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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”

Stacey

January 6, 2015

One of my favorite posts of yours from 2014 was when you officially launched your Make29 project. The excitement and passion you felt came through in your writing and leaped off the computer screen. I have loved seeing that project evolve. You are truly gifted in many ways, one of them is the way you inspire others to just do it.

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Kimberlee Chambers

January 6, 2015

You inspire me- 2015 I want to learn to knit- while under this blanket of course😉 Thanks for sharing your life with us.
~Kimberlee

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Alicia

January 6, 2015

I can’t believe you are giving this away! It is so beautiful!!! I have so many favorite posts from you over the years & am often pulling from your archives to reference again. (& actually, today, I went to your archives to see if I could pick just one & found another great one – the STAMP one – which is perfect timing because I’m currently in the process of turning my MADE IN (insert state) hand lettered designs into stamps and have been researching stamp companies!! Seriously, you are an essential for small creative business!) My FAVORITE this year has really been your podcasts! I can’t pick just one because there are so many that have inspired me, and with a 2 year old, it’s easier for me to listen to something than to read these days (although I do still find a moment or two to pop over to the blog every week!)

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Melissa

January 6, 2015

I have been reading yor blog for about 3 years. I started because of your Project Life posts and have stayed for all the gorgeous pictures, crafty projects and sweet little girl!

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Margaret

January 6, 2015

Just beautiful! I’m such a fan of all of your work. Happy new year!!

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Angie

January 6, 2015

Elise- I’ve been reading your blog since you were planning your wedding. I loved your project 29 last year! Can I ask what brand and type of yarn you used? I want to make my own blanket!

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Lauri

January 6, 2015

Where do I begin on favorite posts?! I’ll start by saying my all time favorite post, and I refer to it often, is the one that brought me to your blog in the first place…the post on what you were eating as a gestational diabetic. I too have gestational diabetes, and I felt such a sense of relief when I found your blog, we are very like minded and eat similar diets, so now my meals look a lot like yours! My favorite 2014 blog: your 18 month Ellerie post, I so related to that post–I have a two and half year old son, and it know that feeling of ‘ok, this is my favorite stage!”. I’m here to say that it keeps getting better, my dear! I’m expecting my 2nd in March, and no joke, all we need to finish his nursery is a blanket, and yours would be a treasured gift in my house. I am a huge fan, keep up the great work, and thank you for your help with GDM 🙂

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Molly M.

January 6, 2015

THESE blankets were my favorite product of your creativity in 2014!! Can’t believe I have a chance to win won!

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Mallory

January 6, 2015

Fun! I discovered your blog in spring 2013 and have been reading it everyday, ever since. Your blog got me into blogging and you’ve even helped me with business questions that I email over from time to time. I love watching your business & life discovery path! 🙂

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Katie

January 6, 2015

That blanket turned out great! I was able to purchase a gray/orange one – and this blanket would be a fun complement to that one. I’ve been reading your blog for almost three years now – started during the winter of my senior year of college. You really helped fuel my procrastination 🙂
One of my favorite posts from 2014 was when you discussed the physical side of your Make29 products. I love the stories behind marketing and branding, so I enjoyed reading about your inspiration and changes. Happy New Year!

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Michaela

January 6, 2015

So beautiful! Love the colors.

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Margaret

January 6, 2015

Oops forgot to add- I have been reading religiously ever since I stumbled upon your blog 2 years ago. I was looking for tips on running a half marathon and you popped up on google. I was hooked right away!

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Emily

January 6, 2015

Love this blanket! Love your blog! Been reading since fall 2012 when I discovered project life and got addicted to your layout posts. My faves from this year were your title page for your 2014 project life album – love those triangles! And your series about your journey to where you are today in your career.
And your E and E posts! Such a cute idea. I’m and E and my little girl -3 – recently decided to add an e to her name to be like mama.

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Nessa

January 6, 2015

I have been reading off and on since December 2007. I know the month because I was on bed rest, pregnant with my first and all I had was the internet to keep me company. I loved how you crafted, made scrapbooks that were modern, not so cheesy. I remember thinking – wow I hope she has a baby someday – her ideas would be genius. And my favorite post was when you bared it all on how being a mother took you legs right from under you. How hard it was but how beautiful too. Loved the honesty there. Oh and your painting canvas posts. Have me the courage to make my own!

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Julie G

January 6, 2015

I think I’ve been reading for about 2 years? Not sure, but somewhere in there. And I love your posts about business. I no longer have a business of my own, but I like thinking about this kind of info – it’s fun to dream about future plans, ambiguous as they may be. 🙂

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Kathryn

January 6, 2015

I love this quilt! I’ve been reading your blog for four years, and it’s been awesome. Your PL posts were my favorite this year (and Seafoam is still my very favorite PL kit!) I love looking back at the album I made using it.

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Courtney

January 6, 2015

I’ve been following you for a couple of years now, ever since we met at queen bee 🙂

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Samantha

January 6, 2015

me me me!!! love all your blankets!

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EmmaJ

January 6, 2015

This is beautiful! I’d love to win. I loved the year in numbers. I wrote a bunch of your topics and some of my own in a planner and am trying to keep track of 2015. I’ve been reading since the weekly pizzas. YUM!

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Samantha

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading since I was in college, you were about to get married! I have followed you ever since!

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Leeanne

January 6, 2015

My favorite post are the months on film. As someone who still uses her film camera it’s nice to see others keep it alive. I’m not even sure how long I’ve been following your blog, but it has to be at least 4+ years now based on going through the archives. I can’t even believe it has been that long. Keep up the awesomeness in 2015!

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Hannah

January 6, 2015

Hi Elise! I have been reading for 3 years now, and even though I’ve become so busy with my senior year of college, yours is one of the few blogs that I still read regularly. You have just been such an inspiration to me as I think about what I want my future to look like. I absolutely love your podcasts and your small business story.

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Rachel

January 6, 2015

I have been reading your blog on and off for 4 years! I have just learned to knit as well 🙂

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Denise Medeiros

January 6, 2015

I’ve been following your blog for at least 3 years. I love your home renovations and decorating posts. Your backyard/patio as being one of my favorites! Love your style! Thanks for the chance to win one of your beautiful creations!

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Courtney

January 6, 2015

You always seem to have the perfect approach to projects (and life really)… the “just right” balance of structure/commitment and whatever happens happens. I have loved reading about your “one little word” each year and finally chose one for myself. Happy 2015!

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Heather

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading since fall 2011, when I found a Goodness Book on etsy. Yours is one of six blogs I subscribe to, and the only one that’s sent me to (three!) other blogs that I now subscribe to (KA, Coffee & Crumbs and Oh Joy). I love the balance you strike between all your favorite things, and the things that feed your soul- it’s a balance I had a hard time finding for myself and now after three years, I’m finally ready to start blogging myself! I think I might just have something to say….
I love your e & E monthly series for Ellerie’s second year! I don’t have a favorite post but that series has inspired me to take note of the things around me and use my favorites to mark seasons. I am also pregnant (due in March!) and have been writing letters to my little lady as inspired by your letters to Ellerie during her first year. I’d love this blanket but what I’m pumped about is making my own! I’ve been wanting to for YEARS but didn’t see how I could do it without it looking terrible. So I’m pretty pumped to try it out. I will start that as soon as I finish baby’s first blanket. 🙂

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Valerie

January 6, 2015

Hi Elise! I’ve been reading for about 3-4 years now. My favorite post from this year was the grilled cantaloupe with season salt! What a bizarre, wonderful and absolutely delicious side! So random but it changed the way I look at serving fruit and the salty/sweet combo. I made it for the first time on the 4th of July, which was one of my favorite days from 2014. Keep on doing what you do, girl! Your posts are my equivalent of reading the morning paper with my coffee and the highlight of my mornings!

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Elizabeth

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading for 3+ years and your capsule wardrobe posts are the BOMB!!

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Jessica

January 6, 2015

Wow! This is your best one yet. The “random”ness adds to its allure for sure! What a beauty! Thanks for sharing it with us lucky readers! My favorite post of yours last year was the bathroom Palm tree photo project. I just love how it came together. I’m thinking of doing that in my guest room when I redo it this year. I want to make the photo cluster the bed’s “headboard”.

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Jane

January 6, 2015

My favorite post was the one about your Fitbit, as I was inspired to buy mine that same day and use it to achieve my goal! I never really thought about goal-setting the way you do until it could really apply to me, and it’s been really helpful. Thank you!

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Renske

January 6, 2015

Oh my, Elise!! What a wonderful colors! It’s such a BEAUTY! And oh my, so many comments haha. But I’ll give it a try anyway! Because one thing I’ve learned from you is to always ‘Just try/start’. I really admire your creativity. You are some sort of creative machine sometimes! BUT what I was just thinking the other day, a lot of blogs I follow come and go, but there are few I keep on following. One of them is yours. What I really like, is that you don’t write three advertorials a week to make (more) money. You don’t write sponsored blogs all the time. You create something and then you sell it. It may not be as easy as just writing an advertorial, but it does make you different. With some bloggers I feel like: Okay, is this a honest article or some sort of commercial? There is one thing I don’t like so much about your blog: it’s the fact that I always think: Oh, I want to do this! Oh and that! Oh, this looks fun too! Lol. But I can’t do all these projects haha. If I have to choose my favorite subjects, I like the gardening / food posts the most. I think that’s because I can use that in my daily life. Well, enough with all this rambling. I just wanted to thank you for your blog, I’ve enjoyed it for over three years now! I was actually gonna mail this to you some time soon, but now I’ll just use it to persuade you haha! That and the fact that it would be so lovely to snuggle under this blanket on the couch after SIX!! months of remodeling our new house! (And we’re not even finished! We don’t even have a couch in our new house yet! But you’ll get the point!) And my all time favorite post is the one where you announced you were pregnant! That literally gave me the chills! (In a good way of course!)
Have a nice day Elise + Paul + sweet Ellerie!

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Debbie House

January 6, 2015

Beautiful blanket!! My favorite posts from 2014 are the project life ones!! It’s always great to be inspired by YOU, and you definately do that! I’ve been following your blog for about a year now..introduced to me by my daughter!!

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Jessika

January 6, 2015

I love the posts where you’re honest. I realize this is all your posts, so I’ll be more precise. I love the posts where most people wouldn’t tell the truth so clearly. That motherhood is difficult. That being a wife is difficult. That the house isn’t always clean. That things need reworking. That the garden didn’t take off like you wanted. That the painting isn’t exactly right. That a photo is blurry. That you made a mistake. I think many people are so guilty of putting only the perfect face forward, rather than realizing that being human means to not be perfect. Your honesty has really been a breath of fresh air, and I appreciate you so much for it.

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Amy

January 6, 2015

I can not even remember that far back….it was before 2009, that I know because I took an ecourse from you then. Yours is the only blog I check on a daily basis and I thank you for such awesome posts, you make me laugh on a regular basis and I am so inspired by all that you do.

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Meredith M.

January 6, 2015

I’m a newbie (i’ve been reading for 6 months). I loved your career story posts! As a recent college grad, I think it is really important to hear how other people made their way. Your story was captivating and definitely easy to relate to (especially installments 1 &2).

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Cristi Wuenschel

January 6, 2015

wow! so pretty! love your blog, especially all of your small business posts. I think I started reading daily when you were pregnant w/ ellerie…

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Erika

January 6, 2015

Oh man! I’ve been reading your blog since… I’m not even sure. Before PL Seafoam, before the new house, before Ellerie was even announced… but not since the wedding or anything.
I finally ordered a Chemex off of your recommendation about a week ago. I love it. This morning, at 5am, I was woken by a loud crash in the kitchen – and I was so sure the cats had knocked the Chemex off the counter.
Thankfully, it was an easily replaceable plate from Target. On lives the Chemex! (Though now on a higher shelf.)

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Bernice

January 6, 2015

I love the colour changes mid-row. It reminds me of something my mom would do back when she used to knit. Use what you have, right?
I’ve been reading your blog since mid-2011. Your letter to Ellerie when she turned one is my favourite. So much honesty and thought. It reminds me that when my baby girl comes this April, everything’s going to be okay. (Because honestly, when they first told me I’m having a girl, I panicked.)

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Rachel

January 6, 2015

What a fun idea! I’ve been reading your blog since just before you moved across the country to move in with Paul. So brave!!

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Jennifer

January 6, 2015

I think I’ve been reading your blog for about 6 years now. There are too many favorite posts to just choose one:)

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Kerrie

January 6, 2015

I’ve only been reading your blog for a year, but I’ve ready every single post in order from the beginning! #obsessed
I love all your goal-setting posts as well as your family posts. A favorite post from 2014 is the recent family shoot with The Goodness. I loved the then and now photos from your wedding and the recent shoot. So amazing! So touching and beautiful.
xoxo

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monica/onceuponahive

January 6, 2015

Beautiful blanket! I’ve been reading your blog for many years now…not even sure how many but a lot. I don’t know if I have just ONE favorite post from 2014 but I love all of your posts on goal setting and business related posts. I’m a small business owner and they are extremely helpful and inspiring!

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Michelle Sardar

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading your blog for two years! This blanket is LOVELY 🙂

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Julie Franklin

January 6, 2015

Hi Elise,
I’ve been reading your blog for just over a year. You inspired me to do Project Life for 2014. I absolutely love your entire site, your style, and just adore your Dear Ellerie letters. I have a 16 month old daughter, Harper, who I think would love this blanket! She always is snuggling a blanket! Looking forward to your 2015 adventures!

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Kerrie

January 6, 2015

hi! I’ve been following for a couple of years, I think? Love your blog, very inspiring! And if I don’t get picked, I’m going to have to knit a similar blanket for myself…Favorite post from 2014? That’s hard…one that stands out to me was seeing the video of your talk. You’re a great speaker!

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Amanda G.

January 6, 2015

Love! I’ve be a blog reader since you were planning your wedding. I started following along after buying a mini book way back when. 🙂

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Karen

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading for… gosh, 5 years?! Insanity. I love your focus and creativity, and can’t WAIT for your calendar/planning book in July. Thanks for sharing so much, Elise!

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Kara Murphy

January 6, 2015

I’ve been reading your blog and following you on Instagram since September or October of 2014. I think?! I stumbleded upon you on IG first and then found your blog – I love both ways of connecting with you! I find your posts about Ellerie especially endearing since my youngest daughter is about a month younger. Favorite post? It’s so hard to name just one! I must say, your recent letter to Ellerie stands out. Beautiful, eloquent, thoughtful.

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Catharina

January 6, 2015

wow,the most beautiful blanket ever 🙂
i am loving your blog since one year, i a love the dear ellerie posts the most 🙂
i would love to have your beautiful blanket here in snowy austria 🙂
best wishes !
catharina

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kaylei

January 6, 2015

I remember I started reading right before you were pregnant… I randomly (and specifically) remember the announcement on the beach with the yellow sweater and I was SO excited for you!! I’ve been reading (and attempting some of those pizzas) ever since then.

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