Between Cub Scouts and life in general, the blog updates have slowed down. To all 3 of you following my adventures… sorry about that! I’m still trying to catch up on posts about all the projects I’ve worked on. This one was my first foray into making a baby blanket… and it went really well, I think!
I found out in May that a friend was having a baby in July… and I wanted to make something special for their family. So off I went in search of simple baby blankets! Luckily, my friend half_moon_doublecrochet pointed me to this one…
by Donna Mason-Svara
I snagged some Lion Brand Big Scoop at Michael’s and got started!
The pattern was remarkably easy to work up while not paying a whole lot of attention to what I was doing. I got to practice decreases and increases, as well as yarn changes… and you know how sometimes when you’ve done 100 of the same stitch in a row you get kinda burned out? Well, the slight change at each point and valley in the pattern broke up the work just enough that it wasn’t boring or tedious.
It did work up just a smidge weirdly, though, thanks to the quick color changes in Big Scoop yarn. I used the Blueberry (white-blue variegated) as the primary yarn, with periodic rows of Cookies & Cream (white-gray variegated) to break it up… and there are places where the whites from each yarn ended up aligned, so it doesn’t actually break it up fully. If I do this pattern again, I’ll likely use a solid-colored yarn in place of the Cookies & Cream.
I used a small stretch of Lion Brand Jeans (Vintage color) yarn to do a solid final border, which I think helped finish it out nicely… but would have been way too dark for the interior separating rows.
Anyway, I was pretty dang happy with the final product, for my first baby blanket ever… and I’ve gotten to see the little guy tucked in with this one a couple times, and it warms my heart!
(And if you like my stuff… you’ll love half_moon_doublecrochet’s stuff! Check her out below!)