I am finally done with a baby blanket for my beautiful (future) god daughter – Arianna. There will be a lot of projects named after her, if you cannot tell yet.
I came to help new parents to settle in with their bundle of joy when Arianna was just born. When I asked Alena (Arianna’s mom) what she would like me to make for them first, she replied that she would really like a beautiful baby blanket. I always travel with some amount of yarn in my car, but this time I was especially prepared. I had two different types of yarn in mind with four colors of one, and seven colors of the other one. I am glad that I let Alena pick the yarn and the colors for the blanket, because I would have probably went with different combination. I started this blanket a day after we brought Arianna home from the hospital. I had half of the blanket done when I was still there and figured it would not take long for me to finish.
Oh, how wrong I was.
It started when I ran out of pink yarn and was getting short of white, good with green because I had an extra skein. Not a big deal, right? Carons Simply Soft is available everywhere. Wrong! WRONG! I don’t know what’s up with that, but we are experiencing a SHORTAGE of Caron Simply Soft. It took 10 days of searching and trips to two different Michael’s and AC Moore to find pink yarn, and JoAnns to find white yarn. I believe it is beyond ridiculous. If you know why this is happening, please let me know.
The blanket was finally finished last Sunday, and I got a chance to take pictures yesterday in natural light.
Baby Arianna is one month already! So how long did it take me to finish her blanket 😉 ? That’s a rhetorical question.
All in all I am very pleased with the way it turned out, especially love the ruffles. I hope both Alena and Arianna will like it.
