With my newest due date, I have 102 days left til Baby M is due to show up. (Apr 2nd is my next ultrasound due date for all of you wondering about gender...)
I decided to pull out my stash and found a few skeins of Shine (knitpicks, cotton)
Having seen the super popular "Mason Dixon" dishcloth around the blogs for months now, I looked through my collection and found the original pattern from around 1992 (it was a free hand out at a store I shopped at once) Changing it a bit so both my yellow and blue skeins would be used equally I came up with Baby M's first burp cloth. (I made about 10 of these type of blankets back in 1994 for Christmas)
Instead of crocheting around the edges I picked up stitches with the yellow and knitted a few rows with it then changed to blue and did some seed stitch. I increased a bit at the corners each time around, maybe a bit to much... it seems a bit wavy, but it's going to work and is nice and soft and baby friendly patterned.
I have extra Shine left over in pink, yellow, green, blue, orange... I'm thinking of doing a plain stripy cloth with seedstitch boarder (seed stitch is my newest favorite thing ...)
I'm also thinking of scrapping my baby blanket idea and getting some more shine. Price wise it's not bad, and it's just so soft.... I'll wait til after the 2nd before I decide on colors.