small size!!! I do wear it all the time and love it dearly, but I made a lot of quick and easy hats after that was done 😉
I haven’t made very big projects! My largest completed project is my first cardigan – just under 1000 yards.
I knit my husband a Seed-Patterned Pörtom Sweater in fingering weight yarn. Apparently it took 3200 yds.
Mine isn’t very impressive. I made a cardigan using about 600yds. It was a disaster! But I do have a color affection OTN that will use approx. 1550yds when complete.
I’ve made several large crocheted afghans, but a few years ago I decided I wanted to knit one so I made a large blanket that started out round and became square as it got bigger. It was striped in 7 different colors probably used around 3,200 yds. It’s really nice to have around on a cold night!
I knit each of my children afghans for Christmas last year They each measured 7’x6′ and took over 2200 yards of yarn per afghan.
I’m honestly not sure. I’ve done several crocheted afghans, but I’m horrible about keeping track of yardage used for my projects. I’m thinking the biggest is probably the afghan assembled from my square a day in May blocks from last year. The blanket itself is almost exactly queen sized, and I know I used up a full 1 pound skein and then some of each color over the course of crocheting the blocks. After the joining and border… it might be close to 3000 yds, I guess?
Aside from that, I have a giant doily blanket in progress (but momentarily stalled) that’s probably over 10 skeins of simply soft already… I lost count of how many I’ve bought as I ran out of the ones I had.
I believe the biggest so far has been the Alphabet Blanket by Debbie Bliss. I made it pre Ravelry so I don’t know how many yards it used exactly, but probably at least 1100 yards.
I did a queen-size crocheted afghan for our bed that used almost 18 skeins of Wool-ease, including the fringe, so that would be a little over 3500 yards!
My biggest project was an afghan for my son. I used 3400 yds. His afghan was the 3rd one from the same pattern and let me tell you, I was sick of that pattern by the time I was done! The first 2 weren’t as large as his though.
My largest project was my full size compass bedspread crocheted in size 10 thread. It took 12,240 yards or 6.95 miles of thread to make.
I’ve knit a lot of big projects but out of the ones which I’ve kept track of, the prize for most yarn used goes to the Bridgewater Shawl I just finished out of 1827 yds of Wollmeise Lacegarn.
Last fall I knit an Evenstar shawl from 1,500 yards of (Sanguine Gryphon Mithril) lace weight as part of the Nerd Wars competition on Ravelry. It’s far and away my favorite FO!
A sweater for me out of Cascade 220. About 1200 yards.
Hourglass sweater from “Last minute knitted gifts”
My biggest project was a baby moderne log cabin blanket. 2600 yards of cascade 220 superwash. It didn’t seem like it was that much at the time…
My biggest was Jared Flood’s Umaro Throw. It took about 1200 yards of bulky yarn.
My biggest project was Umaro and I used 9 skeins of Madelinetosh equalling 1800 yarns. It was for camp loopy last year!
I made my niece an afghan (out of Knitters mag I think) that I had to hold 3 yarns together and knit on chunky needles. Her brother decided he should get one too so in 2006 I found a pattern for a mitered square and made 64 squares. I think I used about 2400 yards for it. It was 2 solid colors and 1 multi. Wasn’t too hard to knit but the sweing of them all together and weaving in the ends was a bear.
Mine looks small compared to some of these answers! Just a little over 2000 yards and it was a queen sized crocheted blanket. I worked on it during a move to Alaska 25 years ago. I had forgotten all about it until you asked this. Thanks for the trip down memory lane 🙂
A Vortex, I think. 5 skeins of alpaca. I would do it again withou a second thought.
The largest project I’ve ever made was a double knit sweater, the Sonja Henie. I used 13 skeins of Sirdar Snuggly, which equals 2509 yards. It took me 4 months of working on it almost exclusively.
I made the Great American Aran Afghan several years ago.I think I used 20 skeins of Cascade 220 superwash. I learned alot and love the finished project, but I don’t think I’ll do it again!
About 10 years ago I crocheted an Aran style afghan for my mom for Christmas. I received one as a wedding present and Mom really wanted one like it. I did my best to recreate it. I think it was about 2400 yards.
My largest project so far was a pair of socks that took about 500 yards so my Camp Loopy Project 2 (a small blanket) will be my largest!
Golly, I’m not much of a big project knitter – probably the biggest thing would be my Ishbel shawl, which took probably around 600 yards of DIC Baby. It’s also my very favorite thing I’ve knitted for myself!
In the ancient times of the early 80s, I knitted an afghan from a magazine pattern that was called ‘Falling Leaves.’ The pattern called for autumn colors, but as I was making it as a wedding gift I went for the oh so practical pure white. I started with 10 skeins figuring that would be plenty. Well, by the middle of skein 9, I knew it wouldn’t be. My mom, who was knitting some of the leaves for me, raced to the store and got every skein the shop still had with our dyelot, which was another 16 skeins. Knitting it all on size 5 needles, we ended up with half a skein left. And I must admit the finished project was quite stunning, wish I’d taken a photo. The friend I made it for was totally overcome, as it was the only handmade thing she’d ever owned. I cant even guess at the yardage, but the yarn would’ve stretched from here to the moon and halfway back.
Before I was a knitter, I crocheted afghans. When I was in high school and college, I crocheted huge, 1 piece afghans (all acrylic!!!) that were anywhere from 2500 to 3500 yards. At the time, I found the repetition so peaceful. I still have all of the blankets, folded up in one of my storage closets, and I bust one out and use it from time to time. The largest one will cover a full size bed.
I made my husband a sweater out of worsted cotton with cables and patterns and it took a lot of time and yarn and it is folded in his drawer. I can’t remember the yardage,
My largest project was a sweater that used 1600 yards.
Yggdrasil (http://www.knittingdaily.com/media/p/41042.aspx) at least 3811 yards used. Knit in 6 weeks so that it was done in time for my brother’s wedding; it was my gift to them. My sister-in-law loves to curl up under it when it is chilly outside.
Mine was a baby blanket (http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Idyllblue/color-block-baby-blanket) which used approx 1536 yds. I’m currently making another one, but in adult size. It’s going slower. 🙂
It must have been the sweater I’ve made out of organic wool… Some cables, a turtleneck – there was probably around 1000 yards of lovely O-Wool Classic in there. Unless it was the baby blankets I made out of much finer yarn? Oh, yes, that’s it: those blankets took about 1200 yards of yarn each.
Probably the project with the most yardage was my Pi Shawl with about 2500 yards of fingering weight yarn. Thought I could do it fom stash but ended up having to buy more yarn.
I had to go look on Ravelry projects to see which one had more “mileage”.
I made a bunch of baby afghans (most was 1300 yds)
But the biggest so far is a gansey style pullover at about 2000 yds.
I am planning on making an afghan this fall.
My biggest project was a colorwork blanket that I designed myself using 5 different colors of Wollmeise yarn (1,550 yards of yarn) and it also required steeking! http://www.ravelry.com/projects/evep83/wm-baby-blanket
The biggest project I ever knit was an afghan made of Mandala squares, using the square from this sweater, http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/magical-mandalas-aka-mandala. I think I did 4 squares by 6, tho I’m not sure. It was a wedding present for friends in pre-ravelry, pre-digital camera days, so I have no record of it. I know I used 12 colors of Brown Sheep Nature Spun Worsted, I think 3 skeins of each color, more of the main dark brown color.
Wow, I feel like I’m slacking. The biggest project I’ve done was a colorwork sweater vest. In total I was only 1300 yards, though.