#phoenix blanket

[crochetingwiththecat]

The Book Cover

So I'm not sure when I'll actually START the blanket cuz right now I am very much in the design and planning stage as it's huge and everything needs to line up.

I'll start with breaking the parts down to pieces, the center most piece is pixel art I made by using a book cover I found online (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-odyssey-homer/1123741766) which I liked the look of. Then I tried using softwares to pixelate it and it . . . Didn't go well. So I drew it myself. It took 4 days. It was horrible. But now it's done and I'm never doing a pixel art that big ever again.

Anyway, here's the pixel art of that.

To turn this into a blanket piece, I'm gonna be using tunisian crochet purl stitches to create a giant (183x282) piece of fabric that I can then cross stitch the pattern onto. I've done this before to make another blanket for my friend:

The swatch I made of the yarn I'm using (plymouth worsted merino superwash) is 20x20 stitches to 4x4 inches (which is my gauge for the whole project.

Here's the swatch blocked (6×6 inches) made with an F/3.75mm hook.

[octobercrochet]

Finished this pastel rainbow Phoenix blanket for our exchange student! Took me about 3 months to do (from Oct to Feb, but with 2 months off to work on baby blankets for coworkers) . It fits comfortably on the top of our king-sized bed, so I would say it's roughly 75 inches square. If anyone is interested, I have progress pictures of each part, but since there's 11, it's too many for a single post. Now on to a baby blanket for my best friend who is expecting!

[2022-crochet-and-crafts]

Phoenix update!

I just finished row 44 and my clock is a bit shy of 21 hours.

And here’s Friday for scale.

[2022-crochet-and-crafts]

Phoenix update!

Just finished row 50. My timer is at 24 hours!

Here’s Friday for scale.

[frozenmetalfire]

Day 5 of the Phoenix blanket. This will be getting out on hold hopefully at the end of this week as the yarn I ordered will finally be in. So this will go on hold as I frantically crochet a baby blanket for my friend. That one won’t have update picks as I don’t want to spoil it.

[frozenmetalfire]

Day 4 of the Phoenix blanket. Got four more rows done. Out of the 15 yarns for this project I have three that I haven’t used and I just finished row 20.

[frozenmetalfire]

Phoenix day 3

I only got two rows done yesterday but it’s something. Part of that is the puff stitches was killing my hands.

[frozenmetalfire]

Day 1&2 of the Phoenix Blanket using just the yarn I have in my stash. Just an FYI for anyone wanting to make this blanket the first color way is 15 colors.