Simple Baby Blanket Suggestions?

[linaelyn]

I'm nothing like an expert knitter -- I don't even have a knitting icon uploaded! I've have my first sock on the needles for the past six months, and I can't seem to get it right, no matter how many times I frog it out and start again! But a dear friend is having a baby in April, and I think if I work with a really nice yarn, I can make a baby blanket from a simple pattern.

Anyone have a favorite they'd like to suggest? (Ravelry links work for me.)

Thanks!

Comments

[commodorified]

The baby blanket we made last year:

Cascade 128 Superwash, 4 skeins. For your local weather you may want Cascade 220 Superwash, 6 skeins, for which I can also give you directions.

6 mm needles, we used longish circulars. For 220 use 5 mm needles.

Cast on 84 stitches to give 24 inches (With Cascade 220 c/o number to give 24 inches according to the label, as precision is not that important).

Row 1: K2 P 2 to end
Row 2: work back (knit knits, purl purls)
Row 3: P2 K2 to end
Row 4: work back

Repeat

If making blanket in a solid colour, keep doing this until you have 24 inches of blanket, more-or-less.

If striping: with 128, change colours every 16th row. With 220, change every 20th.

Finish by working i-cord around entire blanket.

(This is how I did it then. How I would do it now, for the same look but less messing about at the end, is to make an 84-stitch i-cord, pick it up on a needle to make a cast-on, work the rows as:

Row 1: K3, K2, P2, at least 3 Slip 3
Row 2: K3, work back to last 3, Slip 3
Row 3: K3, P2, K2, at last 3 Slip 3
Row 4: K3, work back to last 3, Slip 3
Repeat

And then bind off with i-cord.

This is easier than it looks and I can talk you through it.)