The other weekend I attended a baby shower for my cousin’s wife (my cousin-in-law?) in celebration of their impending parenthood. They were registered at some big baby store, but, being how I am, I knitted a blanket. An heirloom gift, if you will. They decided to not inquire into the baby’s sex, so I chose fairly gender-neutral earth tone colors.
Late last year I knit a blanket for friends and this blanket was to be similar. That was my goal. The middle starting point didn’t appear to be the same, but I kept knitting on.
First blanket:
This blanket:
Anybody else notice that pinwheel-esque swirl?
Yeah. I obviously was yarn-overing at the wrong time, even though I was using stitch markers.
Live, knit, and learn, I suppose. It may have been more squared if I had had time to block it; I finished it the morning of the shower. Then again, there may have been no hope of giving it straight edges and pointy corners even with blocking. I received a lot of compliments on it, though, so right on.
YAY! Another baby blanket. We should find out how well the first one is holding up against the liquids of baby. Are they washing machine safe or, like the love you knitted it with, should they be washed by hand?
Ha! I make sure to use machine-washable yarns for baby items. I’ve heard rumors that babies can be a bit messy.
I still have my first baby blanket, tucked away somewhere. Hopefully my blankets to them will mean just as much.