Who's Having A Baby?

Certainly not me! But you wouldn't know that by all the circular needles laying around with baby pastel colored yarn on them! It is time to learn something new I have decided. This new pattern comes compliments of my Knit Pinkie friend. She loaned me her "Quick Knit Keepsakes" book for a while. As I said in an earlier blog, none of my close friends (or me!) are preggers, so I'm not sure what's up with the need for a 3rd baby blanket, but I'm making it anyway. The way I see it, with my attention span and lack of dedication to anything other than horses, I figure I'll get a few made now and look like a great friend when my pals do decide to start making little spawns of themselves.

The pattern I have chosen is called "Elaine" and is fairly simple. This will be my first attempting YO as well as skip 2 tog, K1, P2SSO (slip 2 together, knit 1, pass 2 slipped stitches over). After making two baby blankets in the now much dreaded baby pink, I wanted something totally different. I just found out a family friend's better half is pregnant and the nice thing to do would be to make them a blanket, but I'd also like to make something without a deadline for once. I have chosen two colors for two different blankets. Caron Simply Soft in Off White, and Simply Soft in Sage. Nobody seems to like the sage color for a baby blanket except for me, but that hasn't stopped me from making it!

I am really starting to rethink the pattern I chose. It is a fairly easy pattern to follow but its the name that's got me worried. Being that I knit to relieve stress, and I've been knitting an awful lot lately if you know what I mean, you would think I would've chosen a blanket NOT named after the current cause of my stress. I have knitted and then torn my stitches out and completely started over on this blanket 4 times! Once in the off white and three times in Sage. I refuse to give up though, I have renamed the blanket pattern "Elsie" (because the book of patterns is all "E" girl names) and am starting over. Hopefully 5th time is a charm. I have never had to redo a pattern this many times! My first blanket made it after the third attempt.

This blanket is by far one of my favorites from this book of patterns. It is the easiest of the two I liked. Hopefully my Sharpie write over work has changed my luck. I put some good time in on it today with all of the bad weather and it's looking good so far. Hopefully my friend won't be mad I defaced her book to change my luck! I'm not typically a fan of any colors in the green family, but I really like this color for this blanket.