My First FO!

I made this baby blanket for my daughter's physical therapist when she had her first child last year. She has a "Finding Nemo" theme in his nursery, and finding colors to match that was pretty difficult. I finally found some, though. And I thought I'd picked an easy pattern - right off a yarn label, so how hard could it be?

Ha! I used Bernat Baby co-ordinates self-striping in blue/green and white/orange, so it wasn't the color changes that got me. No, it was the fact that this was crocheted ON THE DIAGONAL!!! As you can see from the picture, it's not exactly square. My stitch count was off at the beginning, but I didn't realize it until I was nearly done, and there was NO way I was frogging that much work. This took me about a month to do, working off and on.

Baby Tyler is still using and loving this blanket, though. His mom tells me that no ends have popped out and that the yarn is holding up well through many, many washings. I'm so happy that they are actually using it!