Two years ago this week, we found out that our new little babeh due that coming November was to be a girl. And so, I started knitting the following blanket. The pattern I used is actually from a small pattern book JD found while checking out at Wal-Mart one day titled 'Knitting for Babies,' but it's the same pattern. The pattern calls for some pinky color they call melon, but I wanted to wait until we found out the baby's sex and use either green or orange for a boy or red for a girl.

Onward:

Hanging around.

Close up of the awful, horrible tiny houndstooth stitch. But, however awful and horrible the stitch was:

Penelope surely loves her blanket.

And there she goes.

This was the second blanket I knit, and it will be the last. Blankets are large, they're boring, and they take forever. I thought it wouldn't be so bad becuase there's two colors, but no, it was still bad! However, despite my apparently deep seeded hatred of knitting blankets, I felt I had to make a blanket for Penelope because Patrick also has a homemade blanket [a quilt, not made by me]. I'm glad I did. Maybe Penelope will keep it and give it to one of her babies.

Stats:

Yarn: Caron Simply Soft in white and red. Oh, how I love Caron Simply Soft. It's so...soft. And it gets softer in the wash. Mmmmm, snuggly.

Needles: This evil blanket broke my favorite pair of plastic size 8 circulars, so I had to use some awful aluminium ones.