Geometric Baby Blanket. Pattern from Knitty.com. Amaranth Road Studio. 2011
Knitting for my baby is meditation for their future. I conjure a world that is warm and soft as merino yarn flies through my fingers, creating a web of garter stitch and deep intention. This Geometric Baby Blanket took me four months to knit. A flash in knitting time where projects have a tendency to stretch out for years. But with the baby due in early February time is short if I want to greet my newborn with gifts of wooly clothing.
The pattern for this blanket was designed with a baby's visual development in mind. The starkly contrasting colours begin as a bit of a blur, but the baby eventually learns to distinguish between them. I just liked the optical illusion of a swirling, hypnotic tunnel. It's not your typical lacy baby blanket, and I found that appealing.
In addition to the blanket I managed to whip off a baby hat in a single day during a trip to a family cabin. Spud and Chloe's Apple Hat (size 0-6 months) was an amazingly quick and fun project. The yarn colours are awesome and I love the wool/cotton blend of Spud and Chloe Sweater yarn. I have enough left over to make another hat so I may need to find another baby requiring an apple hat. I also maintain that apple hats are complete gender neutral!
This will probably not be the end of the baby knitting. The projects are so small and irresistible that I expect I'll become addicted.Green Apple Hat. Pattern by Spud and Chloe. Amaranth Road Studio. 2011
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