I have been working on a blanket for the new baby since January amidst all my other projects. I was sure the baby would be a girl and so I wanted to make something flowery and girly for her. Luckily the ultrasound confirmed that I was right, the baby is a girl, and I won't have worked in vain.

I found a beautiful flower pattern on Meladora's Creations Free Crochet Patterns and Tutorials that I used to make the flowers. I chose to alternate three different colours of pink instead of the pattern she used. I also didn't read through all the directions on how to connect the flowers before I started making them so I learned later that you connect them as you go. I had to undo all the flowers I'd made because it was so much easier to connect them as you go than to try and attach them to each other later. :)

I wanted something resembling leaves for the border and discovered the Crocodile stitch. The internet is such an amazing help. I was able to find a few tutorials online and adapted the stitch slightly to make the scales appear more leaf like. Then with the help of T Adams instructions, I was able to create the border and stitch it to the blanket.

I love the way it turned out, and even though it was a tremendous amount of work I think it was worth it.