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A Pretty Just For Me!

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Hey, there it's January! I have officially recovered from Christmas in the crafty sense. For Christmas 2021 many people in my family received knitted slippers from me/us! I knitted 15 pairs of slippers and not all of the same pattern. Fun, but I am a bit done with slippers for awhile! I transitioned slowly by working on a knitting project I had been occasionally working on this past year. I finished this afghan just for us this week!! Hehe, little man was enjoying it! I have a stash of yarn and these were all in it! I was going for a bit of a gradient/ombre effect. Turned out good for using what I had on hand! The stitch was fairly simple. The angled stitches were just supposed to go one way but I wanted a bit more interest. So, I tried doing the stitch in a purl row and it worked just fine. Here is the pattern! I think I should have made it a little wider. I didn't know how far my yarns would go and didn't want a super short blanket. Turns out I would have been fine, I sti