The Thrill of Surprise

One of my coworkers is preparing to welcome his first tiny human into his family.  As is the custom, I was asked to make a baby blanket for the wee one.  They have chosen to keep the specifics as to which brand of tiny human will be joining them a surprise.  With this in mind, they have chosen yellow and gray as their colors, and requested something in a chevron.

Everyone has that Grandma, Aunt, Neighbor, etc. who keeps the chevron blanket on the back of their couch since the dawn of time.  And that blanket is almost always yellow, or orange, or brown.  I couldn't, in good conscious, do that to this new child.  I used all my knitterly knowledge to override the request for yellow and went for a gray-scale instead.  The baby will thank me one day.

Within days of being asked to make this blanket, said coworker's mother also requested a blanket, with one caveat.  This blanket had to be gender specific.  And since we don't know the gender, she was actually asking me to make TWO blankets.

So, three blankets later and this baby is covered.

I was struggling with creating the same blanket three times so close to Christmas.  The monotony was eating away my will to live.  The only thing I could do was vary color block size or order.  I got through it.  Now we just need Baby Bean to arrive and see which blanket gets used.

Chevron Baby Blanket knit with Juniper Moon Moonshine in "Dew," "Moonbeam," "Conch Shell," "Charcoal," and "Cotton Candy Blue."

UPDATE: Baby Bean made his arrival shortly after New Years, and the gender specific blanket was his "going home" accessory.  He seems to like it.