Baby Blanket

This has ended up being dubbed the Blanket of Doom. Not because its been difficult, it wasn't. Not because it went wrong. It didn't. Just because it seemed to be hanging about like a bad smell, and never getting any bigger for what felt like forever but was probably only about six months.

Of course, knitting tends to increase in size most effectively if you actually knit on the project, rather than staring at it and hoping it will knit itself. So this would explain the rather longer gestation period than is usual for my projects.

I didn't find it the most exciting knit in the world, and even the yarn failed to thrill me as it didn't knit up quite how I expected it to. I thought it would stripe, and thus whirl around the blanket in a pleasant manner. It didn't do that.

Yarn is Wendy Peter Pan double knit baby yarn. 100% acrylic and thus warm, hard wearing, machine washable, quick to dry, and requires no special faffing about on the part of the inevitably sleep deprived parents. The mum finds most wool uncomfortable and I wasn't sure if such sensitivities could be inherited which was a further reason for choosing an acrylic yarn.

Pattern is Round or Pinwheel Baby Blanket by Genia Planck. The pattern is free on Ravelry and is an excellent pattern. Very easy to knit, perfect TV knitting. I even found I could knit and read my Kindle at the same time for this project. There are absolutely loads of finished projects for this blanket on Ravelry, and I would certainly use the pattern again if I ever made another blanket.