Update: 6/2013 - Blake is 8 months old now and this blanket has become his “lovey”. I made 3 very small squares so Blake could have one for the car seat, one for diaper bag and one for the laundry.

6/1/2013 Update: This blanket has become little Blake’s lovey. I offered to make some small squares so he gets used to those and his mom and dad can have one for the car seat, one for the diaper bag, extra for the laundry. I’ve made two small squares and plan to make a couple more.

Using this yarn because it washed up so beautifully (washer/dryer!) in the last afghan I made. People thought it was wool. I’m not sure if Red Heart has made this yarn nicer or if I made the mistake (before) of judging it while the project was on the needles. I’ll be using it for these workhorse items that need to be laundered frequently.

• I like the bumpy side of the cast on for this pattern, the pattern is written in a way that this happens anyway.

• I like the bindoff done knitwise on the wrong side. Makes the cast on and bindoff look similar.

I’m using worsted, even though the pattern is for
DK. I’ll just adjust the number of stitches.
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Cast on 114 stitches. (6 pattern repeats of 18 sts each, plus 3 garter stitches on each side)
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Made a second blanket for Carla and Bobby