Mission 1: UPDATE

Oh, hi. I'm back!

Remember WAAAAY back in September, when I started this blog, I decided that I was going to knit the Purl Bee Super Easy Baby Blanket. Yeah. That was FUNNY!

What is even funnier is that I thought I was going to knit TWO! Ha ha!

Turns out, when I got started and cast on enough stitches to make the baby blanket into a toddler blanket, it was a much bigger project than I imagined. MUCH, MUCH bigger.


After working on the "blanket" for a week straight, I decided that I was going to make that sucker into a scarf. I am not a patient person and I was getting very discouraged at my lack of progress.

Turns out, it made a pretty cute scarf.


Thank goodness.

Mission 1: The Purl Bee Super Easy Baby Blanket

This, my friends, is the Purl Bee Super Easy Baby Blanket. When I was pregnant with my daughter I found this pattern and decided I would make it before she was born.

Did I?

Uh. No.

Thus, it will be my first project. I plan on making two as Christmas gifts; one for my son and one for my daughter. And to be honest, I don't plan on following the pattern exactly. They will be larger for my two toddlers to put on their beds and, after obsessing about color palettes, I decided to make them two-tone.

Really, I was spending waaaaaay too much time with the color choice. Greens? Blues? Greens and blues? Rainbow? Ugh!

Today, I ordered the yarn from Knit Picks to start my son's blanket. I chose the Comfy Worsted Yarn for it's ability to be washed...a must for kids! The colors? Peapod, a green shade, and Whisker, a lighter gray shade.

I think D will like it.

My next step is to purchase some new circulars since the ones I have won't be long enough to make blankets. Hobby Lobby, here I come.

The yarn should come in soon and I will, of course, keep you updated on my progress.

As for my daughter's blanket? I am thinking Whisker paired with either Fairytale, a red-violet color, or Pomegranate, which is uh...pomegranate colored. Maybe. I don't know! Any suggestions/thoughts?