Another grandchild is due any day now and I've just finished a second baby blanket. I'd made a granny square blanket for number 1
gallery pic and wanted to do something different for the new baby. Before starting the first blanket, I'd asked in TSF for pattern suggestions and this Spring into Summer pattern was one suggestion. This was the result.
Pic here It's worked diagonally from random dye yarn.
The last one had taken a lot of making up, so I thought this pattern would at least avoid that. Yes, it did, but no, I don't think it was any easier! The worked fabric becomes heavy towards the end and the long rows in the middle are hard going. I like the result though and am happy now it's done. The finished blanket is 28 inches square. The granny square blanket needed lining with cream fleece to give a winter weight pram blanket. This one is thicker and heavier, so no lining was needed.
Comments on the pattern: I needed an extra ball of yarn to complete the blanket, so 4 skeins not 3 as the pattern states. The yarn (Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable, 100% acrylic) is soft and makes up nicely to a cosy weight, but it does split when working with it. There were many sweary-words as the evenings wore on! The yarn is quite fuzzy and the ends of the balls got into a snarled up tangle which took time to sort out. I like the random-dye effect, though. The diagonal working means that the pattern would be easily adapted either to a triangular shawl or to a smaller or larger square.
Sorry about the shots of my shoes, I'm a hopeless photographer!