WIP Wednesday

I've been following the WIP (work-in-progress) Wednesday on Frontier Dreams for a few weeks and decided to share mine this week.  I'm working on what will hopefully be a patchwork blanket for Finn.  Here is the first square:


I bought the book Natural Knits for Babies and Moms when Finn was a little less than a year old.  I had big hopes and dreams for all the cute little knitted baby items I was going to make for Finn.  I'm not sure if it was sleep deprivation or that I just needed an in-person lesson, but the learning to knit on my own just never happened.  Finally, back in February, I was able to get a knitting lesson with a local knit shop, and that 1 hour session gave me enough info to at least figure out the basics.  So far I've only made washclothes and scarves, but I decided this week that I wanted to try something a little bit more complicated so I'm trying to tackle the patchwork blanket from this book.  I'm using wool (from our local sheepy friends) instead of cotton on larger needles in the hope to make the blanket larger than it is in the book, and I'm planning to make a border between the squares instead of just around the edges.  I'll keep you posted as to how it's going.  One square down, eleven to go.  Woohoo!  :)