Jananas

The Knit Cafe is my LYS (local yarn store for those of you not in the know). I had been in one day ogling yarn and their lovely organic cotton when I noticed a sample baby blanket. I fell in love and knew that I’d knit it up for someone. Shortly thereafter I found out that my friend and former coworker Brenda is pregnant with her first child. I’m stoked for her because I know that she’s been crossing her fingers for a while. I’m also excited for me because knitting things for babies is fun!

I bought the yarn for this earlier this month when I was in for a stitch and bitch session. They’d recently received a shipment and because I had limited colour choices/preferences (as they aren’t finding out the sex of their child), I decided to play it safe and buy the yarn now so that they wouldn’t sell out. I picked a lovely soft dove grey as its reasonably gender neutral and is a pretty baby colour.

I had every intention of not starting this project until later this fall, but I couldn’t keep myself away from the lovely soft yarn. The pattern is pretty straightforward and fun to knit. The first 25 rows of seed stitch (thats 25 rows x 120 stitches per row, ugh!) are pretty terrible but once you’re past it its fine. The end result is a soft blanket that looks professional.

I still haven’t sewn ends in, but that’s a project for next week…