The self striping baby blanket

Yesterday,  I started a baby blanket for a close friend. Her baby boy is due in 7 weeks time. 

She's chosen a blue double knit self striping wool. I'm not sure I'm in love with the colours yet, but then It doesn't really have any colour repeats yet so it's hard to judge.

I'm a little worried that I won't finish it in time as these blankets take many hours to complete. There are over 140 stitches per row and it's very fine wool knitted on a UK size 4 mm needles.

Having said that, my four month old is a poorly boy at the moment, so my job is to cuddle him and make him feel better, this project is going to have to wait until he's feeling brighter.