So I’d basically given up on it. But then, another friend of mine is having a baby next month, and I decided to make them a blanket. Within a few days of that, Becky was complaining to me that Emma’s baby blanket had gotten lost somehow (dropped out of the baby bag in a store, nobody had found it) so I’m back on for finishing the blanket.

The blanket I’m making for Emily (my friend Robbie’s daughter) is a totally different style than Emma’s patchwork squares. On my mom’s suggestion, I’m using four colors and going in stripes, but I’m doing three rows of one color, using two strands, then two rows with one strand of the first color and one strand of the second color, then three rows of the second color, and so on, so that it fades nicely from one to the other. I’m going blue to green to yellow to pink back to blue, and the only transition that isn’t smooth and fade-looking is the pink-to-blue. But it still doesn’t look bad at all, and I’m about two thirds of the way done with it. Wish me luck!