Baby Blanket

It took me a while, but it's finally done - the modified corntastic blanket:

Corntastic Baby Blanket, originally uploaded by samjoepics.

Here's the background - a close friend of mine is about to have a baby next month. I wanted to make something for the wee one and asked what colours the nursery might be. She pointed me to the Blooming Marvelous site where the nursery of choice had lots of bright colours that reminded me of the Corntastic blanket I'd seen at my LYS.

I picked up one of each colour of the corntastic yarns and cast on for the small size. (Side note: can you believe that yarn can be made from corn?). Instead of doing the larger stripes called for in the pattern I decided to change colours every 5 rows, and did 3 repeats of each colour. Because it was lacking some red (and was looking a little too small), I decided to adapt the triangle edging from the Debbie Bliss alphabet blanket to add the finishing touch.

I love the end result, and am looking forward to whipping out some matching hats and socks or bootees.

***Edited to add:***
Jeanie said... What yarn did you use?
Answer: The stripes were made using a variety of colours of Kollage yarns 'Corntastic'. The border was made using red Rowan 4-ply cotton. Both are machine washable.