Our Russian Adventure

While we wait for the Russian court to receive paperwork from N's bio family and we wait for a final court date, I have been knitting on the Russian Adventure blanket. The sheer craziness of the pattern is an appropriate representation of the journey we have taken thus far, I think, with all its twists and turns.

Here are all the shells, laid out on their new home, the guest bed:

I apologize for the fuzzy photo..it was night and using a flash gave me really bad colors.

Here is one block joined together. Photo also taken at night in bad lighting.

If you are a knitter, take a deep breath. This is the back of one block. I calculated 157 ends to weave end. 14 per shell times 9 shells plus 31 ends for the sashing that connects them. I plan to do four blocks.

And here is the first block all blocked out. It was wavy and puckered until I wet it and shaped it and let it dry. Now it is flat and fabulous One down, three to go...and then I can do the sashing between the blocks and the edging.