Cast on 135 st. With 3.75 mm needle and do 12 rows seed stitch with gray using smaller needle.

• switch to 4 mm needles and increase to 143 stitches. 30 inches wide.
• keep a border in gray of 8 seed stitches while I knit the inside as follows:
• knit 2 rows white, then do chart sideways.
• from the right, 5 st, turtle chart from hind flippers to nose, 4 st, then chart, 4 st then chart until 5 charts, then 6 plain st at the end.
• 18 rows of chart, then 2 rows white.

Start blanket stripes:
4 rows gray, 10 rows white

Turtle: The cousin has one with his blanket, so making another stuffy for this baby.
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sea-turtle-stack
- make not as high a shell - take out some rows at the outside.

Baby due in October - gender a secret.

Notes for turtle blankets
Sea turtle chart - 35 rows x 40 st wide.
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sea-turtle-chart...

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/turtle-paradise-... mosaic knit.

https://www.ravelry.com/projects/autumnnights/i-heart-sea... - turtle chart in worsted is 20 rows high x 18 st wide.

another chart - 30 x 35
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tribal-sea-turtl...

https://www.ravelry.com/projects/EHyde/tropical-turtles 19 st wide turtle only

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/turtle-baby-vest - use the turtle on a reverse stockinette border?