Group Challenge Completed!

Earlier this year, Shandeh challenged the Oddball groups to knit two special theme blankets: Genius and Superheroes. We took her up on that challenge and had some pretty terrific results.

Genius was knit using red, black, and white yarn. The idea behind this color scheme is that these high-contrast colors are meant to stimulate visual development in babies. Here it is pre-border:

and post-border:

Knitters on this blanket were:
purlingkitten
yarncharmer
ozuri
bpeatknits
krismorales
pinnut
bugsyblacklab (border)

With Supherheroes we were asked to incorporate some of our favorite comic book character colors:

Knitters on this blanket were:
mspwrz ~ Captain America
bailchri ~ Batman
dimpledapple ~ Spiderman
bpeatknits ~ The Hulk
glowyone ~ Superman
krismorales ~ Green Lantern
kae1crafts (border) ~ Wonder Woman


It was a lot of fun to work on these blankets, and it was especially fun to see what each knitter came up with for their section. Thanks for the challenge, Shandeh!

Busy Summer

The group has been very busy this summer. Let's take a look at our current blankets.

From pinnut we have the newly started Veggie Tales:

and our first pictures of Alma Mater:

and of our challenge blanket, Genius:

Speaking of challenge blankets, here's Superheroes ready for its border:

A Challenge

Last month, Shandeh (the lovely lady responsible for the original oddball blanket project) challenged all the Oddball Blanket groups to knit two blankets: GENIUS (black, white, and red) and SUPERHERO (comic book colors). Being the awesome group that we are, of course we accepted!

Behold the fabulousness (fabulosity?) that is Superheroes:

Captain America (is that yarn perfect or what??) was knit by mspwrz and bailchri sent out the Bat-Signal.

Definitely looking forward to seeing the progress of our two group challenge blankets!!