The color combination of this blanket reminds me of one of those paintings of a cool summer morning on a New England shoreline. You know what I mean – the kind with a solitary white wooden beach chair sitting in the soft, so-light-it’s-almost-white sand. It brings me back to my childhood, when my family would drive from Michigan to Rhode Island to visit my Uncle in the summer, and we’d spend a week relaxing, exploring, eating ice cream at the shop down the road, and enjoying the company of the part of our family we rarely got to see.

Whatever color combination you choose, this pattern will produce for you a plush blanket with a beautiful stitch pattern. It may, upon first glance, look like your typical shell stitch - but look a little closer, and you’ll see that the unique combination of SC and DC stitches makes this blanket lovely and very unique!