Happy Friday! Today is Friday, a day of the week I try to take off from gaming and focus on craft. I like a quieter day because in Islam Friday is the holiest day of the week, and I like to relax on it. I usually game every day, but Friday is the one day I choose not to game (unless there is a new release which I've realised there is today (Harvestella, a farming RPG) so I won't be doing as much craft but will still do a little ^u^)
Years and years ago I followed a crocheter called Attic24 - well her name is Lucy and her site is Attic24. At the time I did not really do much crochet, I just liked her style. She had one or two patterns for sale but was mostly a blogger. Fast forward a few years and a family member has recently learnt to crochet due to arthritis making knitting harder. They bought one of Attic 24's blanket kits which includes all the yarn plus the pattern for around £34 which seems a good bargain given how much yarn there is (around 15 balls I think). I had a look at the site and wow there are so many beautiful blankets! I was tempted to go for a granny square based blanket, maybe like the Aria blanket
but because I'm working on a Disney crochet square blanket (more on that in another post), I was feeling adventurous so decided to try a row blanket (with counting and turning rather than lots of little squares joined together. I went for the Cupcake blanket which uses these colours
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And looks like this
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| Original blanket colour scheme (photo from WW) |
The kit arrived within 3 days - you can get them from Wool Warehouse. I chose to have the bag which is handy to keep them all in. (Not all the yarn is currently in the bag)
I rewind my yarn to make sure there are no knots in and I find a ball easier to use, there is no drag when pulling on the yarn which can happen if the yarn is used as initially provided. I was a bit concerned about what I had taken on, but I realised the pattern was on the Attic24 site so I looked at it and it's just treble crochet which is what I use in my granny squares. The first few rows I did a lot of counting to make sure I had the correct number, but now I can't be bothered to count.
The 15 colours are repeated at least 6 times, and Lucy does list the order the colours should go which is sort of random within the colour repeats. I, however, like order, so I spent over an hour looking at the different colour ways (by moving the yarn balls into the order written) and picked the one I liked the most. I did change where the cream yarn went as I wanted the muted lilac to have a brighter colour by it, and I will just repeat the order 6 or so times. I like how mine is turning out so far! It's a super easy pattern that apart from the start and end of the row I can zone out. I like doing it in the evening before bed while listening to an audiobook.
I already know which blanket I want to make next after this Cupcake one, I want to do Dune which has a beautiful seashell pattern. That won't be until sometime next year, but it's something to look forward to! The blanket is big enough to cover a single bed, which I have, so that's perfect for me. I will update you on progress in due course, although the quickest way to see any is to follow me on Twitter.
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| Dune blanket |
