Yesterday, as I rushed to finish the replacement baby blanket for the new babe in our playgroup, I crocheted while the kiddos had naptime. I don't usually pull out my handiwork during the daytime, mainly because yarn is sooooooo attractive to them. They like to cut it up and glue it to paper or take skeins of it and wrap it around the central wall in our house. Fun, but not conducive to speed or completion of said late blanket.
So, there I am, crochet hook in hand, and Buddy decides he wants to make a blanket too. I cut off a piece from some leftovers and made him a chain. I then handed him a little hook I had and showed him how to stick the hook through the yarn and pull other yarn through, not because he can crochet but because I though he could at least create some great knots. He sat on the floor at my feet "crocheting" for about 20 minutes, happy as a clam.
But, pretty soon, the blanket was abandoned and they started wrapping yarn around the walls again, playing choo-choo train. At least I got a few more rows done.
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My Standard Baby Blanket
(about the size of a small receiving blanket)
Size M hook
2+ skeins of chunky yarn (I'm using Baby Cloud)
Ch enough to make about 2' or desired width
Sc until desired length
Either sc edging (making 3-4 laps) or shell (Attach yarn with sc at beginning of row. *Skip 2 sts, work 5 dc in next st, sk 2 sts, work 1 sc in next st. Repeat from *).
Usually, I do an all-white blanket before the birth and add an appropriately-colored edge afterwards (because most people like pink or blue but don't find out the sex in advance). For this blanket, since the babe has been born, I am doing a blue strip in the center and then edging it in blue as well.
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