The blanket is not as big as I’d planned, but it’s big enough, and it will be augmented by the border.  I’ll get to that when this has dried.

It looks a bit dark, both because this photo was taken at night and because it’s wet.

Each color was used 5 times, and the tails were woven in by crocheting over them as I went along (see this page for more details on how to do that).

4 repeats of the color pattern are complete, and just 1 more to go before the border!

It’s definitely smaller than I had planned so I’m going to block it before I add the border.  When I get to that point I’ll share some new techniques I’m going to try!

Well, that’s all for now.  Thanks for stopping by!

It’s looking more and more like a little blanket!  I measured it recently though and it’s like 6″ shorter than the length of foundation sc I measured at the beginning.  Does that ever happen to you?  What’s up with that?

This is so fun!  And there’s still a ton of yarn left — maybe I’ll have enough to make another baby blanket after I’m through with this one!

Well, that’s all for today, I’m keeping it short!  Thanks for stopping by!

Last time I posted about this blanket, I mentioned how fast it works up.  I miiiiight have just been overexcited about finally starting a crochet project — it seems like it’s taking more time now.  I’ve got two reps of the colors done:

As you can see I decided to not jumble the colors up throughout the blanket.  I like it so far!  I do kinda wish I had incorporated the purple into the body of the blanket and saved a different color for the border, but that’s OK.

Well that’s all for now.  Thanks for stopping by!

How do you decide on what order to use your colors?

I like to try to evenly space dark and light colors, cool and warm colors, and colors in the same family, but that’s not always easy!  Each color in this blanket (except for the purple that’s for the border) has now been used once, and it’s time to decide whether to repeat this color pattern or do like I did in the as-we-go stripey blanket and mix them up while still trying to follow those “rules.”  Decisions, decisions.

This is a very enjoyable pattern; it looks great, is easy to memorize, isn’t too hard on the hands, works up relatively quickly, and is totally unique!

Will update with more soon.  Thanks for stopping by!