Almond Checkers Baby Blanket

Decided to change the name of this blanket to include some of the name of the colourway, Caron has really creative names for their Caron Cakes. Seems a waste not to use them.

Another little car-seat blanket. I rather like these as a way to keep your baby warm and safe since tucking anything under the seat-belt straps is not safe, with these blankets you just slip the section between the two holes under the chest buckle. It doesn't interfere with the car-seat straps and the baby can't kick it off. Well, as easily anyway; never under estimate the creativity of a toddler. I moved the strap holes up a bit higher on the blanket from the first one of these that I did, it occurred to me that the straps on the car-seat are in the middle of the chest so you need more blanket at the bottom.

Pattern: My own
Yarn: Caron Big Cakes in Jordan Almonds
Needle: 5.5mm
Gauge: not critical

Here is the pattern for this blanket, it's so simple it's hardly worth writing down but here goes anyway.

Cast on 90 stitches and work a 10 row seed stitch boarder. 
Keep 10 stitches on each side in seed stitch and work the rest in “Checkerboard” from the “Knit Stitch Dictionary” by Debbie Tomkies. 
When you reach the point where you want the seat-belt holes cast of the center 10 stitches. On the next row cast on 10 stitches. Repeat where you want the second hole.
End with a 10 row seed stitch boarder.


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