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Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Baby Blanket Ta Dahhh (plus border edging pattern)
A couple of weeks ago I set a new record for
myself. I started and completed a baby blanket in 3 days. THREE DAYS. That
sounds fast, however, the reality was that I didn't leave the my seat in that entire time, have left a permanent butt grove in the sofa and am now suffering from
chronic tennis elbow (more about that in later posts haha!)
Crochet is normally a relaxing happy pastime but
not this blanket! I was in a panic to finish and can safely say, I will never
churn out another blanket so fast ever again. I am maintaining that this
particular blanket has nothing to do with my TERRIBLE time management and is in
fact down to her being born prematurely. That is my official line. I will gloss
over the fact that I knew she was going to be premature and that I also knew weeks
in advance that she could have been born any day….
When I posted the photos on Instagram, I had a
lot of people asking about the pattern and my border so I will tackle both
those things in this post!
Firstly the pattern. It is from MyPicot.com,
this square doesn’t seem to have a name but it is very pretty! The direct link
to the pattern is here – I initially found the written instructions a little
tricksy (no idea why, clearly I was having a brain fart day) so instead
followed the chart that is available in the downloadable PDF.
I continued my square until it was roughly the
right size I wanted and then stopped.
The scalloped edging was a little too flouncy
for my liking so I squared it off.
The border is 2 rounds, the first round was to
square off the scallop, the second round was a round of crab stitch.
I have drawn a rough chart for you to see the
stitches I used for the squaring off. If you need any help, please don’t
hesitate to ask in the comments below and I will do my best to help!
A word of warning if you follow my instructions
for the edging: YOU WILL NEED TO BLOCK THE BLANKET. There is no escaping the
blocking I’m afraid. I hate blocking with a passion so I can only apologise for
this! Haha!
You may find that going down a hook size will
help avoid the need to block but as I was rushing (and therefore not thinking)
I used the same size hook for the entire blanket so haven’t tested it myself.
Blanket Stats:
Yarn: Rooster Almerino Aran
Hook size: 5.5mm
Time: 3 crochet intensive days where I only took
pee and sleep breaks LOL
