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North Salt Lake, Utah, United States
I'm a woman with degrees in creative writing and cultural anthropology, experience in retail sales, merchant processing, teaching English as a foreign language, and archaeology, who teaches writing and computer classes at a local college, and works for a herpetology society. I also like to read, cook, knit, watch movies, make baskets, take photographs, craft, travel, and blog. I currently live in Utah with my husband, T, and our two dogs. Oh, and I'm a Cancer, which explains the crab thing.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Quick Baby Gift

A wonderful baby present that I was given recently was a little Minnie Mouse blankie.  It is absolutely adorable!

When my friend M saw it, she immediately thought that her little girl, who is about 6 months old, might be really into a little blankie like that right now.  Since I knew we were getting together soon, I decided to knit her a bunny blanket buddy from a pattern I had used before.

I grabbed a skein of hot pink chunky yarn flecked with rainbow colors, and took a look at the pattern.  There was no gauge listed, but I wanted to be sure the blankie stayed manageably-sized for a little one, and that I wouldn't run out of yarn.  I basically eyeballed how big I wanted it to be, which required having to rip out and redo a few sections, but it was still a very quick project.  I like that the pattern starts from the bottom corner and moves up, with yarn-over eyelets along the edge for a little bit of detail.  The knotted hands are very easy to manage, and while the directions for knitting the ears feels very strange, I like the angle they make from the head, and the fact that mine always curl in opposite directions for a little personality.  And embroidering the cute face was a cinch.

Considering how much time it spent in M's little girl's mouth, I think it was a hit!