Knitters’ Row

This was my first ever crochet project.  Super easy.

This was made from yarn I received in a trade.  A joy to work with and super warm.  I would like to get more of this to make a sweater.  Dimensions are about 4 x 4 feet.

Materials:
6 balls of TLC boucle
Size 7 circular needle

Pattern:
Cast on 3 stitches
Increase every other row 1 stitch on each end

Keep in pattern throughout entire blanket as follows:  right side (k1, p1) wrong side (purl) this will create a broken rib pattern so that it will look like ribbing without drawing in.

When you have finished the third ball, start decreasing every other row by knitting two together till you have 3 stitches left.

Bind off last three stitches.

This is the third afghan that I crochet.  I am hoping that it will be my last as these take a lot of time to do.  This was also done in panels of double crochet (25 sts) by 20 rows each.  I then added on a 2 row border around each panel with the blue.  This is very warm, and very easy to wash.  It does get softer with each wash and hold up much better than the pink blanket and does not pill like the striped blanket.

Materials:

Size H hook, 4 balls of Carron One Pound yarn, 2 balls of Carron Simply soft

The blanket has 35 panels (5 x 7).

This was made for Becca for her new room.  I used 2 balls of Super Soft baby yarn in those HUGE balls.  It did not take as long because it was crochet in smaller panels of double crochet.  Then each panel was sewn together and a border was put all the way around the blanket.  This yarn did not get as soft as I thought it would have in the wash.  I was a bit disappointed.  I don’t think that there is any way to get acrylic to soften up.  Each panel is 25 stitches across and there are 12 total panels.

Materials:

2 balls of light worsted weight pink baby yarn Pound of Love (800 yds per ball), size G crochet hook.

This was crochet for a single sized bed.  I used 13 balls of Carron Simply Soft for this project and I think that it took FOREVER!!!  Each section of blue and pink color change was approx 1 ball, 20 rows.  I think the cast on was somewhere around 250 sts.  I had 5 balls of blue, 5 balls of pink, and 3 balls of green.  I used what I had left of a pink ball to do a chain linked/slip stitch edging on the blanket.  Simple, yet pretty.  This gets softer each time I wash it, but it did stretch out quite a bit when I first washed it.  I am not sure if it would do the same if knit.