This came from a leaflet called Snuggle-Up Baby Afghans. It’s the one with the blue and pink stirpes. I’ve got a couple of upcoming babies and at least one is a boy, so I decided to use all blue. This is a very bright blue for a baby but I like it. They say babies respond better to bright colors so why do we make everything for them out of pastels?

I debated whether or not to add the fringe, I suppose because I don’t really enjoy making fringe, but the waffle texture and stripes made it look a little too much like a dishrag without the fringe. It’s funny how I consider finishing tasks like weaving in ends and adding fringe to be work but crocheting to be fun. The motion for adding fringe is almost exactly the same as for rug hooking, so if I were a rug hooker, that’s what I’d be doing all along and I suppose I’d think it was fun then. Actually, I started a rug once but never finished it, so maybe I just really don’t like that hooking motion!

I’m not very good at getting the fringe all trimmed up evenly and usually end up feeling like I cut it three times and it’s still too short but Todd is concerned that a baby could choke on fringe if it were too long so in this case short fringe isn’t a bad thing (not that I’ve ever heard of a baby fringe choking incident).