Baby Blue Scrap Yarn Blanket

You hear the wonderous news, a new baby! Yours, a friend's, a colleague's, a family member's. You have approximately 5 months to get some presents ready or maybe even less!! ( I'm assuming they haven't started telling people until 24 weeks)

What are you going to do, are you going to make a hat, a matinee jacket, what are you going to do?

And you should probably buy more yarn too right?

But you have so many projects on the go right now and you probably shouldn't buy more yarn, you have so much already. Maybe you could use something that's in your stash! But there's some stuff that isn't really suitable for baby wear, some yarn you were saving for something else and just a load of scraps from a million other projects.

That's it.

Dig out your scraps. Gather them all up, choose a colour scheme. And go with it. Get yourself a nice big project bag and get stuck in.

I chose a blue theme. So all my scraps are blue, green or purple. The thickness doesn't really matter, I have a mix of everything here from fingering right up to super chunky.

You're going to need an 8mm hook. And about 200g of white dk too.

So choose a nice long scrap to begin with and this colour is going to be the colour for you row of chain and all if not most of your first row too. 

Take you piece of coloured yarn and your piece of white yarn and hold them together. Work the entire blanket double stranded.

Ch 70. 

Row 1: Ch1, sc 70.

Row 2: Ch1, sc 70.

Continue in this manner, turning the corner with a ch1.

Change colour whenever you feel like it or whenever that scrap of yarn ends.

Keep going until the blanket measures 44 inches. 

For the border:

Attach to any of the sides of the blanket, Sc to next corner, into corner st sc, ch1, sc. Sc to next corner.

Continue around edge of blanket. At end of row join with a sl st to first st of row.

Repeat border rows until it is 8 rows. Tie off and weave in ends.

Finished blanket is 49 x 35

And steam block!

Yeah, I'm not so great at the blocking, I tried it with this blanket but I didn't do such a good job, I should probably try it again.

Et, voila. You now have a lovely finished baby blanket and much fewer scraps of yarn. This blanket is perfect for a blanket for a cot or pram.

Link to this pattern on ravelry! I want to see all your gorgeous blankies!! or use #babybluescrapyarnblanket on instagram.

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