It was a bit of a late night marathon to get this one over the line……………………2.30am bed time this morning…..on the day of my cousin’s baby shower! There were a few episodes of breaking bad and ladies of london to keep me entertained but I made it! Well that’s the short story – the long story is that I’ve been home for the past 5 days while my van was being fixed. And in between a bit of cabin fever since I had the 3 little ones all week and no way to get out of the house – so there was time to crochet.
It’s finished and I love it. First time using this pattern and am going to start a girly version tonight since I love the pattern so much. It’s really easy and if you can do a granny square and double crochet into a stitch then you can do this one.
The colours I used were parchment, daffodil, teal and glacier. We don’t know whether the baby is a boy or girl so I picked neutral colours and I’m not usually a fan of yellow but it just was the perfect little pop of colour in this blanket. And I don’t really do neutral colours but I really love how this turned out.
Now the pattern has 5 rounds of colour and 1 of white but I looked through people’s projects and saw that many had changed this and I preferred that look so decided to have less yellow and more white and it looked great. To finish I just went around with single crochet in 2 different colours. If I had more time and could keep my eyes open I might have done all of the colours as a final edge but love how it turned out. Oh and I would have blocked it but it was a chilly day and I knew it wouldn’t be done in time. That and I had to sew 2 presents for a birthday party my big girl was going to at the same time as the shower. Anyway, the mum-to-be loved it and so do I.
Ravelry details are here, pattern can be found here (it’s a free download) and bendigo cotton here.
And would you look at this little guy! Such a cutie. He had a great time.
Absolutely beautiful. Such a lovely gift. You must of been tired the next day! I’m checking out Ladies of London now. Breaking bad was great, I watched the series with my hubby.
thank you! so tired the next day:) I thought I’d see what the fuss was about with breaking bad and it was good. 3 episodes down:)
I love the baby blanket. Reminds me of a crochet cushion cover my Granny taught me to make. A very special gift for your cousin’s baby
thank you, turned out so beautifully and just glad I finished in time:)
Corrie it’s beautiful, great you finished it in time …….. !!!!!!
Thank you for sharing the pattern with us.
But, more importantly, Corrie, Lawson is just so adorable and looks so well cared for.
Its a really special photo, thanks for sharing!
oh thank you! he’s a real cutie, so hard to find the time to take nice photos of them but I’m always glad when I do! thank you for your commentxx
Corrie:)