The Blue Skies Baby Blanket is done and off to its destined owner in the States. A new little human named Daniel will be enjoying the soft knitted-with-love blanket for years to come. Also completed and posted is the Vanilla Mint Chip Baby Blanket for a newborn who has not yet arrived when this posts. Three more dear friends recently announced their pregnancies so I expect to make more little blankets in time for a couple hatchlings arriving in late Spring.
Each hand-knit blanket takes about 200 grams of double-knit wool, 18-22 hours of knitting, and a bit of time for planning and finishing (weaving in loose ends, washing, wrapping, mailing…). In addition to soft acrylic yarn, it is made with love.
It is a tough choice between waiting until the gender is discovered to start a blanket project and starting early with a gender-neutral hue combination. The Blue Skies Blanket has different shades of blue with bits of cream and flecks of yellow. The Vanilla Mint Chip Blanket is green and cream for a surprise baby gender. Green or yellow seem to be classic colors for gender surprises. Yellow does seem more feminine and green slightly more masculine, but combining them with each other or with a hue that is not pink or blue might lend further neutrality, girlish grace, or boyish charm. Here are some of the color combinations I have in my sketchbook.
NEUTRAL: Shades of Green; Shades of Yellow; Green & Yellow; Yellow & Orange; Green & Gray; Yellow & Gray; Orange & Gray; Aqua & Yellow; Aqua & Gray; Aqua & Green; Gray & White; Dark Navy & White; Red & White; Aqua & White; Green & White; Red & Yellow; Yellow & White; Orange & White.
GIRL: Shades of Pink; Shades of Lavender; Green & Pink; Green & Lavender; Pink & Brown; Pink & Yellow; Pink & Orange; Pink & Navy; Lavender & Pink; Lavender & Gray; Pink & Gray; Pink & Red; Pink & White; Lavender & White.
BOY: Shades of Blue; Green & Blue; Green & Navy; Blue & Navy; Green & Black; Aqua & Navy; Aqua & Blue; Blue & Gray; Blue & Yellow; Blue & Brown; Orange & Brown; Black & Blue; Green & Brown; Navy & Gray; Blue & Orange; Navy & White; Navy & Yellow; Blue & White.
Evin
