Here it is the end of April and with just 9 weeks left before it’s go time, I thought I’d share all of the things I’ve made so far and what I have left to work on. The first week of March I began the first of many geekling knit and crochet projects that I had slated to make for our little boy due in June. Happy knit/crochet! Hope you enjoy the pattern. I’m sure I’ll get that done before Lila arrives next month, right? I really need to block it, because in my test swatch, blocking really made the broomstick lace panels pop beautifully. I really love how the blanket turned out! Mine ended up being 20″ x 30″ unblocked.
Size 35 or 50 knitting needle, or broomstick (I literally took the plastic broomstick off of my toddler’s play broom and used that!), referred to as broomstick throughout the pattern Size 8 knitting needles on 32″ cable (You’ll knit back and forth like on straights) Worsted weight yarn (I used Hobby Lobby Yarn Secret in Lilac, 2 skeins) Materials Needed for the Lila Baby Blanket Of course, if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to let me know either in the comments or via email. I also included a quick video clip I took of myself transferring the stitches from the knitting needles after doing a garter panel back to do another broomstick crochet panel, so I think that will help. However, I did add two links in the pattern to the resources I used to teach myself:Īnd as I’ve mentioned that it’s a combination of crochet (broomstick lace) and knit (garter stitch), you need to be able to do these two different techniques to be successful with following the blanket pattern, but I promise it’s super easy otherwise.
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I don’t go into detail on how to do broomstick lace in the pattern, so it assumes you are familiar with the technique ahead of time. I finished the blanket about a week before Christmas, but just got around to formatting the pattern to share publicly this weekend. I couldn’t find anything like it, so I just decided to take notes and possibly write up the pattern to share later. I somewhat recently learned broomstick lace crochet, and I remember thinking it could easily transition to knitting needles to do a combo project, and the idea was born to make a baby blanket from alternating broomstick lace crochet and garter knit stitch panels. And knit flat across, back and forth, instead of increased from the corner.
It got me thinking of doing something similar with alternating lace and garter panels, but with “prettier” lace. What’s an indecisive pregnant mama to do?! I stumbled upon a Lion Brand pattern that both my husband and I liked the concept of, but I wasn’t super fond of the look of the particular lace it used, nor the fact that it was knit from the corner and increased from there. I was torn on whether I wanted to knit or crochet I prefer the look of knit, but crochet is so much quicker for me. I didn’t want to use the same pattern that I used for Liam just to mix things up a bit, and spent days going through patterns on Ravelry to find just the right blanket but couldn’t decide. With our second baby, Lila, on the way (I can’t believe she’s due next month!) I of course had to whip up a baby blanket.
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