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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Blanket plans

Hi everyone!
Long time no blog life's been very stressful but happy to be back : )

I'm experimenting with a new project. My best friends birthday is coming up and I'm crocheting her a blanket

The pattern is from the book happy hooker. From the stitch and bitch series. It's the blanket with the tv design. If you're a 80s or 90s
kid you'll remember that lovely set of colors going up on your tv when the tv or VCR went out.

Being the nerd that I am I couldn't pass it up. Plus in the book they give you a link to a site that will graph out pictures for you so you can knit crochet or cross stitch them : ) I had a lot of fun playing with it. I'll post the link to it soon plus a picture of one of the ones I picked to play with.

The pattern is pretty simple it's the very basic granny square.

You need to make so many squares of each color
21white
14yellow
14light blue
14 green
14 pink
14 red
14 dark blue
9 grey
9 purple
17 black
Each red heart skein made close to 14 squares for me but it all depends on how tight or lose your work tends to be

Now I'm all for budgets and not over spending. The book states specific colors and yarn types. I am personally using red heart brand yarn I got from Walmart for 2.77 a skein
I'm also using a different sized hook I'm using a 6.50 mm hook.

I'm almost half way through the squares I finished my pink purple dark blue and I'm half way through red and yellow. I'm excited!

Plus I've decided after I'm done and piece it together if I don't think it's large enough I'll use my left over yarn from my stash to make a border around it to enlarge it.

I'm volunteering today at Saint Vincent College at the basilica gift shop

It gave me a chance to make some squares....6 in about an hour I don't know if that makes me a slow crocheter or what ^^;

I think they're turning out ok I hope to post a pic of all my squares finished before I put them together

Well hope someone gives this a try and if you have let me know how yours went : )