This kids blanket is out of this world. Wrap up your little space explorer in love, and their own personal (and personalised) rocket. 110cm tall and 66cm wide. (43.3 x 26 Inches)

The pattern os a perfect gift for new babies. It’s thick enough to be used as a play mat. It’s great for babies to roll around on pre-crawling, and then doubles as a unique and fun toddler blanket.

This blanket is made up of mostly beginner-friendly stitches, however there are some complicated colour changes near the top. It will be a quick and easy make for intermediate and advanced makers.

Due to the double stranded yarn this blanket has a lovely, almost weighted blanket feel to it. The double strands also lend themselves to this blanket doubling as a play-mat for supervised play with a young baby and then as a snuggle blanket for the subsequent years. Although smaller than the original it is still very generous in size.
My gauge is 12 Sts and 6 rows in a 10 cm square. I tend to make my Sts tall so don’t worry if you don’t match gauge for rows. Throughout the pattern I have given measurements if you need to do more rows
I used a 6mm hook and double strands of cotton yarn so the blanket is heavy and weighty.
For the purpose of this blanket odd rows will be right side and even will be wrong side, but these are just guidelines and there isn’t much difference either way.