In which I once again combine my interests with fibre crafts. (Because I have 0 self control and get excited about starting new projects).
I decided to make a Dracula Daily blanket
I’ve always wanted to try making a temperature blanket but the year long commitment intimidates me and I’m not sure the temperature interests me enough to keep me motivated.
But! I had the idea of, this year, doing a Dracula Daily temperature/tracking blanket. For each entry, I’ll do another row on this blanket and hopefully (fingers crossed, coz I’m notoriously bad at dropping things) by the end, I’ll have a blanket out of it!
My friend suggested doing it so each character gets a different colour. I’m trying to use up the mountain of yarn I already own but I did want to stick to a very limited colour palette (inspired by the logo) so I did have to go out and buy a couple more colours for the different characters.
Jonathan’s colour is this lovely red yarn I’ve had for ages and didn’t know what to do with. I really like how it feels which is good coz it’s gonna make up the bulk of this month. I thought I had quite a bit but I’ve gone through this call very fast so I may have to buy some more (so much for ‘no more yarn’)
So anyways, it’s currently day 3 and so I’ve done 3 rows on this blanket so far. Here’s the in progress shots:
Through the power of friendship and counting, I reckon there’s about 109 entries which isn’t a lot for a blanket so I’m use double crochet (US terms) to bulk it up a little bit.
Rather helpfully, I managed to cut my finger yesterday. It’s not terrible but it makes it kinda uncomfortable to hold the yarn like I normally do so the last two days have been slightly slower going as I’ve had to adapt to crocheting differently than normal.
This blanket is also quite large so it’s gonna be Fun come summer when I have to have a massive blanket on my lap to work on it.
Well that’s all for now, I shall keep you updated!
