Lily Pond Blanket CAL

I was just preparing to post a round up of crochet projects from 2016 and realised I have not shared my finished Lily Pond Blanket....so here it is in all it's glory.

I am extremely pleased with how the blanket turned out and thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the cal along with others.

The pattern is still available on Ravelry (click to follow link)

Lily Pond Blanket - CAL

Well, not content with taking part in x1 CAL....I'm going to be starting another...!!

I am keeping up with the Moogly CAL 2015 and now have 6 blocks finished. Each block takes about 2 days to complete so obviously I need something else to keep my fingers busy in between new patterns being released....so here it is the 'Lily Pond Blanket'....looks very pretty...xx

  

Bigger Project...

And yet again...I have not 'blogged' for ages, nearly six months..!!
...but still the crochet goes on.....

During the two winter months I spent in my 'Winter Abode' (we live in a mobile home and  spend the 'closed season' of January & February in a holiday cottage) I started making a blanket, my biggest project yet...!!

I found a fab pattern from Red Heart 'In Love with Color Throw' http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/love-color-throw

I wanted to use more subtle colours rather than 'brights', so these are the colours I chose (Stylecraft Special)...autumn shades...

As I've been finding out, my tension usually appears to be tighter than patterns say, and the yarn in the pattern is 'worsted' rather than 'double knit' which seams to be a bit thicker. So my squares and octagons came out smaller.

What did I do..?? Alter the pattern, that's what..! So my blanket has extra rows of octagons (2 extra octagons wide and 2 extra octagons long, then the corresponding no of squares to fill the gaps in the middle)...easy..!

I also spent rather a lot of time planning the colour scheme, trying to get each octagon & square to have a different colour combination, whilst using all the colour evenly across the rounds etc (my OCD coming into play..!)

Getting there.....

Here are all the main pieces nearly sewn together....and then there are just 36 (I think) triangles to make to fill the gaps.

I'm now at the point of adding the edging, but other projects seam to have taken over a the moment...so I think it's going to be one of those.....'I'll finish it one day"....projects.....I'll post the finished blanket when it's complete.

I just always want to start something new..........