{"id":799,"date":"2013-07-11T17:14:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T22:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=799"},"modified":"2017-01-19T21:13:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T02:13:23","slug":"anyas-first-blanket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Anya’s First Blanket"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to make a blanket for Anya before she was born. I never managed to knit well (slowly and poorly, but not well). I didn’t have a sewing machine at the time, so a quilt was out. I do, however, crochet well (and fairly quickly). After a lot of searching, I decided on a star-shaped pattern with rainbow stripes<\/a>. Then I tried to find a series of yarn that had each color of the rainbow … never did manage that! Everything except the orange are Valley Yarn’s Stockbridge <\/a>yarn.<\/p>\n

The pattern is easy to work – pretty much just double crochet stitches. There are “shells” that expand the points of the star, and skips to form the V in the star. The biggest challenge I had was keeping track of how many stitches between the shell and the V for each row. I ended up with an Excel spreadsheet with a line for each ring.<\/p>\n

The first couple of rows (which ended up being the ‘red’ section for me) looks like a slightly\u00a0malformed circle. I was\u00a0concerned the finished blanket wouldn’t look anything like the examples on the Ravelry page; but as the orange section finished up, I could see the spikes of the star.<\/p>\n

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By the time the green ring was finished, the blanket looked awesome.<\/p>\n

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Finishing up the blue rings:<\/p>\n

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I used a purple-blue color for the ‘indigo’ rings.<\/p>\n

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At this point, we attended a baby\/toddler CPR course. The instructor offhandedly mentioned that she hates to waste everyone’s time since we’ve all heard a hundred times now that babies aren’t supposed to have anything in their cribs. No pillows, no bumpers, no blankets, no toys … wait, no blankets?? So the blanket I’m making for Anya before she’s born cannot be used until she’s a year old?!? I\u00a0did<\/em> mention to the course instructor that, no she wasn’t wasting peoples time. I’d never heard such a thing.<\/p>\n

Now that Anya is five months old … there are lots of places to use blankets other than baby beds. This blanket gets snuggled around her in the car-seat whenever we leave the house.<\/p>\n

Finished blanket is in the next post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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