New discovery: Baby yarn is unspeakably sweet and soft. If only there were some way to keep it from growing up into rebellious and moody teenager yarn.

I didn’t use a pattern for this, just bought two skeins and knit until it looked big enough (well, and really, really needed to give it to the recipient). A nice, easy knit 3- purl 3 checkerboard pattern with a knit 3 garter stitch border. I like how the texture came out quite a bit, and because I tend to knit tightly, I sized up a needle. This gave the blanket a really nice drape!