Crochet post - Violet's rug

Late last year my sister had another baby, which of course meant another rug to make, and I have now begun.

I wasn't going to make the Babette blanket again that I made for her big sister and brother because the joining is so time-consuming, and because I just wanted to make something different, so it took me a while to work out what exactly I would do. I originally planned to use several different motif squares, but in the end settled on only one, which will be interspersed with the plain squares seen on the left. In the end these are rugs for kids to use, so I want it to be reasonably robust.

This is square is called Briar Rose, from the 200 Crochet Blocks book. It's nice but is well and truly going to need blocking to stretch it out flat, and hopefully I can join it neatly to the plain squares even though the stitch count is slightly out.

These photos are the adorable little recipient, taken on my recent holiday. (It's seriously hard to get good pictures of moving children! This one is walking at ten months and into absolutely everything.)