Train Blanket - The Beginnings

More train fabric from the friend who gave me the train book panel.  My son wanted to do another job (project) with me.

When I got this I figured it was perfect.   I asked him what he wanted to make and he said a blanket.  The fabric's not very big (the above panel is 32"x41"). I haven't decided if I'll try to put some more borders around it to make it bigger, or just leave it and have it be a toddler bed size quilt. 

I'll probably ask him as well.  It is his blanket, after all.  He helped me trim both pieces (we hold the rotary cutter together and we each have a hand on the ruler).  Then he got distracted by racing monster trucks down my mini ironing board leaning against the couch.  Love that kid.

til next time...

A Knit Baby Blanket

We are moved in to our house, but we are not unpacked much at all.  So I give you another previously completed project...the knitted baby blanket!

I don't know if I will ever knit a blanket again.  It takes a looooooong time.  I had planned on making it bigger, but I wasn't knitting fast enough to keep up with the growing baby girl I was gifting it to.  So at one point I just said - I'm done!

I love that it looks like a candy cane! (Yes, the girl was born around Thanksgiving and this picture is near Christmas, so it was time to let it go).  

I used this pattern, super simple, super cute.  The only fancy technique is doing yarn overs and dropping those stitches in the next row.  (And switching colors at the ends of rows, not too bad). It's also easy enough to remember the pattern, so you don't have to keep checking back to make sure you're doing it right.

Yay for cute babies!  I'm definitely sticking to smaller projects for them in the future!  Like these hats, or this blanket.

See you soon!

(...with some more recent projects?)