Color Block Quilt

Hey! It's a new blanket for a baby shower...again. This time it's a co-worker.

This was a fast one. While finishing the crocheted blanket below, hubby cut all the fabric for me. Then we finished putting it together in two days. Let's not do that again.

This one is flannel backed with a stripe of color down the middle. Mostly because the fabric wasn't wide enough. If you must count, there are 12 different colors plus the backing. Had 6 of them and got the rest at K&H Quilt Shoppe. Oh, and the co-workers loved it.

Bavarian Stitch Crochet Blanket

I finally finished it...a year's worth of Sundays and a rush at the last two weeks before gifting it away to my sister-in-law for her baby shower. It's mostly Caron brand yarn, my favorite Simply Soft, and the white is the One Pound yarn (about 3 of them). This is the kind of blanket you make when you have a big yarn stash and want to cut it down, it uses a lot of yarn.

I had a picture in my head of what colors I wanted in it, and it turned out really big after I got all the colors in. That is hanging over the railing off my kitchen. It will probably drape really nicely off a twin size bed.

The pattern is a variation of a Catherine wheel stitch with the back post treble crochet in the tops of the fans that give you the diamond shaped ridges. The back is smooth and flat, and just as pretty. You work in the round and each color stripe is two rows. Here are the instructions to get you started, on Sarah London's blog for the Wool-Eater Blanket.

P.S. Sis-in-law loved it!