A friend is about to have her second baby, and I knew I had to celebrate with a few knitted gifts. There are hats of course, but where her first received a few handmade blankets, this little one still hadn’t received a single handmade blanket just a week before his arrival!

To remedy that, I hopped over to the store and grabbed some bulky yarn; with my size 15’s in hand, I whipped a fun knitted blanket off the needles in a few quick knitting sessions over a weekend. Below you’ll find my free pattern, if you’d like to make all the second and third babies (and then some) a bit of handmade love of their own!

I made this blanket with muted earth tones in a boyish palate, but I think this blanket would work with just about any color choices. You could alternate just two colors, you could choose a variety of tones of the same color, or you could go crazy with a huge variety!

YARN
Loops & Threads Charisma (100% acrylic; 109y / 100m per 100g) - you will need 9 total balls of yarn, 2 each of colors A-D, and 1 of color E

I used the following colors:
Color A - Forest
Color B - Espresso
Color C - Taupe
Color D - Dark Blue
Color E - Red

NEEDLES
size US 15 / 10mm 32” needles

NOTIONS
darning needle

GAUGE
2 sts per 1” (row gauge unimportant)

SIZE
approximately 36” x 48”