Toddler Boy blanket--ideas?

[chickpea67]

After making blankets for all they young ones in my family-I've decided I better venture over to my husband's side of the family and make a blanket for my soon to be 2 year old nephew. His birthday is in August, so I have time! But, I don't have kids yet, so I don't know what would go over well.

 

Any ideas??

 

Here's what I've done so far and am capable of doing-- i dont mind trying something a little harder-cause hey, that's how we learn. But I didnt want to attempt something too ambitious.

Stripes, checked, SC, DC, sc and dc in the same stitich, always in a row, never at an angle.

[natalie058]

Check out the book Candy Blankies by Candi Jenson. (I got it thru inter-library loan). If you have lots of kids to make blankets for, it's worth buying it, this book has a bunch of great patterns. Ones I can think of that would be great for a little boy are a denim/cowprint blankie, a green blankie with little sheep sewn on like a pasture, and a teddy bear blankie.

 

Edited to add: The techniques she uses are all really simple, too, so you'd be able to make something cute w/o venturing outside of your comfort limit.

[kahud48]

I have access to some good crochet books at my little store.

Click below to see if you might can find something that you would like.

http://www.bath-n-bodycare.com/bath-n-bodycarecgi/shop/amazon_products_feed.cgi?SearchIndex=Books&Operation=ItemSearch&Keywords=crochet%2B&Sort=relevancerank

 

 

http://www.bath-n-bodycare.com/bath-n-bodycarecgi/shop/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=1931543410

[beachlady]

I made one from Leisure Arts A year of Baby Afghans, it has stars and moons, it is adorable and really simple to make, I think they have site, so try and go there and see it. There are so few just for boys.

[Empress Busy Bee]

You can take almost any pattern and 'boy' it up by changing the colors and adding different boarders. I do that a lot, myself.

However here are a few you might look at:

Make this in the green shown, blue, or red.

http://www.yarncat.com/babygrannyblanket.html

 

Make this in bright colors rather than pastels:

 

http://www.craftyarncouncil.com/projects/animals.html

 

Again make these in boy colors:

 

http://www.geocities.com/cdjsimon/bearghan.html

 

http://www.dazzled.com/cromusings/cmfreepats/cmafghanspats/gafghan.html

 

http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/chsb-blanket.html

 

These as is:

 

http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/cja-cray.html

 

http://home.wideopenwest.com/~sag55/duckaf.html

 

http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/cjf-bafg.html

 

http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/cce-rainbowBabyBlanket.html

 

http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/cjf-bafg.html

 

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=e00929

 

http://home.wideopenwest.com/~sag55/stainglass.html

 

http://www.geocities.com/mwillsondesigns/Free/Sailing.html

 

http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/abbeydale/183/pikachu-afghan.htm

 

http://www.crochetnmore.com/babysabcsafghan.htm

 

There are tons out there.

Also Walmart, JoAnns, etc have mini booklets for Kids Blankets/Afghans. Some cute ones in those.

[CatsCradleCreations]

You can check out my cotton blankets here. The boy version is "Blue Jeans." For a toddler, just add one more repetition of the pattern.

 

If you want to make it a bit simpler, on rnds 1 and 2 of the bjpat, just do dc instead of the cross stitch.