Blankets

This is the finished baby blanket. It's now en route to my nephew who is nearly two weeks old and home from the hospital.
I have started another blanket for him for an xmas present, it is a dark blue (sort of denim blue in colour) and is a pinwheel shape, so round but with a pattern running though that separates the sections (from ravelry, very useful for patterns and ideas). I made a small blanket following this pattern once before and it is simple to knit but looks lovely. I went to John Lewis and stocked up on wool for it - this blanket will be Sirdar Snuggly in shade 0353. It really is lovely and soft and nice to knit so should be good for the baby.
I also bought some more grey wool that will become scarf (the alpaca will be a hat and wristwarmers I think) and some purple wool to make another beret style hat.
Which makes me think that I haven't posted anything about the beret hat - another ravelry pattern and knitted in multicoloured wool. Photo of that another time, need to finish this so that I can go and put homemade pea soup through the blender and have lunch.