One of my colleagues is having a baby, and you know the first thing I thought was ‘what can I make for them?’. I really like making baby blankets and I had a whole bunch of cotton waiting to be used, so off to pattern hunt I went.
I landed on a C2C blanket; I’ve never done this method before and the patchwork pattern picture looked like exactly what I was after. I’m making a Gingham C2C JAYG Blanket (Ravelry link) by The Patchwork Heart (link to free pattern on maker’s site). I used the guide at Bella Coco Crochet to help me learn the basics.
It took me about 90 minutes to learn the technique and finish my first square. I needed both the written and video instructions to understand the turns but once I got it, I was away! I went through a few practice squares to determine my preferred needle size. The cotton was too rigid on a smaller needle and I want a blanket, not a rug, you know?
Each square used about 13g of Drops Paris, on a 5mm hook. I’ve also used a few colours in Drops Muskat plus some Cotton Light from my mystery sweater, which are finer but juuuuuust about the same size when worked up, and some Scheepjes Cotton 8 held double. Colour placement is part inspired by pattern pic, part ‘Does this look good? What about this?’.
I’ve loved making this. It’s come together extremely quickly; I started on Thursday and not just have the border to complete. It’s not delicate work, or complicated intarsia, and I’m really enjoying the simplicity of it – both in process and in look. Plus the colours are so cheerful!
However… look at this pic.
Notice the not-deliberate mistake? The second column from the left, starting with the fawn square, is too narrow. The fawn, light blue and green all have five columns instead of six… and they’re the second row that was made! So I’d have to unravel all the way back and re-do. I feel like no? Not least because I don’t have enough of the fawn or green to make them bigger.
I might be able to get a bit more width by blocking those parts more aggressively than the rest. But ultimately, if I can get the whole thing to look square (which it’s not far from anyway), I think I’ll call out good. So interesting that I didn’t notice at all while making – you’d think that counting to six would be simple, no?
I have added this post to the Unraveled Wednesday linkup, with thanks to Kat for hosting.
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