I haven't made anything in a while but a friend recently invited me to her baby shower and of course I have to bring a gift so to the yarn stash I go.
I've realized that a lot of the blanket patterns on the LionBrand site are too small to be practical (c'mon, a 24" square blanket is just not that useful, even to a baby), but they're cute so I just have to modify them to make them bigger. The only problem with this project was that I really needed at least 3 skeins of Caron's Simply Soft yarn in a single color to make the blanket big enough, but I only had 2 skeins of about three different colors and I just really didn't want to go buy more. So I decided to add bands of a contrasting color (the blue) to make my stash work. This was the final result.
I think I'll add one of the little elephant amigurumis to round out the gift. Hope she likes it!
Edit: Here's what the final package looks like. The red tag is care instructions. I missed the shower on Sunday as it turns out because our volleyball tournament went waaaay late so I'll be giving this to the mama-to-be later this week.
2 comments:
Very nice job! I'm sure she'll like it. I guess she's having a boy (blue trim)?
Yep, it's a boy! I actually ended up missing the shower on Sunday because our tourney went way late. Seven team pool meant 12 games to 15 and we made it to playoffs. If it hadn't gotten rained out before playoffs were over we probably would have been there 'til 7pm!
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