A Baby Afghan - A Labor Of Love

One staple in almost every child's room is an afghan blanket. If you are a serious knitter and want to contribute to your child's room or the rooms of children belonging to friends, family, or coworkers, you will want to find a great baby afghan knitting pattern that you will use over and over again. This means that you want this particular pattern to offer a bit of a challenge and yet be fairly quick to knit. You also, however, want this pattern to be one that offers variations that will prevent you from getting bored with it.

Blankets are often big projects, the beauty of baby afghan is that it will not require quite the investment of time that a full sized blanket would need. This is also good because we don't seem to hesitate as much about trying new things with small projects as we would with larger projects. By trying new things you are branching out into the realm of creating your own baby afghan knitting pattern or any other pattern for that matter. Trying new things is the only way sometimes to discover our hidden talents.

Here is a great baby afghan knitting pattern: http://knitting.about.com/library/blbabyaf.htm. One thing to keep in mind when knitting any afghan is to go up a size or two in needles when binding off in order to bind off loosely enough. Also keep in mind when knitting for babies that you want to choose a yarn that will be soft on the baby's sensitive skin. Choose soft material in appropriate colors for the baby in question's nursery. I personally am wildly opposed to the baby pink and blue and absolutely refuse to buy clothes and yarn in those colors. I prefer vivid bright colors for babies and tend to look at patterns and yarn accordingly. Besides offering something other than the typical pale baby colors, your afghan is more likely to grow with the baby than to be quickly outgrown by the baby. Of course this is just my opinion on the matter and you are perfectly free to choose whichever colors you prefer.

Knitting a baby blanket is a labor of love, be sure to choose a baby afghan knitting pattern that you will enjoy as well as one you think the baby and the baby's mother will enjoy as well.