My cousin Juli had a baby! I knitted a baby blanket for her, my first time making a blanket. I experimented with alternating knit and purl stitches in chunks to make a checkerboard pattern. It ended up not being very square, because my stitches got tighter at the end when I was worried about running out of yarn. Regardless, it is soft and cuddly which is what matters for a baby blanket. It was so fun knitting with gigantic yarn.
