Baby Log Cabin Blanket

I wanted badly to test-drive the log cabin style of knitting made notorious by the Mason-Dixon Knitting book, and my recent resolution to bust my stash gave me the perfect opportunity to do it. I ended up using up a significant amount of my stash, and I am thrilled with the results! Who'd have known that I could come up with these color combinations just from stash?! Normally I'm so OCD and would have to plan out a project like this down to every color and stripe sequence, but this time I forced myself to keep it as random as I could stand it. There are 16 colors total, with 8 colors on each corner. The yarn is Caron Simply Soft, and I used US size 8 32" circular needles. Each stripe is 6 garter ridges wide, and I used the lime green to edge the blanket. I really like how it picks up the green in the blue/purple/green side and the yellow in the red/pink/orange side. I highly recommend this project for anyone who needs to use up some yarn and who loves the stress-free knitting of soothing garter stitch. It was a delightful knit.

After I finished up this project, I decided to pick up a blanket I'd put away for some time. It's a 100% cotton flannel receiving blanket that I'd started a crocheted edging on. For a while I was accumulating as much of this yummy fabric in various prints as I could get my hands on, so I'm considering this as part of my yarn diet/stash-busting. These blankets are just perfect for those summertime babies!