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Compared to the art I usually do (photography), this baby blanket took me a long, long time to make. I started it with the intention to give this as a gift to my husband's brother's wife, who will give birth to a girl later this month/early September. So, I had a fair bit of pressure to make this 'professional', and ended up redoing rows, and rows, and rows, but more on that later. There were several things I had to consider first:
1. I had to find a form and pattern. I browsed YouTube, mostly because I understand things better when I'm watching the creation in process.

2. I had to consider the materials. Sadly, most of my yarn is back in England. I have a lot of yarn, but could only bring a small part of it when I moved to the States. I haven't been back since, otherwise I would have had more choice. I wanted yarn fit for a baby, but the yarn I had on hand didn't work well when I started crocheting, so I had to settle for other yarn - that of brown and blue. It wasn't my first choice, but that was what I ended up with.

It's not every day that I crochet. Even though I created other projects before this one, the newness of it made me redo the first few rows a few times until I was satisfied, but after getting the foundation down, things got easier. Unfortunately, I left this next to an iron that was turned on, and the iron bleached the blue yellow, so there was a diagonal yellow line across the blue that spanned just over 8 rows. I had to redo those rows and, by this point, each row took me an hour to do.

In between all of that, I was redoing rows and counting like crazy. It can be quite surprising how much counting is involved in crochet - one has to count the stitches, the rows and, because this involved two colours, keep track of the pattern.

The directions I had on hand were used as a base, mostly for the form. I didn't follow it precisely regarding the pattern, such as when the colour should alternate. I also added extra rows to the end because I wanted the blanket to be bigger. After taking a month's break, I finally finished it by weaving in the the loose ends and wet-blocking it.

Overall, the blanket has been to Washington, D.C. many times. Though it took me 50+ hours, the mother gave birth early yesterday to a beautiful baby girl (it only took her 45 minutes).

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Description
Compared to the art I usually do (photography), this baby blanket took me a long, long time to make. I started it with the intention to give this as a gift to my husband's brother's wife, who will give birth to a girl later this month/early September. So, I had a fair bit of pressure to make this 'professional', and ended up redoing rows, and rows, and rows, but more on that later. There were several things I had to consider first:
1. I had to find a form and pattern. I browsed YouTube, mostly because I understand things better when I'm watching the creation in process.

2. I had to consider the materials. Sadly, most of my yarn is back in England. I have a lot of yarn, but could only bring a small part of it when I moved to the States. I haven't been back since, otherwise I would have had more choice. I wanted yarn fit for a baby, but the yarn I had on hand didn't work well when I started crocheting, so I had to settle for other yarn - that of brown and blue. It wasn't my first choice, but that was what I ended up with.

It's not every day that I crochet. Even though I created other projects before this one, the newness of it made me redo the first few rows a few times until I was satisfied, but after getting the foundation down, things got easier. Unfortunately, I left this next to an iron that was turned on, and the iron bleached the blue yellow, so there was a diagonal yellow line across the blue that spanned just over 8 rows. I had to redo those rows and, by this point, each row took me an hour to do.

In between all of that, I was redoing rows and counting like crazy. It can be quite surprising how much counting is involved in crochet - one has to count the stitches, the rows and, because this involved two colours, keep track of the pattern.

The directions I had on hand were used as a base, mostly for the form. I didn't follow it precisely regarding the pattern, such as when the colour should alternate. I also added extra rows to the end because I wanted the blanket to be bigger. After taking a month's break, I finally finished it by weaving in the the loose ends and wet-blocking it.

Overall, the blanket has been to Washington, D.C. many times. Though it took me 50+ hours, the mother gave birth early yesterday to a beautiful baby girl (it only took her 45 minutes).

Link to Pattern