Some friends finally had their baby a few days ago. Congrats to them! And now the important bit – I can finally post my FO pictures of the baby blanket I made. 😉 Let’s get the cat-free picture out of the way first, shall we? (Please ignore the odd lighting effects – it was sunny and neither my camera nor I had any idea how to deal with that unexpected event.)
This is a variant of the Artful Afghan I made a few months ago. I knit this all in stockinette (instead of a combination of stockinette and reverse stockinette) with a garter stitch border. The stripes are wider than the original Artful, since I was using KnitPicks Swish Worsted left over from the Pinwheel Sweater I knit in 2007 and just knitting until I ran out of each color. (The colors are, from the center, Ballerina, Bubblegum, Red Pepper, Fired Brick, Bordeaux, Wisteria, and Navy Blue.) Many thanks to Jeanne who contributed a vital skein of Navy Blue!
“Hmm. These colors seem hauntingly familiar, but I just can’t put my paw on why…” -Chaos
“Hey! May! This is mine. Go find your own stripey floor covering.” -Chaos
“You’re not the boss of me, big kitty! Bring it on!” -Mayhem
Repressed memory can be a good thing 😉
Great blanket! I feel like I’m looking into some kind of time warp!
My eyes! My eyes!!
That is a great blanket! Although in my home, the cats would have taken it over in about, oh, 3 minutes. Once they’d get the sniffing out of the way.
Congrats to the freinds. Hope the baby actually gets the blanket – if the kitties give it up!!
Very cool baby blanket.. which is great because if the child gets attached to it (like my son did) the parents will be seeing the thing long into pre-school days. lol.
Yup, stimulating!
Aww, poor kitties, not getting to keep such a lovely blanket.
I love it! Babies do like bright colors more than the pastels that parents usually choose.
Chris this is really fantastic. The colors and the pattern are so non baby blanket-ish. I’m sure this will be treasured for decades to come.
Great use for yarn leftovers. 🙂 It looks fun!
Love the colors!
Oh, I really like that! It’s different and bright and very cool.
Cute, cute, cute blanket. After I saw your first one, I purchased the pattern (even my husband thought it was a great pattern).
Now, when are you going to make Chaos a blanket out of his favorite yarn?
Chaos is channeling Stevie Nicks? (just checking to see how wide awake you are)
I totally love it! And so will the baby, I bet. Awesome!
Chris- Groovy blanket- it looks like op-art from the ’60’s.
I love the blanket & the colors! That is one lucky baby.
OOh, I love it! Very pretty and bright. As the mommy of two girls, I can say that a baby would like it, as well as a toddler. You did a good job.
it looks super pretty. I hope the kitties didn’t ruff it up too much with their battling.
Oh Chris – that one is so gorgeous.
Well done! That turned out really great. I’m sure the new parents will love it.
Very nice! Thanks for the warning about there being knitting today or I might have fainted! 😉
Kitty duel!!
Cute blankie.
Sunshine AND knitting? Is this really you? lol.
Purty!! Wow, stockinette? That’s hardcore. CoP is in garter and even that is a long slow process.
Ah. The darling kittens are showing the scale. That’s one big baby blankie.
I can see why the sunshine would make pictures so hard! I think our camera gets SAD and doesn’t want to take pictures, and then gets confused when there is some sun to work with (though in all honesty, my camera skills are pretty poor… I should take a class in my copious free time).
It’s beautiful! You really need to knit those cats one though 🙂
It looks very supernatural!
It’s quite gorgeous.
It’s wonderful! congrats to your friends!
Great blanket, and what a wonderful way to use up leftover yarn!
That is an amazing blanket!
“Do not attempt to adjust your picture. We are in control.”
The last shot looks like May and Chaos are doing that fist-bump thing 🙂
i stared at this thing for about two hours straight, spun around in my office chair as fast as possible and now i can fly
I like those colors! I’m all for non-traditional anything.
Dude, that is bright. No pastels for that baby!
Congrats to your friends! I amazed Chaos and May gave it up. Or maybe Chaos did put his paw on why it’s so familiar. Hey they’re kind of like stripey socks, only flat.
I love the optical delusional effect! I am all over getting “odd” colors for babies (meaning I think it’s a great idea).
ooo, it’s so pretty. I like the big bold stripes!
OMG! I had forgotten about the pictures of Chaos wearing the sweater! I laughed out loud all over again!
Wowzers, it’s neither a sock nor a bib nor purple! Chris is branching out! Seriously, that is a beautiful afghan. The babe will snuggle up happily, I am sure.
Very, very pretty! I love bright colors for babies.
That blanket is lovely! You are just so dang talented.
I like this even better than the original. Kudos!