Baby Blanket

A coworker of mine's wife is having a baby! Babies are great! At the time that I started working on this blanket, he said they were going to be surprised as to the gender of the baby- so I chose a yarn that was mostly yellow with some rose and blue accents, and a border of yellow. Later he told me that it will definitely be a boy, but too late to change yarns!

Either way, it's dreamy soft, though I used an "adult" yarn for the main part of the blanket, and a "baby" yarn for the border. I also alternated the type of crochet for each row- intermixing single and double crochets. By the time I had used up both skeins of the main yarn, it was still and awkward rectangle, too wide, not enough rows. I made up for this with the border- there are four rows on the long sides, and only two on the short ones (all single crochet for the border).

I don't really have a baby of my own to model this one, but my kitty is the closest thing I have... so I baited her with a couple treats into being my model. (: