Lately I have been making baby floor mats. These are "blankets" that are not large enough to wrap around a baby but which are perfect for putting on the floor and laying a baby down on to have a space between baby and floor. I have made several. This time I started making a crocheted rectangular blanket but found my hands wore out way before the blanket was big enough. At that point I decided to add some knitted borders.
The first set of knitted borders was a disaster! The first problem was that I tried to do a mitered corner. It was late in the day and I was not thinking. Mitered squared DECREASE at one corner so decreasing at four corners was the wrong thing to do. Next I had added two stitches at each corner on either side of the actual corner stitch. This made a TERRIBLE corner!
After working five colors of knitted bands and knowing absolutely that it did not work, I pulled all those knit stitches out back to the crocheted rectangle and picked up stitches again. This time I only added one stitch at each corner. It is not ideal but it worked out sort of okay. Well enough that I am going to give it to the new baby this week.
Tomorrow I will make this baby floor mat one of the finished objects I speak of on my YouTube channel video. In case you are interested, that channel is The Country Wife From Vermont. I will see if I can link the channel here.
