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 project must have been the alphabet afghan I made for my then small girls in the 1980’s. It was a Spinnerin pattern, acrylic of course, done in crochet afghan stitch. It fits the top of a twin bed. I think I only purchased the background color and used scraps for the letters. It has been washed many times, is still around here and is still frequently used. I have also knit several baby blankets for gifts—never thought to keep track of the yardage.
My biggest project was a baby blanket, about 1200 yards. It really didn’t end up that big, but seemed to take forever!
I made an extra large afghan for my son in his college colors of black and green. It took over 3,000 yards of yarn and so, so long to finish, and it just happened to be a perfect match for his favorite recliner.
My sock yarn blankie will be approx 600 squares when complete at 10 yds per square, which makes 6,000 yards. I’ve been working on it for 2 years now.
My largest complete project is a cabled afghan that took 3,000 yards..
I crocheted a blanket for my sister. I used 3 skeins of Caron 1 pounder, so it was about 2,400 yards.
An afghan with approximately 1600 yards of yarn.
Girasole. I think it took about 9 skeins of dream in color classy.
I made Curve of Pursuit for as a prayer afghan when my uncle was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. It was over 3000 yards. Probably tied or slightly ahead was Kate Davies Rams and Yowes blanket in a worsted weight.
I made 2 baby blankets, each 1500 yards, but yarn was held double. I made a sweater-wisteria pullover- that was just under 1000.
i made ron wealsey’s blanket almost entirely of stonehedge fiber worsted weight… i am a total potterhead, so this is my very favorite FO… it did require 2400+ yards of yarn… but totally worth every yard of yarn and every hour of knitting!
Looking back on all my projects I’m not sure I’ve even broken the 1500 yard mark, the closest being was a cabled sweater for my grandma coming in at just over 1400 yards. But one of these days I am going to make a log cabin blanket. Out of handspun. I am. Or so I keep telling myself.
I’m sorry I can’t say how many yards I used because I made this way back when before Ravelry and keeping track of projects. But I crocheted an afghan for my sister that is almost twice as big as a blanket should be about 15 years ago. It is just HUGE! Since it is so big and also crocheted I am sure I used a mega amount of yardage. She still uses it to this day despite its size!
The most yardage I ever used in a project more recently is probably the slightly over 800 yard vest I made for Camp Loopy 2011 Project 3.
Eileen
My biggest project I have done was 3850 yes of sport weight yarn. I made a babbette blanket (crocheted), for my daughter and sil for their new home. Took me a couple of years to make and put together.
I think the largest I’ve made was a Lady Eleanor….1050 yds…..and it’s a bulky yarn so the thing is huge.
It would have to be the project I am finishing up–my “Less is More” shawl.
I’m excluding project 1 (mostly because I’m still plugging away on it), so the largest project I have ever made is a 350 yard crocheted cowl. I’m just starting to take knitting more seriously and turning to projects that take multiple skeins. Everything before was single skein or less.
I guess a baby blanket I made 17 years ago! I haven’t made any big projects, like afghans. Just adult sweaters and shawls. I have no idea how many yards the baby blanket had, since it was so long ago and before Ravelry existed. It was a Debbie Bliss pattern with colorwork and had A, B, C’s and farm animals on it.
My biggest project is a diagonally knit blanket I started last year that is already over 2478 yds! Using three strands of worsted (mostly Plymouth Encore) makes it a fast and heavy project that will be wonderful for the fall and winter once it is done.
I feel so amateur! 1600 for my sothia.
Guess I should get by to my sock yarn blanket…
Baby blankets and prayer shawls–1000yds. Technique has been what I enjoy pushing myself on more than yardage. Can you say steeks?
Don’t remember it’s yardage but I crocheted an oversized afghan for Dave for graduation. I believe it was 8′ long and 6′ wide 🙂
My biggest project involved around 1500 yds for a crocheted blanket. I always seem to abandon big projects, but I love knit blankets!
I once promised a (now former) boyfriend I would knit him a blanket for his sofa. I know it took 18 skeins of yard and we broke up before it was done, but I finally completed it for him and he got it. I liked it so much I made one for my sofa and it’s still looking good 5 1/2 years later. Yardage – about 3500 yards each blanket.
The most recent large project was an entrelac blanket using 20 skeins Noro Silk Garden Lite at 137 yds each which is 2,740 yds of knitting. It is done in beautiful Coastal colors
My biggest has to have been the log cabin blanket I knit. Thirteen skeins (2600 yards) of Ella Rae.
The biggest project I have made is the Paulie Sweater. I needed 3 skeins of sock yarn for the main color and 1 skein of the stripe color.
Largest yardage project? Hmmm… think it would be an unfinished modular square wrap. It is knitted with Cherry Tree Hill sock weight/ fingering, in the Java colorway. It is languishing in the UFO basket, and has at least 2400 yds. of goodness invested. Some day it will be completed (or frogged for a beautiful sweater)… sigh…
I made three afghans one year for Christmas – one for my mom, one for my inlaws and one for my son’s godmother. Each had over 2000 yards of yarn in them, and the patterns were rather intricate. I started in January and they were all done by Christmas. I think I may have made a fourth that year – for my brother and SIL – or I made theirs the next year when I made one for each of the three adult kids, but I don’t remember. I remember the motivation was that I wanted everyone in the family to have something that I had knitted in case something happened to me. I can be a little too practical at times…
Na Craga at 1870 yds. 🙂
I made a 2X sized Isabella vest, which was supposed to be for me, but I misread the pattern notes and thought the measurement I picked was the finished sweater size, but it was really the actual bust measurement. And the pattern was designed to have about 8″ of positive ease. (So my sweater, that I believed was going to be 48″ around, really turned out to be 56″, and it is a long tunic style vest.
So…..I used 10 skeins of Cascade 220 (for a total of 2200 yards) to make a sweater that is too big for anyone in my family. If I have to frog it does it still count as an FO?
Like so many, my longest project was a blanket knit for my MIL. It was at least 2000 yards. Construction was easy, as it was simply a mired square blanket. But all that wool on my lap kept it as a winter only knit!
I knitted an afghan for one of my BFF’s for Christmas/House Warming. It was 2000+ in Collinete yarns-6 different ones (colors/fibers) and mitered/pick up stitches squares. I fell in love with it and had a little seperation anxiety when I gave it away 😉
A log cabin style wrap from 1200 yes of silk garden…
My biggest project was a baby blanket made from 4 colors of Spud and Chloe. There was 4 different squares made 4 times for a total of 16 . It turned out very colorful!
Nothing huge for me, yet! Just a few sweaters that have been over the 1000 yard mark. I don’t know that I would ever finish a 2000+ yard blanket!
My biggest project is still in progress. It’s the Beekeeper’s Quilt and contains 2340 yards at the moment.
My largest finished project was 1300 yards of Vivian cardigan’s cably goodness.
Mine as a floral granny square afghan. It took 2,100 yards to make.
A crocheted aran afghan made out of cotton worsted wt. yarn when I was just beginner to crochet. Didn’t know any better to 1. not work with cotton, esp. worsted wt. since it’s heavy, and 2. that crocheting takes a lot more yardage than you’d think!. Finished afghan looked pretty good, but not soft at all, and too heavy for comfort. Took 6-7 one lb. skeins of yarn obtained at JoAnn’s. Will never knit (now that I do) with worsted cotton, and never Aran crochet again.
The biggest project I have made was the Clapotis, my most recent project. I’m still pretty new at this….
Barbara said,
Last summer my 5year old grandson requested an afghan in his favorite colors, blue, black and gray! gramma added a little red and cream and made a log cabin blanket using Eco-wool, around 2,000 yards. Since he and his family are currently in northern England it keeps him warm on those frequently cold nights.
I made a crocheted afghan years ago with the yarn held triple…that used a ton.
I haven’t delved into knitting blankets yet, so my biggest projects have been long-sleeved sweaters. I’ve got a Na Craga (1540 yds of Black Abbey Worsted) and a Sky Isle Cardigan (about 1300 yds of MadTosh Chunky).
In the mid 70’s I made several very large afghans made up of large 4 color Granny Squares. The yarn was 100% acrylic!
My largest FO to date is a Guernsey blanket I made for my daughter. Adapted and made much larger than the original Jared Flood pattern “Guernsey Wrap”. The blanket used 2100 yds of chunky wt yarn and covered my daughters couch. She loves it!
My largest project was the first one I ever knit, a ripple afghan that I made for my mom out of a giant bag of wool yarn I purchased in Ireland as a souvenir, even though I didn’t really know how to knit.
Well, since I originally learned how to knit soley (pun intended 🙂 ) for the purpose of knitting socks, I haven’t used as much yardage as some of you…but because of Camp Loopy, I tackled my first sweater and have done 2 since then. So the most yards I’ve used have been sweater yardage: between 1100 and 1400.
My biggest project was the Cambridge Shawl I knit for last year’s Camp Loopy (925 yards). I’m working on a Barn Raising Quilt too (on and off for the past 4 years though!), and by the time I’m done with that it’ll have used well over 2000 yards.
so…I have not done much impressive long yardage marathon projects, but my two biggest is a current work in progress using Tahki Cotton Classic and I making the mitered square blanket from the Mason Dixon book. I have about 40 squares done out of my goal of 100. I would say that is about 2400 yards so far…I am thinking that each square is about 50-60 yards a piece?? From there my biggest finished project is an extra large Summerflies with extra extra repeats throughout in which I needed a second skein of malabrigo lace…about 550 yards, maybe!! Good luck deciding your project 2….this one will definitely be a challenge for me (clearly I knit small projects!!)
The largest thing I’ve made since discovering nice yarn is my Print O’ the Wave Stole for Camp Loopy Project 3 last year. I made it out of Trendsetter Cashwoole, and I simply love it. It’s nice and light, but warm enough for a scarf. I think it ended up being about 900 yds.
I’m currently in the middle of an even bigger project, though: an Evenstar shawl out of Wollmeise lace. I’ve been working on it since February and am just about to start the knitted on border. That one’s going to be about 1600 yds.
Oops!! From earlier today… That was a 1 not 2000 yards, otherwise I’d be able to bundle up all my grandchildren in one blanket.Sorry