A blanket for a baby-boy

More than a year ago I visited Oslo. When I was there I bought some nice, expencive yarn from the store Nøstebarn. I was going to knit a baby blanket for my friend I thought. I wanted to give her something Norwegian and something of good quality. At that time I had no idea it would take so much time. I had to give up, the baby was born long before I even had a good start with the blanket. That was in May last year. Then another friend was going to have a baby in October. I was happy so to hear it was a boy, since the yarn was blue. I worked a little bit more on the blanket, and thought I would at least be done before October. Again I was wrong. I am not very good at knitting... I then got tired of the hole project, and gave up for a while. Now I have started once again, hoping to be done before we get our own baby-boy...