Penguin throw blanket

here's a baby blanket that I knitted for a dear friend of mine, she had a beautiful baby boy!
                                                                                     

I started off by making all the center squares. ( the whole blanket is done in garter stitch)

Grabbing second color, picked up stitches evenly on one side.

knitted in garter stitch for about 10 rows 

and continued to pick up along each side all the way around

Adding the third color and continuing the same process 

 

Adding the fourth color.

First square completed with all the colors.

was having a hard time trying to get the bright green to show up in the pictures, this one show it pretty well.

 

Sorry Dog kinda photo bombed these (he was sleeping and rolled over. lol :) )

   

And the almost finished project.



I did put a boarder on, i just forgot to take pictures of it all completed, for the border i just too the color of the middle square and went around two sides of the square, for example the bottom left middle square is bright green, so i took bright green down the left side of only that square and around the bottom side of that square, so above it would have been bright blue and next to it on the bottom would be dark blue.

i was inspired by the log cabin type of blankets, i came up with this pattern, the stitch count and row count, on my own. i did not use a specific pattern for this blanket.