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Into the Woods Cowl, a free crochet pattern designed by Rachel Misner on Ravelry.

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On the odd occasion Chicago has nice spring weather, I have to crochet in the park 💕

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WIP blanket update 6/05/21*

*The information in this post is outdated because I typed the whole thing up, saved it to my drafts to add links… and promptly forgot to do so 😅 I’ve actually finished the ten-stitch by now, and done work on a few others as well, including my Granny Square Quilt!

Hey, y’all! It’s been about two and a half months since I did a blanket update, but I’ve been doing a lot of work on some of them lately, trying to get as much done on the ten-stitch and granny stripe specifically before I go back to work in a week! My goal is to finish the ten-stitch before the 13th of June, but… we’ll see 😅 The reason I’ve been focusing so much on those two blankets specifically is because they’re not so transportable, so, while I am able to bring projects to work with me and work on them during breaks and downtime, I can’t exactly transport an entire, massive “worked in one piece” blanket like the ten-stitch or granny stripe with me. But smaller quilt-style or pieced afghans are a lot easier to transport, because I can throw a few balls/skeins/etc of yarn into my bag for the day and make a few pieces if I have time! Thankfully, 3/5 of the blankets on my to-make list ATM are pieced blankets—you can check out my “coming soon” blanket post to see what some of those are, but two of them are also introduced in this post!

Not pictured: Granny Square Quilt, because it’s still currently on pause, although I plan to start working on it again once I go back to work; Mitered Granny and Tilt-a-Whirl because I’ve finished them both! Stay tuned for individual posts about those two FOs!

Ten-Stitch (Knit)

As of these photos, I was about halfway through this blanket—I was around halfway through cake four, and I’m planning to use eight cakes total and then use the ninth to just finish up whatever edge I run out of the eighth cake on so that I don’t have a weird chunk missing out of it! Since I took these photos about a week ago (I’ve really been procrastinating on writing this post oops—) I’ve finished the fourth cake and have only a little left of the fifth cake! So, even if I don’t finish the blanket by 6/13 like I’d like to, I should be close and can hopefully get it done before work gets crazy again. As you can see, though, my little furry lady seems to like this blanket already! She used to sleep on it a lot before I had to move all my work back up into my room when my brother moved back into the basement, so I’m sure she’s looking forward to being able to sleep on it again when it’s finished!

Floral Beauty Throw

The last time I talked about this blanket, it was in my “coming soon” post. I decided to make a few test squares before starting the blanket itself, because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to use a US H or I size hook, so I made two squares with each size. The two on the left are with the H hook, and the two on the right are with the I hook. As you can see, there isn’t really much difference between them 😂 I plan to block them (the yarn has a wool content, so I’m going to have to soak rather than steam block, which makes me a little sad because steam blocking is so much easier) to make sure, but at this point I’m planning to use the I hook, and, if I can block all four to be close enough in size, I’ll probably just include the two H hook squares in the final afghan.

On the bright side, I won’t have tons of ends to weave in for this blanket, since the yarn is self-striping!

Total pieces: 4/30 (although I may do more squares depending on how my yarn gets used)

Granny Stripe Blanket

It may not look like it, but I’ve actually done a ton of work on this blanket recently! In my last WIP post, I had about 38 rows done—as of these photos, I have about 60 done! It’s officially gotten too long to double over for photos, and the width of it makes it really difficult to take top-down photos, so it’s hard to get good pictures of, but I really love how it’s turning out so far! I also love how the color pooling has been sort of bouncing from side to side the further I go! I can’t wait to see how it turns out!

Scrap Granny Triangle Quilt

I wasn’t planning on starting this blanket just yet—it’s going to be a good one for taking back to work—but I hit a point recently where I didn’t want to work on any of my WIPs so I decided to start this instead 😅 I’m really happy with how it’s going so far! I’m using scrap and leftover yarn for the triangles, and plan to do some mixing of textures in it. You can already see a bit of that here, as I’ve used some bits of fuzzy yarn, as well as some Caron Simply Soft scraps that have different textures than the worsted yarns I’ll be using for the majority of the blanket. I already know that I’ll have to pick up a few skeins to supplement my scraps, so I think I’m going to look for more of the turquoise/grey/white variegated yarn from those two triangles at the top left, as well as some different shades of purple and blue, keeping the red for more accent triangles rather than making it a main color of the blanket. There are a few things kind of bumming me out about this blanket, though—namely that I’m going to need a lot more triangles than I realized to make the blanket as big as I’d like to… and that it looks like I’m going to have to block every. single. triangle…

I’ve also tweaked the pattern slightly (check my coming soon post to see the photo pattern I’m using for reference) because I wasn’t able to neatly work the corners the way the pattern indicated they should be work, so you can see where my rows are joined in the middle of the triangle sides. I don’t mind this too much, though, and I think once the ends are woven in, and the whole thing is pieced together, they’ll be much less noticeable. Hopefully.

Total pieces: 15/225 (approx)

It's not the best picture ever (because it's absolutely massive...) but I finished this blanket I've been working on for a while last night and wanted to share it!!! It's the fifth (and possibly largest) blanket I've made since being laid off from work in March!

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Where I'm stitching today: watching Stargate SG-1 and working on (yet another) blanket!!!

Yarn: Caron Chunky Cakes in Sweet and Sour

Pattern: Granny Rectangle Blanket by Yarnspirations

Hook: by The Hook Nook (size L/8 mm)

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Current WIP blankets!

I’ve been doing a lot of blanket-making in quarantine. Before April 2020, I had made a single blanket in my entire knitting/crocheting career. In 2020, I made four blankets and started five others!!! I have a friend giving me a lot of grief (in a loving way) about how many unfinished blankets I have laying around, and I took some photos to show them, and decided to turn it into a whole post because I never post anything original here. I’ll have to do a post about the ones I finished last year soon, too, because I’m really proud of them!

(Please don’t mind the mess of yarn on my floor; I was in the middle of reorganizing some of it when I took these photos. Also, my room is generally messy, don’t judge me.)

Ten-stitch blanket

The only knit blanket I’m working on right now! I’m about three cakes into this blanket, and am consistently surprised by how big it is every time I pull it out, because I don’t know when the last time I worked on it was (oops). I’m using Caron Chunky Cakes in Rainbow Jellies!

Granny Stripes

This blanket is absolutely massive. It’s over 8 feet wide and being worked flat, since it’s granny stripes. I’m using Red Heart Super Saver Stripes in Retro Stripe. I have a total of 33 skeins (I think) for this blanket. I’m only getting about three inches out of each skein, if that, so I honestly hope that it’s enough to make the whole blanket!!! I’d love to do some matching throw pillows for it at some point, but we’ll see if I ever get around to that lol. First I have to finish the blanket, anyways.

Granny Rectangle

This is a Yarnspirations pattern for Caron Chunky Cakes yarn, although I fully intend to make the blanket larger than what the pattern calls for. Since this photo was taken, I’ve worked on the blanket, and it’s noticably bigger already! I’m aiming for it to be the next one I finish. I’m planning to use about 9 cakes in the end (unless the rectangle-ness of the pattern makes it an absurd size with that many) even though it only calls for 5, because I like giant blankets. I’m currently finishing up skein 4, and it’s getting to a very comfortable lapghan size! I’m using Caron Chunky Cakes in Sweet and Sour.

Corner-to-corner Scrap Blanket

This is the third scrap blanket I started in 2020 (the other two were Not-your-granny’s square blankets) and the second c2c. When I was trying to figure out how exactly to use scraps for a c2c, I decided to just collect all of the yarn I wanted to use for the blanket and sort it into two piles, putting balls/skeins of yarn that were about the same size into each pile. I also have a few pounds (one-pound skeins I was gifted during spring cleaning at work in 2019) of some less-than-gorgeous green yarn that worked really well with many of the other colors I had pulled for this blanket, so I’ve been doing single-row stripes of that between every other color I use. When bringing a different shade of green into the blanket, I’ve been doing a stripe of the tie-in green, a stripe of cream or purple that I also have an insane amount of, the new color of green, and then another row of cream/purple before the buffer row of green into the next color. (You can kind of see where I used the cream between the grean and the cream/green/teal variegated stripe, and purple before the final very dark green stripe at my working edge). The blanket is currently about 4.5 feet-ish wide? and I’m aiming to end up with a 6x6 foot square at the smallest, because that’s about the size I aim for for my own blankets and the friend I’m making this for is taller than me!!! My scrap yarn (which isn’t entirely scraps, but is also just some leftovers that I don’t know what else to do with and yarn for abandoned projects that got absorbed into this one) is actually going a lot further than I thought it would, so hopefully this turns into a giant, cozy blanket!!!

Granny Square Quilt

Confession time: I love Caron Chunky Cakes yarn. Sure, it has a lot (and I mean a LOT) of flaws, like a lack of consistent strand weight, differentiation in colors within the same dye lot, variation in color order in skeins, and the fact that there’s at least one break where the yarn has been knotted together in EVERY cake, but it’s soft, comes in pretty colors, and is fairly hardy. The first quarantine blanket I made was out of the Ballet Sorbet colorway, and I’ve slept with that every night for several months (with a break over the summer because of the heat!) and, while it’s a little fuzzy, it’s not in particularly bad shape. Also, I machine washed AND DRIED it and it held up amazingly, so I really can’t complain.

I’m using all my Chunky Cakes scraps from other blankets (plus the blues/turquoises, which were leftover from a blanket my mom made) to make a granny square quilt. I can get two of these squares (often with a tiny bit left over) from each color stripe in a cake, so I can get about 18-19 squares from a single cake. I have 74 made as of this picture (I’ve made a few others since, but not many) from the colorways Ballet Sorbet, Cherries Jubilee, Blue Moon, and Bumbleberry. I need somewhere between 144-290 squares for the blanket I want to make (144 for a 12x12 square quilt, but I’m aiming for a giant one that’s more like 15x18) so uhhh I’m not even close. But they look really pretty all sorted out!!!

What have y’all been making lately? What are some of your favorite projects/finished objects from 2020?