March 11, 2012

• Crochet Blanket – Work in Progress

  I know it’s been forever since I updated, but I’m planning on writing two posts today; one about the blanket I’m crocheting, and one about life.  So…this one is the blanket (which you would have already figured out, had you read the title).

  The afghan/blanket is still in the works.  According to my math (which could be way off, but oh well), I need 169 squares to have a 72″ x 72″ blanket.  I could have made a lap blanket, which would have probably been a smarter endeavor for my first big project since picking back up crocheting, but I’m a big believer of “go big, or go home.”  So…169 squares it is!  I finally got my Raspberry yarn in the mail last evening.  They had to order it special since I ordered more skeins than they had available, and then it was back ordered, so it took awhile to get here.  No big deal…I had plenty of other yarn to keep me occupied in the meantime.

  I currently have 48 squares finished.  12 of each color except the Raspberry   I’m over a quarter of the way finished with the squares, but I haven’t started putting them together yet.  That will happen after I finish 12 or so squares of the Raspberry.  Once that’s finished, I’ll piece together all the squares I have (or most of them, depending on where they go in the pattern), and will start another batch.  This way, I’m not leaving the work of putting them together until the end, and it breaks up the routine of just crocheting squares all the time.

  Here’s what I have finished so far!  (Actually, I have more than that, since I’ve finished up a few more of the brown since I took that photo.)

  

   

  Then, here is what the final product will look like (ignore the fact that this was all done on Microsoft Excel…it seemed like the easiest way to figure out how I wanted the final piece to look).

   

   

  I really wanted something that was random…not a “patterny” pattern…if that makes sense. I wanted to avoid lines or diagonals, and wanted the overall look to feel more hodgepodge. Hopefully I achieved that. I’m pretty happy with the concept for the finished blanket, but if you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know!

  My next post on this will be what I’ve gotten pieced together, so it might be a few weeks. Hopefully I’ll be able to finish up the brown squares today and start to work on the Raspberry colored ones. I absolutely LOVE the color of that yarn, so I’m really excited to start work on it!

  So…what do you think???

   

  XOXOXO,
  K.

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