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

[neeuqdrazil]

I did Anne Hanson's Cradle Me (Rav link) in a superwash sock yarn (rather than the DK called for in the pattern) and it was wonderful, and beautiful, and really easy to knit.

It's charted, yes, but there are only 8 rows of patterning (purl back) and every 4 knit rows is the same, just off by a certain number of stitches.

Plus, it looks way more complicated than it is.

(And I'm actually pondering knitting it in an aran weight as a throw for our couch.)