Red Heart Strata yarn

The overalls and little socks from the Opal Brazil yarn were a huge hit, everyone wants a pair of socks now, even complete strangers :) Those colors are just so eye catching. Anyway, one of the gals from the Machine Knitting group mentioned that Red Heart had a new yarn out called Strata, she shared a scarf she had made from it and it turned out wonderful. I got curious about how the self stripes would work on a wider scale and I've been testing out my LK140 and hadn't tried the heavier yarn yet so I thought I'd try a baby blanket with it. This color way, Crayon, is similar to the socks I made, so I hoped it would go with the socks, sort of like a set. I think this yarn would make a great hat, especially one of those with the corners and tassles hanging from them like pony tails, but I'll use the HK100 or the LK100. I think the yarn is too bulky for the mid-gauge, at least for my taste in fabric anyway.

E.J. says it's got too much green and gold in it which makes it a Green Bay Packer blanket and that's not allowed in this Lions Den, sheesh, what a one track mind! My cat won't leave it alone, I went ahead and just took the pictures because she was going to snag it with her claws if I kept kicking her off, so that is Xena, my little warrior princess :) She really likes the blanket and thinks it's just for her, my vote is still out, I think I'd like it better with smaller panels so you get a real simulated fair isle stripe, maybe each panel edged with red and then assembled sort of like those mile a minute afghans, but I'm going to go ahead and finish it up as is and put a red pie crust edge around it.