I have a dear friend who is expecting. I wanted to work on something for her that would be cheerful and gender neutral, and hopefully work through some yarn in my stash. I found two skeins of acrylic purchased to make one row each in the 13th Doctor's Scarf, a pretty buttercup yellow and soft soothing turquoise. I picked up one skein of speckled white yarn to tie them together. It had lots of colors in it, but yellow and turquoise showed up a lot, with some blue, green, pink, and purple.
The pattern is the 6 Day Star Blanket from Betty McKnit. I spent more like 3 weeks working on it, off and on as I felt like it. The pattern is bands of granny and bands of double crochet, with rows of single crochet between them. I started with all the granny in yellow, all the double crochet in turquoise, and the single crochet in the white speckled yarn, but towards the end I was running out of yarn. I didn't want to buy more, only to have more to stash bust, so I made do with what I had, for a slightly unusual final border.
