Eight more rows of seed stitch to go.
It was past time to decide what the next baby blanket is going to be because there’s another baby due about the same time and I need to get to it.
When you can make anything at all, how do you narrow it down to a single idea?
(Say the obvious all together with me now: Ravelry!)
Under Patterns, search: baby blanket.
Fifteen thousand six hundred fifteen matches.
I got through fifty pages of results, and I definitely got some inspiration and no I still don’t know what I’m going to make, but it left me wanting to ask–waving a sweeping arm out there–why? Why was there an elephant pattern on just about every page for the first thirty or so, till they finally started to peter out? Two rhinos, one giraffe, (hey, giraffes are a big thing with babies too!) and elephant elephant elephant elephant elephant elephant elephant elephant.
Scroll…scroll… You know you’re getting into the category of only one or two people besides the artist have actually made this one when the raccoons start showing up. (Nods to self, Bought that one awhile ago, maybe I finally will.)
I mean, I get the metaphor: babies are tiny yet before you can begin to comprehend it they’re all grown up and probably towering over you, and certainly over their original sizes. Yes babies and elephant motifs are a longstanding thing.
But I’d be an a** not to consider how it might be interpreted in today’s political climate.
I look forward to the day when things can be normal again and a cute baby blanket is just a cute baby blanket and can comfortably look like anything it wants.