Monday, September 19, 2011

The Wonderfully Obnoxious Green Baby Blanket

I've read much recently about how babies can't actually see pastel colors.  If I remember correctly they all blend into grey until the eyes have developed a bit.  Bold primary colors are visible to the wee little ones though.  So I decided to make my baby to be a very bright green blanket.  Some people think it's obnoxious, but I love it.
It's crocheted using Caron Simply Soft yarn in the limelight colorway.  I used the Russian join to put together the skeins.  The pattern is Heirloom Baby Blanket, a free pattern I found on Ravelry.  It's part of the exploded doilie type of patterns.  As much as I love how this blanket came out, I wouldn't recommend this pattern to anybody who isn't very familiar with crochet and can figure out how things are supposed to go loosely based on the instructions.  The pattern is just badly and inconsistently written.  I worked on this sucker for almost two months.  Hopefully I use it more than once after the munchin is here!
Here's a shot of the pretty edging, just to share :)