Blanket update
Posted By Liz on September 19, 2009
So, its been a while, and I thought it time to post an update to my blanket.. Its grown a bit!
🙂
Crochet-Crazy (the blog)...
Here are the crochet ravings of me, the projects I do, and items related to the site. I apologise Im not a great blogger, I have good intentions but get easily side tracked, especially by my crochet hook.
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Liz’s bedspread update
Posted By Liz on September 6, 2009
Well, while Im not working away every spare moment on this blanket, its actually growing at a reasonable rate considering its size.
Its growing, see?
The bedspread has begun
Posted By Liz on August 29, 2009
When I originally saw the pic in a design book called “Blue Ribbon Afghans” I wanted it, just like the one in the book, but, frankly theres far too many colours, you’d need a bazillion colours, in the following picture you can make out that the diamons are divided into 3×3 diamonds, well, its the same design as the dad blanket, only bigger, so the original had 9 different colours in those 3×3 diamonds, where they crossed and went towards the centre and so on.. the colour list really was *LONG*
So, this is the simplified version. Ive texturised the 3×3 diamonds by using a purl stitch for one set and simple stitch for the others.. giving a subtle but nice effect
Well, I think so anyway! Btw, Im making this for me – or at least my spare room or as a huddle blanket or something.. I hope I love it as much when Im done.
Dads blanket – crochet complete!!
Posted By Liz on May 30, 2009
I havent sewen the ends, or gone round the colours in a black line like intended, and I may add a border, but, the initial crochet part is complete!
Tonight Dads blanket looks like…
Posted By Liz on May 26, 2009
Update on Dad’s blanket
Posted By Liz on May 24, 2009
As Im likely to forget to update this later or in the morning – heres the current state of play with the blanket for my Dad!
The new blanket begins
Posted By Liz on May 22, 2009
So this is the pattern
and heres how far I’ve got! (Well its wider, but its not very tall.. so I zoomed in on a bit so you could see)
Next crochet blanket
Posted By Liz on May 14, 2009
So, with the completion of the blanket for Tim, my Dads blanket is the next one up for being done. You know the saddest part? Ive forgotten which colours I meant to use in which sections (DOH!) its been so long since I had to rework the order as various colours werent available, that Ive forgotten the decisions we made..
Darn it.
After that – Im hoping to do a GKR logo on a blanket, I have a good plan, I just need to decide how big I want to make it. I could do 2m square but at the same time thats a fair bit big… It would be fairly fiddly, and difficult to make like it looks right – will need to plan that one a bit.
I also want to make me a blanket – I dont have a picture one yet, and with some recent events in my life – I think doing a few more things for me is a good plan. I kinda wanted to do one like the evil twin or the one for my Dad as I really like the pattern, but, Im fairly sure by the time I get to the end of one for Dad I will be a little fed up with the pattern.. So, it probably needs some adjustment… 🙂
I also have a friend Id like to make a blanket for, but they need to decide colours and patterns and stuff, I guess I need to remind them to think about it!
The handover
Posted By Liz on May 14, 2009
So, today I handed Tim his blanket, he seemed to like it – this is good, Im glad him and his family got it before he left for Aus. Dumb me forgot to sew one of my “Made by Liz” labels on it, so I gonna pop round and do that for him tomorrow. I hope then in many years to come someone will look at the blanket and see who made it and wonder what I was like.
Day 37!!!!!!!
Posted By Liz on May 10, 2009
So. While its not arguably “Finished”, the crochet is finished just ends to sew in. Ends to sew in you say? Take a look at the 3rd picture closely, you’ll see its turned over and there are lots of wooly ends where I had to change colours which now need sewing in … this can be a painfully slow and dull process but..
I FINISHED!
