I made this blanket in the weeks leading up to the baby's arrival - it's a super easy pattern by Purl Soho. It's an ideal project if you are a new knitter looking to move beyond scarf making as it is all made in garter stitch.
Knitting endless rows of garter stitch can be quite tedious but the colour changes helps keep the interest and it is perfect TV knitting - my blanket was largely knitted while watching the full first season of 'House of Cards'.
The blanket is knitted in one of my favourite Rowan yarns - Creative Focus Worsted. It sheds a bit but it is lovely and soft and comes in a wide range of colours. I chose seven colours for the blanket in various shades of pink and purple - I included one band of cream to break up the colour a little.
The whole project was knitted on 4.5mm circular needle to save my wrists and there are 22 garter ridges per colour block (44 rows). This was a mistake on my part as the original pattern calls for only 20 garter ridges.
It's very warm and snugly - perfect on the pram in this continuing awful weather!
