Rainbow Pram Blanket

Beautiful Rainbow Stripes

There has been a new addition to our
extended family recently and I

wanted to make something a
little bit special for her when she arrived.

A hand made gift is always special to me and 

I hoped that by making something a baby 

it would always remind them of the

love they create with their arrival.

I have been working on this
beautiful pram blanket

made with the most gorgeously soft wool.

The wool was a bit of an impulse buy

(not like me at all - ha ha)

from KnitPicks

which I saw featured in an advert on Face Book

The yarn is called Mighty Stitch
and is an 80/20 mix of acrylic and wool.

It is so soft and snuggly

and the colours are gorgeous.

I used a pattern by Little Doolally called the

Bertie baby blanket

Its such a simple pattern to follow
but looks

 as though it would take
a lot of hard work to create.

I tweaked the border
to create  a  more feminine feel.

I also felt the blanket was a tad small
with the border detailed in the pattern

so I added alternating rows of
double crochet into the back of the loop

before adding the shell.

The inspiration for the shell pattern was taken from

here which again,
I tweaked a little but is basically the same.

I was so pleased with the end result
and my two little

people wanted to keep it for themselves.

I will definitely be using this yarn again.

It also gave me the opportunity
to make my first entry into my

crochet project bible

This is a fantastic ring bound book
which helps you to keep

a detailed ledger of all your crochet projects

and has space for you enter notes about
the project,

yarn used,

and there's even a
sheet of graph paper for you to

colour in with your pencils and generally

have fun.

It's a fantastic little book.

All that is left for me to do  now is wrap the blanket in some

pretty girly pink tissue paper and parcel

it up ready to send.

Until next time,

enjoy you day.

Bernice
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