I started this baby blanket before P was born but it took me until her first birthday to finish it (uh...her quilt should be finished in time for her second birthday.) This is the Puppy inspecting it right off the needles. Post-blocking it's a good crib size blanket.
The blanket is the Baby Moderne Log Cabin from the Mason Dixon book (the first one...there may be more now, but I have been out of the loop.) Colors inspired by a beachy-table runner at my cousin's house in Gloucester, Mass. It's Cascade 220 Superwash, and makes a nice squishy blanket that has spent the winter in the Puppy's crib. The only modifications I made to the pattern were to separate the colors with a garter ridge of the dark blue and to use attached i-Cord instead to finish the edges. I just like not having raw edges on this style.
In other news, this is the sewing blog world's Kids Clothes Week and I intend to spend the goal hour per day of kid clothing sewing making up for the sole gap in the Puppy's wardrobe...spring and summer jammies. The 12m fleece footies are too small and too hot, as are the Christmas jammies below. I'll be using the same pattern bottoms in quilting cotton, and while they are too big to be scrap projects, I've got three pairs cut out that will take care of two pieces of fabric that have been leftover from quilt projects for close to a decade. I also have tentative plans for a spring/summer outfit to wear when (if) we visit DC this summer.
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