Monster Blanket of Huge

I just finished my blanket. I have been working on it since last December (07) when I first started it. At that point I had been knitting a few months and had only made little scarf things. This blanket was my first large project and also the first time I did a patterned stitch.

This thing's humongous. It's about 56 by 61 inches, but that's very approximate because the stuff I made it of stretches a lot so it can get much bigger if you tug it. It's really soft and really thick and going to be very warm and very welcome come next winter pre-heat.

I did this using a feather and fan stitch (which is the detail in the lower corner). There are a few errors here and there that I notice, but since it was the first thing I made that wasn't a scarf and was using a pattern, I'm pretty darn happy with it.

Yay blankie! I shall name it Jack, after Jake, because the yarn is called Lumberjack Red.