oh, baby!

Well let's face it - everybody's pregnant right now.   I don't know about your circle of friends/family, but 'round here - everybody's pregnant.  So there have been many a request for blankets, including a colleague of mine asking for "four baby blankets - you pick the design, I'll let you know gender as they're revealed".   So I got to work. 
It took about three weeks to amass six blankets; I decided I'd reveal them with some flare for once, so I began #sixdaysofbabyblankets on Instagram - my favourite place to showcase knitted wonders (other than here, of course). 

First I made this one - a cabled stroller blanket, I made it smaller than the pattern calls for.  

You can find the pattern on Ravelry here.

I then moved on to some colour blocking.  I used a yarn I hadn't before, double-stranded, and frankly am not that pleased with out it turned out.  This patterns needs a much more solid DK to achieve the look I wanted (and have done in the past, see here). 

You can find the pattern on Ravelry, here.

I needed something other than blue or grey to work with, time for some colour - and shape!  Chevron is so fun to knit up:
Two pictures to show the colour contrast that happens - be careful when online shopping!  The pinned blanket on the left is an accurate idea of the colours - on the right, you see a picture taken in sunlight an the colours look quite distorted. 

You can find this pattern on Ravelry, here.

I then wanted something a little more traditional, so I made a blanket I've made several times before - Ravelry pattern here.

Finally, my entrelac addiction took over, I couldn't resist finishing my first entrelac projects as baby blankets, and am so thrilled with how they turned out! 

These I used basic entrelac technique to complete on my own, sans pattern.  

All of the blankets took a Soak bath....

....then were blocked and photographed! 

And that's all folks!     ...well not really, as since I started six days of baby blankets, I've received and started two more. Bring 'em on, and stay tuned for more #sixdays!