Project Three: Swine Flu Blanket

Such-titled for the significant amount of knitting accomplished while screening people for the pandemic at the health centre where I work. This huge blanket garnered much attention everywhere I went. Strangers repeatedly asked me for assurance: "It's for a girl, right?" It's not.

Knit for the punk-rock baby of a friend. Seriously, this kid is cooler than you, and he's not even eight pounds yet.

The yarn:

Knit Picks' Swish DK, in Coal and Petal. Took way more yarn than called for, approximately seven balls of each colour to make size small.

The project: http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall08/PATTopart.html

The result:


The rest: It was a pain to knit with over 600 stitches in the outer rounds, but much-appreciated by Baby H's parents. I'm sure Baby H will appreciate it too, as soon as he wakes up from his nap.