I have always wanted to make the Call The Midwife Blanket - it is so named because the blanket appeared on the BBC/PBS Program "Call the Midwife" and it became a very much desired pattern.
Look at the wee baby - so cute but that blanket - so, so cute!! Of course Call the Midwife has lots of beautiful knit and crochet baby items - so sweet!!
Well..I don't know anyone having a baby and I, myself, do not need a baby blanket so I thought the pattern would make a great prayer shawl for someone at my church.
As it turns out...the pattern was actually a shawl FIRST, turned into a baby blanket, so I am turning it back into a shawl.
The original Block Shawl was in Patons Shawls by Beehive (Book # 129), which costed a whole 65 cents back in the day. It used Patons Beehive Baby fil Bebe Solids yarn, which is no longer made. So, since the yarn was discontinued, so was the pattern.
Luckily though, Call the Midwife, made it popular again.
I wanted to make the pattern in that beautiful soft baby yellow, that I saw on the show, so I decided to make the shawl that color too...hopefully the recipient likes yellow - it is such a pretty, cheerful color.
I am using Red Heart Super Savers in Pale Yellow
It is a fun pattern and easy to memorize (7 row repeat) - I'm glad to have something that is working up so quickly since the last shawl took so long to make. I hope I can finish it by Sunday so I can take it to church to give to our Prayer Shawl coordinator.
My little yarn snatcher wanted to model for me in this photo, where I am trying to show the width of the shawl.
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