#sample blanket

[comfortabletextiles]

The blanket project is growing!!

I have 15 different yarns now! So over halve of the yarns I spun!

[nomolosk]

It's been a while since I updated about my Tunisian crochet project, so here it is!

I did finish block 6, and I like the way the pattern looks now... But it's WAY too long in comparison with the other blocks. I may need to re-do it again.

I also didn't end up liking the flexible hook I ordered. I went with a cheap version, and paid the price- the filament at the end was permanently curled in such a way that made using the hook awkward and uncomfortable.

Block 8!

I like the way this one looks. Very structured! Strangely, it turned out *wider* than many of the other blocks, and I honestly don't know why it pulls in there in the middle and is looser on the sides. I feel like my tension is pretty consistent now... but maybe I'm just telling myself that.

Block 9!

This was a fun pattern, although it took me a minute figure out just from the instructions. It reminds me of houndstooth. Also, these are not the colors I was supposed to use, per the book, but I liked these better for this pattern.

However, I'm finding that these patterns don't use as much yarn as I thought they would at the beginning, and I will have plenty left at the end, so I may come back and do it in the intended colors anyway, just to see how it looks.

Block 10!

Honeycomb! This is also not the color I was supposed to use, but the intended color, when I started crocheting, didn't have enough stitch definition. It just looked like a solid color block. So I crocheted a few rows with other colors and ended up liking the definition with this one best.

And here is what they look like next to each other so far!

You can see the problem with block six, although there is definitely a lot of variation going on in terms of length/width of other blocks.

I'm not sure how I'm going to fix this yet, but I'm sure I'll figure something out.

(I also need to weave in my ends for a bunch of them, but we're just going to ignore that for now)

[nomolosk]

Crochet blanket update!

I've completed three more blocks (plus one I did just to see if I liked the pattern better than the one in the book). Now I only have three to go!

Twisted stitch

Honestly, this one was kinda boring when I started, and I decided to add another stitch to it that I saw on a YouTube tutorial- the bamboo stitch, I think it's called. Honestly, you can barely see the twisted stitches at all, but I like how it turned out anyway.

The cross stitch

This one creates a ripple effect in the fabric, almost like ribbing, but not quite. Also comes out very narrow, though it does have some sideways stretch.

The "fan" stitch

Ok so... Honestly I ended up skipping this pattern and coming up with something else. It was awful. Maybe someone out there will like it, but that person is not me.

What the pattern called for:

What I ended up doing instead:

This is... okay. I liked it while I was working on it, but now, a few weeks later, I'm not so sure about the decision to try overlapping the colors like that. Anyway, it's done and I do like it better than whatever that is in the book. Plus I learned a different stitch (I don't know if it has a name, I found it in a YouTube tutorial, in which the chevrons were stacked on top of each other).

It's also possible that this stitch just doesn't look very good working with cotton yarn... Acrylic or wool, which would be more springy, might look better.

And now for the finisher- I redid the wave pattern block in different colors. After looking at all my blocks together, I decided I needed more green. I just used a straight hook this time and it came out okay.

It's on the longer side, but definitely NOT as long as the one I made with the flexible hook. I have several other blocks of comparable length.

Like I said, I also did another block in Tunisian moss stitch while I was trying to figure out what to do instead of the fan stitch. I'm not going to use it in the finished blanket, but here's a pic anyway, lol.

Front. Back.

It's very open, and I definitely had tension issues. Also, funnily enough, the BACK looks more like traditional crochet moss stitch than the front does!

[nomolosk]

Tunisian crochet throw blanket update!

I've completed blocks 5 and 7!

I put off block 6, first because I couldn't figure out the pattern without watching a YouTube tutorial on it (for a couple days I had neither internet, nor cell service) and then because when I tried it with the straight needle I've been using for all of them, I felt like the tension put on the stitches by the pattern itself was pulling and stretching them, making the pattern wonky.

See?

... It might not look so bad in the picture, but I wasn't happy with it, so I frogged it and ordered a flexible Tunisian crochet hook online. I'll try it again once the new hook comes in and see if it makes a difference.

Anyway, block 5: Diagonal lines

Another variation on knit and purl stitches. I like it, but it came out a bit shorter than some of the other blocks. I'll have to carefully match them up when sewing them together so I don't end up with oddly stretched blocks.

And block 7: Columns

Still knit and purl stitches, but this time incorporating skipped stitches as well.

It kinda surprised me how much I like the final result. The picture in the book made it look very flat and boring, but as you can see, there's a subtle wave to the fabric, created by the skipped stitches on either side of the knit stitch.

It's also very loose and long, despite my efforts to keep the tension the same as the other blocks, and very stretchy. I think it would be a nice pattern for a drapey cardigan, shawl, or scarf.