My dear friend Tracy is pregnant and is expecting her first baby girl this October.  I thought, what a perfect chance for me to make a baby blanket!  So I set out the mission to make one.

Once I made the decision, I realized that I have never made a baby blanket before.  Strangely, I have done two or three adult size afghans, but never a baby one.  I guess I just never had a friend having a baby before. So I went for a quest to find a nice and easy pattern…

Boy that proved to be hard.  I don’t particularly like the granny square ones.  I prefer something simple and clean looking, at the same time pretty and practical.  Am I asking for too much?  *sigh… I spent a few days digging online to find the “perfect” pattern.

At the end I set my eyes on a teddy bear one.  Oh it is so cute!  I picked Bernat Softee Baby yarn in pink to do it, but it just looked too pink for me.  So after trying with 3 or 4 other yarns and colors, I ended up using one strand of white and one strand of pink.  The color looks girlish but not too pink. I kind of like it.   Here is a picture of what it is supposed to look like.

Teddy Bear baby blanket

While working on this blanket, I discovered another pattern that I just LOVE.

Knit baby blanket

I am starting on both patterns now.  How I would love to get both of them finished this month.  I just can’t wait.

Here are the links to these two patterns:

• Teddy bear pattern: http://www.knittingonthenet.com/patterns/babyafbear.htm
• Baby blanket pattern: http://andreatung.blogspot.com/2007/08/baby-blanket-pattern.html

And here are all knitting and crochet patterns I have found online: http://www.evernote.com/pub/sandyq/KnittingAndCrochetPatterns/