Late Christmas Presents

I have been working on my brothers Christmas present since November, I am finally over half done with it. Now I feel that is is moving quicker, I am using a dishcloth pattern and simply knitted it until I had almost 300 stitches on the needles. I am using Grandma's Favorite Dishcloth and started decreasing at about 280 stitches. I am striping it and have used my stash to make this blanket. I hope he likes it. I did throw some colors into it that will make him laugh, he is red-green color blind and of course I had to use them to mess with him, wouldn't be fun if I did not do that to him. Once i started to decrease I am repeating the color striping backwards. Once it is done I will post a picture of it, should be soon now I am finally on the downside of finishing this one. It is a large blanket it looks to be about 8 feet wide my brother is very tall.