Quite Possibly My Favorite Baby Blanket Yet

I finished the pinwheel blanket for my good friend's little baby boy. I really like the way it turned out. I love the colors, the stripes, and how light weight it turned out. I purposely used a thinner yarn with slightly larger needles to get a nice light weight blanket. The round shape was fun and the pattern was simple enough to make this a very relaxing knitting project.



Pattern: Pinwheel Blanket by Genia Planck (from Knitalong)
Yarn: Sirdar Click (double knitting with wool) (70% Acrylic/30%Wool)(50g/164yd)
1 skein brown, 1.1 skein blue, 1.2 skein white (The colors are actually a little lighter than they appear in the photographs.)
Needles: Size 8 (doublepoint, 24" circular)
Finished size: 30 inch diameter


Modifications: I totally ignored gauge and just did the yarn and needle size that I liked. I ended up adding a few extra rounds just to fit my stripe pattern. I had just enough brown yarn, but had to buy a second skein of both the blue and the white. I had to use the new skein for the last 2 rounds of blue and about 4 rounds of white.


Pepper jumped up on the bed during my photo shoot and I immediately thought of Jadielady and her cats who are always jumping into her finished project photo shoots.


Notice the paws in the top one and, of course, all of her sweet puppy self in the bottom one.

Oh Yeah, and I Knit Too

I finished putting the buttons on Oscar's sweater. I did end up redoing the button band to make tighter button holes. More details on the sweater here. I followed the pattern for a size 2, but it seems a little on the short side. Oscar's a little on the short side so hopefully that will be okay.


I'm getting closer to finishing my pinwheel blanket, but I ran out of blue yarn so it's on hold momentarily. I'm doing it on circular needles and it looks like a giant beret.


So I had to be silly and try it on for B. He thought it was very Rastafarian.


While I'm waiting for a chance to run back to the knit shop for the blanket yarn, I started on my second Ike-a-saurus for Ike's older brother.


That's all the news for now. Happy Knitting, everyone!