Log Cabin - Not Just A Syrup For Pancakes

I've been working on this since July. It's for a friend's first grandchild who arrived in late July.



I'm such a slow knitting that I consider it a victory that it is finished before the boy graduates from high school (mainly because I really didn't want to have to turn this into a afgan for a college dorm bed).



Of course the colors are not showing true in the photos. The red is a more ruby red, the orange is deeper, and the green is more a forest green or india green. Deep, primary colors.

I'll share the secret with you - I was running out of yarn (Cascade 220 Superwash) and bought the only other color my LYS had - black. So to introduce it, I alternated thin stripes of black with the other colors before knitting the border in black. I'm really pleased with the result as it appears more as a design feature than last minute I-don't-have-enough-yarn desperation.