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The Liam Blankie Project

My family has decided to join together and make a special afghan for my new and soon to be delivered nephew (well...not soon enough for Whitney, she still has to wait until the end of June!). Yep, Alice is getting a baby brother! We are all very excited and of course this has led to us making a baby afghan. For guidance and inspiration I've turned to the Mason-Dixon girls. (heavy on the Mason side though because she is the Queen of the mitered square! Have you seen the gorgeous mitered afghan that she made from Tahki Cotton Classic!? I have been squirrelling away, I mean collecting that yarn ever since because I want one of my very own!!) Anywhoo, about a year and a half ago, Kay organized the "Jamie Blankie Project" and I fell in love with making little garter stitch mitered squares. So, we've decided that we are going to blatently copy Kay's wonderful idea and make our very own "Liam Blankie"!

My sister, who is way more organized than I can ever hope to be, put together this really pretty layout of what the colors will look like. (I'm going to try and post a picture of the chart, but I'm having trouble compressing the image, oops!) My sister can do anything though...she's a super cool sister. Back to the afghan though, all the squares will be striped with cocolate brown, so the colors on the chart represent the contrast color. Basically it's a big ol' brownand afghan! I love it! Michelle, can you stand it? Every square is brownand!!

There are 6 of us knitting squares, Me, my mom, my sister Whitney, my brother-in-law Drew, his mom, and my Grandma Sue. (who is one of Alice and Liam's 3 living great-grandmothers!) Cool, huh?! Over the weekend, I had a little help winding the yarn into little yarn muffins. Of course, she had to try doing it herself too!

The mint and brown square in the first picture is one that I knit, and the red and brown is one that Drew knit. Two down and only 78 more to go...luckily we have it split up so that I only have to knit 14 of them. What's one more project added to the many that I have on the needles right now?! This one is for a good cause though...the first grandson/nephew in our family!