Comfy Bounce Baby Blanket With Cowboy Colored Stripes

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Another baby blanket is done! I made this one for a dear friend who is expecting this summer.  I asked her early in her pregnancy what the nursery theme would be and she wasn’t sure but when I pressed her, she said “boho cowboy.” Well, I had no idea what that meant, so I decided I’d pick out a bunch of colors that remind me of cowboys and maybe one of them would match the nursery.

I had tons of fun picking out all these colors of Comfy yarn on the Knit Picks website.  Fun fact: if you click on a color of yarn on the site it opens in a kind of pop-up window and you can open multiple colors at once and drag them around the page to see how they look together.  Like this:

Pretty cool, huh?  This pattern is called Bounce by Tin Can Knits and it was super easy to knit.  I followed the chart while I knitted but probably could have memorized the lace pattern if I had tried. I made the crib size and it came out to be 53” tall, which is huge, but it still worked up pretty quickly.  Here is a close-up picture of the lacey parts:

Whenever I changed colors I wove in both ends while I worked so I didn’t have too much clean up at the end, which was nice.  I have never woven in two ends at once – I was worried it would be super bulky but it wasn’t bad at all.  I followed the instructions on this really old knitting website to weave in ends while I work.  The instructions have you weave in the yarn tail every other stitch when you are weaving in one end, so to weave both colors at the same time, I just alternated one color on one stitch and the other color on the following stitch.  It was slightly fiddly but it beats the alternative.

yarn details

Knit Picks Comfy Worsted in Whisker, Ivory, Hawk, Honey, Hollyberry, Planetarium, and Marlin
Worsted Weight
75% Pima Cotton 25% Acrylic
machine wash and tumble dry low
~$4.49 per 50 g/109 yd skein
Purchased in February 2022

project details

pattern: “Bounce” by Tin Can Knits (buy on designer’s site or as a Ravelry download)
size knit: Crib
needles: US size 7 (4.5 mm) – used my sunstruck circular needle set
yarn used: 881 yards (8.08 balls) – see my Ravelry project page for a breakdown by color (one ball was enough to knit about 4 of the colored stripes)
finished size: 29.5” wide and 53” tall
duration: March – May 2022