More crocheted blankets

[mafief]

I think I only posted one pic of my husband’s afghan in the ‘I’m still figuring this out’ stage. I settled on 9x12 squares which roughly means its almost 6 ft x almost 8 ft. Huge! Since I didn’t realize it would be THAT big when I first started the project four years ago, I didn’t purchase enough yarn. The yarn that I used for this blanket comes in dye lots, which means that the colors differ. There is no way I’m going to find the same dye lot from 4 years ago… So, I had dark and light yellow to work around. I think it ended up working out in the end and doesn’t look like too much of a mistake. I also worked around my hatred for tucking in ends and did most of it before I sewed squares together. There are still ends, but less of them so I don’t hate everything. Husband is very happy about the almost finished project and has already been using it even though there are ends untucked. So yahoo for most likely getting this blanket done very soon! :)

I’m standing on a chair and the ruler you see is a yard.

Next is Mr Three’s blanket, since he requested one. I took him to the craft store and had him choose his yarn. At first, he went through the yarn aisle and put one of each color into his shopping basket. Ok mom, need more rules… We narrowed it down to a lime and dark green and left before he changed his mind. The pattern I found, didn’t give him a choice of another, and he said he liked it. The original pattern has a counter-clockwise twist, which looked a little strange when I put a few of them together. So, I reversed the pattern to give a clockwise twist. I think having both directions give the blanket a better flow. I also thought of a nice boarder to finish up the blanket whenever I get to that. Mr Three didn’t give me an opinion either way and is just happy that he’s getting a green blanket.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

The afghan is absolutely lovely. And Mr Three's blanket is looking good too.

[mafief]

Thank you :) I'm happy I can do something fun like this for my family. They'll likely have these blankets for a very, very long time.

[scfrankles]

I really like your husband's afghan. The different shades of yellow work so well together, and I love the patterned squares. Nice carpet too ^___^

And I've been trying to think what Mr. Three's blanket reminded me of and it's suddenly struck me - the individual squares look a bit like green sushi ^__^

We narrowed it down to a lime and dark green and left before he changed his mind. That did make me smile ^__^

[mafief]

Thank you. :) Originally, my husband's blanket was just going to be the pattern squares, but I thought it looked very busy. I like breaking it up with the bright and happy yellow.

Hehe, my landlord chose some nearly indestructible carpet that goes with almost anything. Not soft, but very durable. ;)

You are absolutely right about the sushi. I totally see now that you've mentioned it.