Owen's Nursery Has a Forest Friends Theme

When I saw a picture of the set that Allison and Mike are buying for Owen's room, I immediately thought of one of the blankets made for one of the Rocksusto girls.   In one of my many, many boxes of yarn there was, waiting, just the right yarn to make another Leafy Baby Blanket. 

The yarn was originally purchased to do an afghan for me.   After a time, I decided that I did not want to do that afghan and allowed the yarn to languish in the stash waiting for the right time to do something with it.

Owen's blanket....begun and growing......

The time is now.   Saturday, after finishing the Elf Sweater late Friday, I cast on for the Leafy Baby Blanket using my stash of soft mossy green Willow Burrow Bulky.    I will admit I did not do a swatch.   This is a sin.   Swatches are important.   In my defense, I had just done another blanket (for Owen) using the same yarn in a different color.

The blanket is moving along.  As the yarn is bulky weight this round, it is moving quickly.  While I think I really like the pattern better in a smaller weight yarn, this is looking nice and will be cuddly for the baby.

The "holes" in the pattern may not be the greatest for little fingers and toes....but it is pretty and fits with the theme.  

Next in queue for Owen is a short series of stuffed animals.  Three are (more or less) forest creatures for his themed room.   One is just because I think it will be funny.

Baby Bredeson will arrive next month.  Until I know who this baby is, I am not planning the project(s) to greet the new family member.  Henry, who will be an excellent big brother, will be getting mittens and a hat at the same time.   The mittens will be the vintage Safety Mittens pattern which his cousin Mike loved when he was a little older than Henry.  The hat will be a coordinating pattern that I need to design.