I am really delighted with this blanket. I love how easy it was to make, how colourful it is, the mix of textures, and that it used up loads of my cotton stash! That takes me to a total of 647g used this year. Not an enormous amount but a great start.
I started out intending to make a foundation row of single cricket for the border, followed by one row of double crochet. Once I got to that, I wanted another row of double – then another. With the c2c pattern using a lot of multiples of three, this seemed appropriate.
Comparing before and after pics, I think this was the right choice. I think you can hardly see the squares that are smaller than they’re meant to be. A little blocking helped with this, of course, but I think the border evened everything out nicely.
Some of the yarns were different weights, and you can see that they’re having to stretch a little further to be the and size as the others. But I actually like the variety.
I’ve thought quite a few times about making a blanket that features different textures – in some of my more far fetched daydreams I even consider using twine for a square. Until I get to thinking that through more, this is a nice nod to the idea.
I smile every time I look at it. I hope the baby likes it – though they won’t be born until April so I’m way ahead of the game!
As a reminder, this is the Gingham C2C JAYG Blanket (Ravelry link) by The Patchwork Heart (link to free pattern on maker’s site).
The Crafty Yarnster 