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My First Baby Blanket


Look what I found today! This is the very first crochet blanket that I made. The rainbow baby blanket for my daughter.
I made this blanket back in 2014. Back then, I liked to make small quick crochet projects, like scarves and granny squares. I made many many scarves in different patterns and colors. I was learning new patterns in crochet. So, I had a huge bag full of small balls of yarn in various colors. This bag lay hidden in the bottom shelf of my yarn cupboard. I had started crocheting again in 2012, so this was scrap yarn collected over the period of two years.

This bag had turned into an eye sore, I didn't know what to do with it. I didn't want all this bright colorful yarn to go to waste. In Jan- Feb of 2014, I grew fascinated with granny squares. I remember browsing for hours at length when my daughter was asleep; looking at different patterns of granny squares. Crocheters have been making and joining squares into shawls, scarves, table runners and entire table clothes. I wanted to make some myself but couldn’t think of a project that I could use them in. Since my skills were still very new, I wasn’t sure I could join the squares neatly.

In March 2014, I came across The Snail of Happiness. I got a chance to try making granny squares. So, I sent a few squares to be added to The Masterpiece. {more details in my next post ;) }

After I mailed off the squares I thought of using the bag of scrap yarn to make a blanket for my daughter. It is warm in Mumbai, so I knew she wouldn’t use it while sleeping but she loved the colors. She would constantly try to take the yarn balls to play with, line them up and name the the colors. I must have started making the squares in August and finally completed the blanket in the end of November.

It is a very simple pattern. There are eight granny squares joined together in the center of the blanket. Then a few rows of the granny stitch in white yarn, to kind of give the squares a complete look. After that, three rows in the seven colors of the rainbow. This works like a frame to the picture of the granny squares in the center. Then three more rows in white. The fourth row in white is used to join the granny squares at the edge to the body of the blanket. What I did here is measured the number of squares needed on each side of the blanket and joined them into a row of squares. Then it was easier to join this row of squares to the body of the blanket. I gave it a very simple shell border. Three rows of moss stitch, one in violet, second in white and third in violet. Then the shell stitch all around in violet.



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