Yes, it has been three weeks since I began working on a baby blanket for a friend. No, I am not expecting a baby.
This week was a bit more productive. I completed the next strip of letters and began on the next border strip. I will need to block the project but will wait until I am complete to do that.
This has been a busy week for my family. Nothing exceptional, just a busy time of year. I was not able to get as much done on my baby blanket that I shared last week. I finished attaching the border strip from last week. I knitted one more and added it to the left side. Slowly but surely I will complete this blanket.
I usually do not post my projects until they are complete, but I thought I would change things up for this project.
Back in early 2013, I completed a letter B dishcloth. The pattern came from a dishcloth set of the entire alphabet. At that time, I thought that they could make a delightful baby blanket. However, no one in my family is expecting to have any more children.
Recently, a friend announced that she was expecting. In addition to being delighted for her, I wanted to start on a baby blanket for her.
I began by designing my project in Excel.
A little over a year ago I began making a blanket / throw for my daughter. Well it is finally done.
This project began strong. I found a pattern a free pattern on-line and started knitting. In the beginning I was able to take it with me, but it soon grew too large. Then when I missed the original deadline of my daughter’s birthday, the project was set aside. At one point I even lost the thing and could not work on it. But here it is, all finished.
What do you do when you get some wonderful yarn that’s FREE? You find a project and knit it up.
My sweet sister gave me a skein of multi-colored bulky yarn. Too be honest, I’m not sure the brand or color name, for there was no label. With only one skein, I opted to make a baby blanket.
I used almost every inch of yarn. I simply cast on 55 stitches with my #10 needles and knitted in a simple garter stitch until I was almost out of yarn. Then I casted off and wove in the ends. The result was a super cute baby blanket.
The only thing left to do was decide what to do with it. Thankfully we are past the baby phase around here, as are my sister and sister-in-law. But with the help of the internet, I found a solution – Stitches From the Heart.
Stitches from the Heart, with the help of volunteers all over the country, donates baby items to families of NICU babies. After having a niece that spent almost 3 months in the NICU when she was born with a heart defect, helping another family touched me. That time in the life of our was very stressful and we relied on prayers to get us through. I’m hopeful that this simple gift will be a blessing to another family at a difficult time. To learn more about Stitches from the Heart visit their website here.
