Tuesday 12 January 2010

Finished cot blanket and the next project

I finished the blanket last night - crocheted all the squares together and then did a border round the outside in a dark purple.  I'm pretty pleased with it:



Each square is five rounds and there are 30 squares here altogether, which is about the right size for a cot.  I hope my brother (C)and his wife (S) actually like it now!  The baby's due on 31 January but S has an inkling that it might well arrive on 17 January along with the full moon.  She's planning on a home birth in a large pool.  Jolly good luck to her, I say.

As I'd finished this yesterday afternoon, I thought I'd like to have a go at making some circles now instead of squares so went searching for instructions but I got side-tracked when I found these images of 'circular' blankets:


 


How unbelievably inspirational are these!  Granny squares (i.e., the cot blanket's made of) are very nice but can be a bit, well, old-fashioned (and that's where you jazz it up with interesting colour combinations) but those circular/amoeba shapes are utterly fantastic, and as for the colours......

I think I've found my new crochet project!

4 comments:

Exmoorjane said...

Wow, wow, wowwity wow. The crochet square blanket reminds me of a subtle, tasteful version of one my Nan did when I was little - ours is a bit moth-eaten and in a sickeningly grim array of nasty colours but I adore it.
The round one is really scrummy too - can quite see why that is such an inspiration. YOu've made me want to crochet!

blackbird said...

What a pretty blanket! It looks like stained glass to me and I'm sure that they will love it. I've never, actually, made up anything from granny squares although the look has always appealed to me. In nice colorways, of course. I think that most yarn colors are prettier now than they were in the olden days- whenever they were.

Mrs Jones said...

Exmoorjane & Blackbird - thank you for your kind words. I taught myself via the interweb and it's actually pretty easy to do granny squares, then, of course, once you've got the hang your brain goes mental thinking about all the lovely colour combinations and...must...get...to...wool...shop and then give them all your money! I won't point out that somehow I've managed to get the squares all staggered rather than line up absolutely perfectly so I've done something wrong there but I don't think the baby will care. Am now making circles like a demon...

Maureen said...

What a fabulous blanket, not old fashioned, but all the rage at the moment! lucky baby. The circle blanket looks great too and I love the bright colours. I am just starting to crochet and just getting the hang of double and treble crochet. I have only ever done a crochet edge along baby jackets in the past.