My friend DeLilah had an addition to her family about a week ago, a baby boy. In preparation for his arrival, she commissioned a baby blanket by me. So I went to Hobby Lobby and bought several skeins of “Lambie Pie”, a fluffy, ruffly eyelash-ish yarn. I was thinking about doing a bearghan, but the Lambie Pie is… what’s the right word? Challenging? Difficult? Sucktastic? I tried to swatch it, and wound up throwing things. Not gonna be a bearghan.

But I had some really cute baby-weight yarn that went reasonably well with the blue Lambie Pie, and I decided to make some little granny hexagons and join them with the fluffy stuff. The fluff is okay to edge and join the much more visible yarn, but working back into itself is nearly impossible. Here are some shots of the work in progress.

It’s almost done! Just three or four rows of motifs and some more fluff around the edges, and it’s ready to wash and dry and hand over to Granny Dee for distribution to the young’un.

It’s not huge, certainly not a full-on twin size bedspread, but just a wee little binkie.  Now the race is on to finish it before Christmas!

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