Dear friends of mine had a baby boy not too long ago. He has two older sisters. The girls each have a hand-crocheted blanket.

The oldest little girl has a blanket made by her great-grandmother.


I made a copy for little girl #2 since I have a soft spot in my heart for second daughters, what with me being one and all.


Then, the little boy came along, so he gets his own blanket. A speed hooked blanket ( with a lovely pomp-a-doodle edging (pom-pom parade yarn from Herrschners- it was very soft). I was thrilled to be working in blue and excited to try this new edging (from Crochet Today! magazine). I only did two rounds of pom poms rather than the 6 the pattern called for since I didn’t want to have a lot of white. I have it on good authority that darker colors make great edgings, but this was the only pom pom color I liked with the blue…hope he likes it!!