I heard my baby niece was going to receive a baby doll (and really, who loves babies more than babies?) and that I could make a blanket for same. I had some yarns in my stash that would look pretty together, so I started making diamond shapes and grafting them together using the ladder stitch.

I wanted there to be more visual interest, so I added ridges on some of the diamonds, using a row of garter stitches when horizontal and a column of slipped stitches when vertical. The result was a random windowpane type pattern overlaying the harlequin pattern.

The blanket took longer than I expected, but it was a big hit.