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Another Completed Project
Mar. 23rd, 2020 05:05 pmA friend of mine is having a baby soon. She’s a coworker in China who stayed behind, and the way things are going, it looks like I won’t be able to meet the baby until we go back to school in August, but that’s alright. Baby will be a few months old by then, and while newborns are sweet, it’s fun when they can interact.
I used self-striping yarn for this project. It is Lion Brand Just My Strip in the cherry colorway. I used the corner to corner (C2C) stitch pattern and made a rectangle. I didn’t measure or anything. I just added clusters on both ends of a row until it was as wide as I wanted, then only added clusters to the one end to add to the length. When the blanket was as long and wide as I wanted, I filled in the rest of the rows, decreasing the amount of clusters per row. I’m not great at explaining it, but there are some easy-to-follow videos on the YouTubes if you’re interested. Like all crochet projects, it uses a lot of yarn. I used nearly four skeins for this blanket, but I like the plush feel and the texture of this stitch. As you can see in the bottom pictures, I made a blanket for my old man doggo, Spike. I used bulky yarn for that, and he spends pretty much all day curled up under his blankie. I also made one for my nephew a couple years ago when he was born, using this really velvety Bernat yarn (my niece got a knitted cotton blankie).
One cool thing about C2C is that because it is essentially pixelated, you can use the stitch to make cool patterns, like this cool alpaca pattern. I don’t have the patience or the skill at managing so many color changes, but it is pretty neat.
I used self-striping yarn for this project. It is Lion Brand Just My Strip in the cherry colorway. I used the corner to corner (C2C) stitch pattern and made a rectangle. I didn’t measure or anything. I just added clusters on both ends of a row until it was as wide as I wanted, then only added clusters to the one end to add to the length. When the blanket was as long and wide as I wanted, I filled in the rest of the rows, decreasing the amount of clusters per row. I’m not great at explaining it, but there are some easy-to-follow videos on the YouTubes if you’re interested. Like all crochet projects, it uses a lot of yarn. I used nearly four skeins for this blanket, but I like the plush feel and the texture of this stitch. As you can see in the bottom pictures, I made a blanket for my old man doggo, Spike. I used bulky yarn for that, and he spends pretty much all day curled up under his blankie. I also made one for my nephew a couple years ago when he was born, using this really velvety Bernat yarn (my niece got a knitted cotton blankie).
One cool thing about C2C is that because it is essentially pixelated, you can use the stitch to make cool patterns, like this cool alpaca pattern. I don’t have the patience or the skill at managing so many color changes, but it is pretty neat.
