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The time has come for me to embark on a bigger than bootie knitting project.  No time like the present to start on a baby blanket for our little one.  For some reason I am drawn to the color off-white or cream.  If it didn’t dirty so easily, everything I own would be cream colored.  Our living room shag area rug is cream (and I love it).  Pretty much every time I go to a yarn store I end up leaving with some new and different off-white yarn.

It was not easy to find a baby blanket pattern that I liked.  Most of them are puke-y baby styles with frills and lace or boring stockinette stitch for like 1,000 rows. Often when I look at the accompanying photo to a knitting pattern I have a difficult time getting past the yarn that is used.  I’m guessing many patterns might draw me in if they weren’t photographed in gross pastels or hippie tie dye colors.

The pattern I am using is in a book called Hand Knits For The Home. It has tasteful designs and pretty pictures of things made with pretty yarn.  

The blanket I am making has a repeating star pattern done in seed stitch with a seed stitch border. This will be my first time working off a chart. I’ll let you know how it goes.  😎