This lovely knitted baby blanket was knitted in five separate panels on my new knitting machine, a Silver-Reed SK280, which is a standard-gauge (4.5 mm) knitting machine with 200 needles and a punch card. I used every other needle for this blanket, at tension 10, and Red Heart Baby Econo pompadour yarn. The yarn seemed too thick to use on all the needles and the carriage seemed to work better on every other needle. It ended up being about five and a half stitches to the inch, which was perfect. I didn't have any particular pattern for this blanket but rather just knitted long panels. I knitted all the panels within a couple of hours, then I mattress-stitched them together by hand and hand-crocheted the border with white yarn. The assembling and crocheting took a couple of evenings. The blanket is approximately 35" x 45".