Blanket Progress

i've been working off and on on the brown and green blanket for my friend. i was working on the brown panel and eye balling the length compared to the green panel. it kept on coming up short. finally, i was just tired of doing the same stitch over and over for days and i decided to start the seaming while the brown panel was still on the loom. turns out, the brown panel was waaaaaaaay longer than the green, like over 40 rows longer!! so i sat for an hour or so and tinked the stitches, but i was getting nowhere. so i decided to just grab a section a couple of inches down and force those stitches back on the loom. i knew i wasn't going to get the right loop back on, but i figured it was worth a try. it was incredibly hard! for starters, the panel is flat knit stitched. so trying to stretch that panel back out to fit on the loops was a B&*$H!!!! pardon my french. and then, as i started to unravel the stitches, i realized that i put the other stitches back on totally lopsided! so i ended up having to unravel a few, and then tink 20, next row unravel a few, tink 19. it took FOREVER!!!! in the end there's a weird looking row and you can clearly see a mistake, but i really don't care anymore! i did it! i actually ended up unraveling too much and i had to knit another 13 rows or so.

the seaming was a bit problematic, but not too bad. first i tried the i-cord seam from the GettinItPegged site, but that was totally not working! it looked nothing like Bethany's work. then i tried to crochet them together. i know almost nothing about crocheting other than how to do a chain, but i figured it would be like doing a chain through two stitches. that was a no go. so i just decided to mattress seam them together. but i think i missed the first stitch cause i didn't do a slipped stitch edge, but its okay. the seam looks very neat, so i'm happy with it.

here are some pics of the blanket so far. here's the width. the sides curl cause its all knit stitched. i'm gonna make the outside panels have a garter stitch boarder.




here's the length



and here's a pic of the seaming


like i said, i'm doing the outer panels in a garter stitch. i'm also doing them on the green loom instead of the blue one. the stitches are a little wider, but thats okay.