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the 30th knit blanket

January 6, 2015

Last year, while I was knitting my 29 blankets, I knitted one extra (I think it was number 19). I didn't have enough of two yarns colors at the house and I was wanting to knit so I just started adding scrap yarn together. Of course, then I ran out of scrap yarn and had to go buy more to actually finish this blanket.

Originally, I thought I'd sell it as one of the 29 but then realized that would be so random. 28 striped blankets and then this one! This random one! #odd.

So I kept it aside and powered through the remaining blankets. And then sold them in November.

This one is still special to me though. I love the look. I love the warm color palette. I love the crazy changing yarns.

Like all the blankets, this was knit with simple back-and-forth garter stitch on size 15 needles. (I did 60 stitches per row if you want to make your own.)

Today, I'd love to give this blanket away to a reader. Just leave a comment… tell me your favorite post from 2014 and/or how long you've been reading my blog and I'll pick a random winner from the comments by the end of the week. Open to anyone, in the US or International.

GIVEAWAY CLOSED : According to random.org, the winner is Michelle who posted at 6:12AM on 1/6

Thanks for reading!

Posted in get crafty, yarn projects

1,104 responses to “the 30th knit blanket”

Jacki Oler

January 6, 2015

I found you during Paul’s first deployment. I had just moved to a new city, and I identified with the need to craft it up. I’ve been a loyal reader ever since, and am in LOVE with this blanket 🙂

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barrentree

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading your blog for about five or six years now! I also loved all of your E + e posts last year. 🙂

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Sarah H.

January 6, 2015

This blanket is beautiful and represents everything that I love about homemade. Your site has been so inspiring to me!

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Nicole

January 6, 2015

Beautiful blanket – the colors are warm & I’m sure it is too! I only regularly follow a few blogs & yours is one of them. I’ve been reading it for at least a year, maybe closer to two…I don’t really know. I believe I originally came across you because of a scrapbooking post, but I’ve come to enjoy your blog for much more. I love your sincere honesty as a mother, wife and business women. And since my kids are older (13 & 9), I absolutely adore Ellerie and all her toddler tales. As a matter of fact, my favorite posts from 2014 are your monthly E & e likes…I even passed the idea on to my sister who has a 3-year-old and a 6-month-old. Keep up the great work in 2015! I have my daily goal tracker ready and can’t wait to see your planner later this year.

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Kate

January 6, 2015

Oh, This is a beauty! I have been reading your blog since the ampersand nail project. I have one in my home that I did in the basement during nap time hoping my daughter wouldn’t wake up with the noise from
the hammering. My favorite post of the year was the time zone post. I loved your Ellerie letters and your honest expression of the rawness that comes and then turns to pure joy. My favorite all time posts were the decorating posts at your home near the beach. Love what you are doing, Elise! Thank you.

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Lizzie

January 6, 2015

I have a baby born a month after yours 🙂 So I enjoy your posts about what you’re doing and she’s doing each month. I also like your Project Life posts and think that may be how I found your blog.

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Kristen

January 6, 2015

Beautiful blanket! I really love the Dear Ellerie letters. Your post are inspiring antithesis I have been reading for 1-2 years now

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LJ

January 6, 2015

I love it. What a beautiful random blanket. It’s going to be -40 windchill here tomorrow so we’re piling on the blankets!

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northcarmen

January 6, 2015

It looks lovely — so warm and cozy. 🙂 I’ve been reading your blog for about two years, I believe. 🙂
Carmen.

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Jaimie

January 6, 2015

Ooo pretty! Ive probably been following at least 3 years if not more. 🙂

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Caitlin

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading your blog for two years and I love seeing what you do! From one crafty Navy life to another, rock on!

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Alyankrom@aol.com

January 6, 2015

I just found your blog and the first one I read was your December Make 29 post…. So I’ll say that one is my favorite as it drew me in to keep reading! Love your work, love your writing, and really love that blanket, haha!

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Andy_land

January 6, 2015

I meant to add that my favourite posts were your My Small Business Story series. So inspiring! (from someone who went the “business suit/office tower” route and often daydreams about a change in course).

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Jessica Mundt

January 6, 2015

I have been reading your blog for five or six years now! Obsessed!
I can’t pick one favorite post but my favorite “genre” would be anything you scrapbook (project life, mini books,etx) and photo books! Looooooove your fresh ideas on photography angles and ideas and how to use them in your scrapbooking. I did really enjoy your story of how you got to where you are today. Excellent writing and kept me so interested and waiting for the next entry!!

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Kristin Delaney

January 6, 2015

Love that blanket! Can’t pick a favorite, but have been following you since before Ellerie. I had GD also, so I found some of those posts to be so helpful in the midst of it all (was prego before you had Ellerie and then not too long after – a 2 yo and a 7 week old)

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stephanie

January 6, 2015

i’ve been wondering what kind of yarn you’ve used for these blankets. i’m an avid knitter and would love to know!
also, i’ve been reading your blog since well before you moved to maryland — but i can’t remember when that was? time flies…

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Karin

January 6, 2015

Wow. Hm. I found you through scrapbooking a long time ago (maybe through Scrap In Style TV?), before you moved and started working at Paper Source and I think it was before you started selling your mixed paper books. 🙂

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Janet Bailey

January 6, 2015

Hey Elise, I’ve been reading since I found your blog through a Project Life link, I think it was back in 2012. I found your tenacity to stay with the Project Life very inspiring. And even though I couldn’t do it every week like you did, it gave me a more cohesive way to collect my photos and memories from vacations and put them all together in one place. Your DIYs have inspired me and this Make29 project was pretty cool. I also found the capsule wardrobe (Unfancy) through another blog, so it’s funny that we both came to it at the same time. I have NOT been able to downsize quite as much as you, but it sure has helped me to rethink what I buy and not buy so much or just cause it’s on sale. I like reading your end of the week post, the Weekend Links, I go through every link if it piques my interest and investigate it. You have steered me onto some interesting things. I also like your book reports and even though we don’t often read all the same kind of books, I like to hear about new ones I haven’t heard of and your opinion on the ones I’ve read. I can’t imagine myself putting it all out there for everyone to read, but those of us that do, really appreciate it!

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Laura

January 6, 2015

Yay for a hand knit blanket! I’ve been reading your blog for about 8 months, and my favorite posts have been the reveals/behind the scenes of make29. Excited to see(or rather read about) your business progress in 2015!

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Courtney

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading your blog since 2009. It’s been such a great source of inspiration for me, especially your post about college. I was right in the middle of a difficult time in college where I was seriously doubting my future plans. The video you posted that day turned everything around for me and gave me the push to keep moving forward. Thanks so much for that!

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Jennifer

January 6, 2015

You rock! I can’t remeber how I found your blog but I’ve been around since the deck of cards days!!!
Favorite post?! Yikes! I’m still impressed that you did the talk this past year.

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Natalie Dodd

January 6, 2015

ELISE!
Dude. Rad idea. You have rad ideas.
My fave posts of the year (besides your small business story… Awesome insight for the budding (hopeful/dreaming!) entrepreneur.) were your E&E posts! That was (yet another) rad idea. Taking notes…

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Megan

January 6, 2015

I love this blanket! I have been reading your blog for 3-4 years since you first teamed up with A Beautiful Mess to create the blog e-course. I loved your Dear Ellerie letters and now love your E and e series.

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sarah atwill

January 6, 2015

I have been reading your blog since right before your and Paul’s marriage. I have loved all of your journal and book making posts. They are so creative. My favorite post of 2014 has to be…drum roll…i have always loved your project life posts it gets me started and motivated for my PL projects, but i think specifically for 2014 i loved the E & e posts. i think they’re totally simple and perfect and something you’re both going to look back on and appreciate. It’s totally awesome and unique but also something any reader/mama could do with their little one(s) or a person could do with their S.O. anyways all the best in 2015, you’re one of my favorite ladies on the web and always a happy upbeat blog to read. can’t wait to see what you make in the new year.
xo-sarah atwill

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Kiki

January 6, 2015

I don’t know how long I’ve been reading your blog, but I’ve been falling more and more in love with your blog in the past few months when I started listening to your podcast! I think my favorite post(s) were your film series with Ellerie. But I also love your E+E and your most recent posts on words for the year. Well, and I also love your posts on Make29. So basically everything!

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Nicole

January 6, 2015

Would love to win one of your blankets. I have been reading your blog now for about a year and find it very inspiring. A favourite post would have to be your water marbling post!

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Jill

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading your blog for about 3 years now. What a gorgeous blanket! I really love reading your thought process and behind the scenes post for your Make29 projects.

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Sarah Homan

January 6, 2015

I have been reading for several years. Some of my most enjoyable posts are ones about goal setting and small business.

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Ann Elise

January 6, 2015

I have been following your blog for about three years now! It has followed me (I have followed it??) through most of college. It’s almost like having a big sister who has things mostly figured out (so can give good advice) but it is still cool and fun enough that I would want to visit her often (and steal her wardrobe). You have shaped who I aspire to be, in many ways. This blanket would be perfect for late nights spent studying, a subtle reminder of what I have to look forward to.

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Kthro

January 6, 2015

The first very post of yours I can remember reading was when you did your big art piece with Rise Against lyrics. It’s one of my favorite songs and thusly, your blog became a favorite too. But this past year, I’ve really loved your weekend links posts. It’s turned me on to so many new blog/bloggers and ideas – I’m going to attempt a capsule wardrobe this spring, for sure! I even have a stash of scraps of yarn I want to turn into a blanket one day too!

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Krystal

January 6, 2015

An Elise give-a-way, YES. My favorite posts/posts from you in 2014 were your home tours/updates. They have always been inspiring and motivating to me. I have been reading your blog for years. No matter how into ‘blog reading’ I am -yours has always made the cut. I used to set my alarm for 5:00 am to see the new post of the day. Thanks for the give-a-way and continued inspiration!! Cheers.

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Ashley Dreger

January 6, 2015

I have been reading your blog for over three years but when I started I went back to the beginning of your archives and read from the start. Now I read it every morning and am constantly inspired! I really appreciate your voice and the natural way you share with us. Thanks so much for sharing your creative, fun, ampersand-filled life with us! You’re awesome!

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Patrina

January 6, 2015

Hello! My favorite was reading about tbe progress of your yard! You are always so inspiring and come up with the most clever ideas and I love how you figure out how to accomplish them on your own. Your blog is very inviting and you deserve all the success in the world!

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Mary D

January 6, 2015

Hi elise! I’ve been reading for about 3 years and love your ‘what’s going on around here’ posts! Thanks for the generous giveaway.

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Jenn V

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading since 2011 or so. I read all your posts so I can’t really remember anything specific although I think I remember you posting about ellerie in daycare? It was very encouraging. I have a 15 month old so I always appreciate your posts about your little girl. They are both bald. 😉

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Breon Randon

January 6, 2015

I don’t have one special post but adore the around here photos posts with what you and ellerie are up to. They are great honest funny memory keeping

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Madi

January 6, 2015

I’ve just recently found your blog (this past summer/fall semester) and I absolutely love it! You’ve been a major inspiration in my deciding to pursue Graphic Design as my major in college and set goals for what I really, REALLY want to do in the future, not just what I ‘should’ do. The posts I find most inspiring of yours are the ones where you share your projects and creations, as well as your small business story series. That’s what really inspired me to start making my own way NOW and not waiting for things to fall into place.

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Lucy

January 6, 2015

I’ve only been reading your blog for two years but have trawled your archives! (See it was worth all that work organising your archives!) My fave post is your post about not organising your digital photos!! Weird I know but the weight that took off my shoulders was h-uge! I like to set goals (hence loving your blog) and am organised in parts of my life but my digital photos are organised by event or week of a certain year and that’s it! I back them up but never get around to deleting the ‘bad’ ones or getting rid of some. My goal is to take them, print them and memory keep using them. To hear someone as organised as you not have your photos super-organised made me feel sooo much better! I enjoy reading from Australia and wish you the very best in 2015!

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Petra Castelijn

January 6, 2015

Love love LOVE your blog!!! Been a fan for over three years. My favourite posts are your letters to little e and your photos on instagram. X Petra C.

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BettyLou

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading your blog for at least two years. I’m away from my home helping my parents figure out how to cope with worsening health. I would give this blanket to my mother for her use in a care facility and probably tell her that I knitted it for her. ( I can’t knit anymore because of my arthritis but she’ll probably never realize that.

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ErinN

January 6, 2015

Oh, how fun! This blanket is just perfect in its randomness! It holds much non-uniformity character! I stumbled upon your podcasts back in September when I needed something good to listen to while I cleaned (really cleaned) out my youngests room (5). I was so delighted to find you and quickly caught up on all of your podcasts. A favorite artist of mine is Emily Jeffords, so I’ll claim that as my favorite “post.” Keep up the great work, and as always, thanks for sharing so much of your wonderful self!

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Sarah Starr

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading since about 2 years before you were married! Wow does time fly! 🙂 Gorgeous blanket & love that you’re sharing it with your readers! Thanks for being such an amazing blogger!

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Annie Perri Cole

January 6, 2015

I’m just loving the E&e project. It’s by far my favorite!

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Casie

January 6, 2015

Holy smokes! Almost 900 comments already! You rock Elise!
My favorite series is the E & e series! It is a photo representation of “currently” prompt & a reflection of the season of the year and life season.
My favorite post of 2014 was when you announced your get to work book. I love planners and your goal setting and work ethic inspires me!
I read your blog daily and have been since mid 2013. Thanks for the giveaway!

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Jodie Allen

January 6, 2015

I’d love to win but more importantly would love to tell you how much I’ve enjoyed your blog! I started following you back in 07 or 08 or maybe before – you were in college and I was a young mom living vicariously through you! I am 35 so a bit older and my kids are 6, 8 & 9 now. I hope this doesn’t come across as strange but I am so proud of the woman you’ve become. From a fun spirited studious crafty girl to an amazing wife mother and business owner. It’s been a joy to follow along app these years!

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rachelle.

January 6, 2015

i love the post when you made the huge script art with the lyrics. i love script art and have since made several of my own…thanks to you for being my inspiration. i have been reading your blog since about 2009 and have actually been inspired by many of your projects. can’t wait to be inspired even more. 🙂

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yvette

January 6, 2015

Fun! I’ll play along. I have been reading your blog since you lived in D.C. and taught classes at Paper Source. I don’t have one particular favorite post for 2014. Many were interesting. Thanks for have such a variety of subjects on your blog. 🙂

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lucy

January 6, 2015

I’m so pleased this is available to international readers! I’ve been an avid follower here in the UK for 2-3 years now, originally hooked by Project Life stuff but followed you ever since. My favourite posts from 2014 were the e&e series, as well as your home decor posts- I just love your style! I’ve also directed a new mummy friend to your blog for real life, HONEST parenting posts that I know she’s appreciated.
I’d be so excited to have something from your make 29 series, I’ve watched them all come out with such envy, but working in education there isn’t a lot of spare money floating around!
Wishing you and your family a wonderful 2015! 🙂

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Erin Toews

January 6, 2015

I have been reading for almost 4 years, which is crazy for me to say. hard to believe! I love your new E&e posts this year.

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yvette

January 6, 2015

p.s. I love that you are a military family. Thank you for your service!

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