Angus's Blanket

It's done, and he likes it.

It started off as one of those stash busting projects and when will I learn that those don't work? You never have enough yarn and so you always have to buy more yarn, but it's never quite the colours/brand that you were trying to use up, resulting  - in my case - in some dubious colours. 

I'm hoping that this doesn't show, that actually the multi-coloured rows work next to each other, that the end result is pleasing. It certainly adds a pop of colour to a largely monochrome bedroom!

I often feel a bit flat after I've finished a blanket, a little ambivalent about the finished result, and I think it's because they are such a mammoth projects that I grow weary of them. I need to put the blanket away, get it out in three months, and realise how beautiful it is. 

I think also that my tastes in blankets have changed recently. I'd like to make something calmer next, perhaps in one or two colours, with the emphasis more on texture than colour. Something that isn't a granny stripe or ripple or chevron design. But this is what I do know: the next blanket I make will be for me, the pattern will be all my own choosing, I will buy yarn (good yarn!) specifically for that project instead of cobbling it together from scraps, and it will be luxurious and beautiful.

But this is what I have made: a blanket that is practical, washable, colourful, full of contrast, full of love. That is a good thing to have made.

As always with blankets, I gained momentum as the project neared it's end and I have to say that I enjoyed every stitch of the border (details below) and think that is a great pattern.

So, one blanket for a lovely little boy. I asked him what he likes about it - once we'd all gotten over the tragic fact that it was not black and white and not a "badger blanket" - and, quite simply, he likes that I crocheted it for him. Nothing more than that. He just likes that I made it. That makes me very happy. 

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Blanket details:

Hook: 4 mm

Yarn: mostly Stylecraft Special DK with some Deramores Studio DK leftover from another project.

The Stylecraft Special DK colours are:

silver

graphite

white

mustard

mocha

parchment

lime

petrol

meadow

boysenberry

The Deramores Studio DK colours are below with Stylecraft suggestions for a close match in brackets:

blush (raspberry or pomegranate)

topaz (aster or turquoise)

indigo (midnight)

Size: 150 cm wide x 170 cm long

Pattern for blanket: the fabulous Attic24

Pattern for border: Spot On Edging - the marvellous Lucy at Attic24 again