Quickly made easy baby blanket

This is taking the basic granny square pattern found here:

http://www.crochetcabana.com/tutorials/granny_square.htm

and continuing the pattern until you get your desired size. This example is about 30x30. I just used 2 strands of sports weight yarn. One was baby blue and one was white. I used a large needle to make it a little more flexible and softer for the baby hands. I used a size M/9mm needle.

This is the finished product:

This worked up in about 5 hours or so for me. Not terribly long. I would have kept going but I ran out of my white yarn and still had a bunch of blue. I need to get better at making my yarn last longer.

Its a very easy pattern that you can either make your squares ahead of time at the size you prefer then work up a blanket when you have enough squares, or make it continuous like this one for a quick baby blanket. Really good for last minute baby showers. :-)

My first custom order!

Shell Stitch Baby Blanket Pattern via knittingdragonflies

I finally have my first custom order. The joys of free ad placements on Craigslist. I really need to work on 2 more things. That being---

1) getting a etsy store going
2) getting a paypal account set up.

I'm leery to use PayPal. I have heard SO MANY horror stories of their customer service. And I am partial to Regretsy and none of them are too fond of their work. I may try a wepay account... however not as many people use that as use PayPal. 

But tomorrow I will head out to hobby lobby or joanns and pick up the colors she wants her 2 blankets to be.

I am so excited to be making something that potentially will be two  little boys favorite blankets. I always hope that some baby item I make becomes the wubby blanket, binkie, or what have you. My daughter has a handmade blanket by me and I had a blanket my mom crocheted for me that fell apart before i was 3 because I drug that thing around like Linus does.


As of right now I am suffering from a severe debilitating disorder I call Crochet ADD. I have probably 20 balls of yarn in my duffel bag. (Who buys craft totes for 100$ or more when a duffel on casters from walmart is 25$?!) and I currently have 3 ongoing projects. A baby blue and white shell pattern blanket that will go into my store, another slouchy beanie, and some washcloths. I am just not able to zone out on something for too long... and I hate thinking of making up a project that is like 3 weeks of work. The longest I will spend on a project is maybe 30 hours. And that was my daughters shell blanket.

For now, I guess I will go focus on getting at least one of these projects finished!