Thursday, 1 August 2013

“It’s Hip to be Square” Baby Blanket

It’s finally finished! After sitting around for the longest time and waiting for the last little crocheted flower to be sewn on – it’s done! I couldn’t be happier.
The “It’s Hip to be Square” baby blanket is made up of a series of moss stitch and garter stitch knitted panels joined with crochet chains to granny squares. The granny squares each feature their own little crochet flower. It has a brightly coloured granny border and is edged with a double frill. I’ll be writing a pattern soon.
Front
Back
The blanket is 100% wool. I’ve mainly used Shepherd ‘Colour 4 Me’ 8ply and some Cleckheaton Country Kids 8ply.
 It measures 78cm square or approx 30.5 inches square. Originally I had intended it to be bigger with more granny squares but just wanted to finish it in the end. I’d use a lighter acrylic yarn next if I design a bigger one this one weighs in at about 500 grams in total. Designing another larger one in acrylic or polyester is on my to-do list.
Detail Granny-squares and Flowers

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2 comments:

  1. Linda Zastovnik27 October 2014 at 09:17

    Have you written the pattern yet? I absolutely love this blanket!

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  2. Franie-Jay28 October 2014 at 10:13

    Hi Linda, Unfortunately no I haven't yet. I have all the step by step photos ready to go and some of it written but haven't finished yet. It takes quite a bit of time to write a pattern and check that all the bugs are out of it. I will have to rename it as well because about 12months after first posting pics of this on flickr a magazine came out with a crochet afghan of the same name (not the same design tho' just granny squares). It's on my to-do list. Thanks for the comment.

    Cheers Fran.

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