We have two incredibly special baby blankets.
One is the one that Jill's grandma crocheted for her, before she was born. It's big and soft and fluffy, and sometime soon it will go back to the dry cleaner to get cleaned and put away for our grandchildren.
The other, I lucked into in January. The nice people at Lucky Jade gave a stash of their breathtakingly soft, cool-looking, heirloom-quality baby blankets to the blog community coordinator at 23andMe, to give to their new pregnancy community bloggers. No obligation, no review requested, just "here. enjoy."
I promptly dropped a full cup of coffee on mine.
We've now been using the blanket almost daily for more than 3 months. Ours is 90% cotton/10% cashmere, and has a cute-but-not-cutesy turtle design woven into the fabric. The designs are are all baby-friendly, with clean, modern graphics, but an older child wouldn't find them embarrassing or excessively "babyish.
The pictures don't really do justice to how attractive the turtle blanket is -- especially, IMO, in the pink/brown and the light brown/dark brown color combos.
What I like the most is how lightweight this blanket is for how warm it keeps Josie -- and me when I've got it pulled across us both while nursing. Author Florence King once described a cashmere suit as "so soft you could pull it through a ring" -- and until I found this blanket, I never really understood what she meant.
Unless this blanket turns into one of those "loveys" that gets worn out before kindergarten, I think this too will eventually go to the dry cleaners and be put away for our grandchildren. Noah and Josie can fight over who gets which blanket for their children. At between $68-$96 retail, we probably won't be getting another one.
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