Archives for July 2016

Sparkly Baby Blanket!

July 25, 2016 By: Deena Pricecomment

I tend to work on 5-10 crochet projects at a time…sometimes that means that a project can get pushed to the side and not completed very quickly. This last weekend I decided to dig an old project out and complete it since I am caught up on my temperature blanket finally!

I went digging through my pile of UFO’s (Un-Finished Objects) and found this cute baby blanket that just needed an edging finished on it. The yarn is a beautiful shade of burgundy with a silver thread running through it. I found a white yarn with a silver thread running through it in my stash and decided it was perfect for the border!

Close up of blanket and stitches:

The pattern for this blanket is free and available at – http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/clusters-and-crosses-blankets

I chose to do a simpler border because my thread already has a lot going on!

For the border:

Row 1 – With white yarn, SC around whole blanket, join with SS

Row 2 – Chain 2, 2DC in each SC around, join with SS

Row 3 – Chain 2, 1DC in same stitch, *1DC in next stitch, 2DC in next stitch around*, join with SS, Tie off white thread

Row 4 – Switch to burgundy yarn, Chain 1, SC in each DC around, join with SS and tie off.

Temperature Blanket through June 30th

July 20, 2016 By: Deena Price1 Comment

This blanket is working up so quickly I believe that I will be totally caught up before the end of the week! I am excited to be caught up on it because I really need to work on some other projects that I have already started! I have about 10 projects going right now and I need to finish some!

This afghan is turning out great. It will be 72 blocks by 102 blocks. Right now it is 72 blocks by 87 blocks and it is already 4 1/2 feet long!

I record the temperature for wherever we are for the night when we are out of town. We have done a lot of camping in June and most of the temperatures have been in the pink colors. But one day in mid-June at Wallowa Lake it was only 53 degrees for the high that day, so there is a lonely little 20 block stripe of pistachio! At this point, I am only 20 days behind…and since I only started this project (for the second time) 3 weeks ago, I am really excited!

Temperature Blanket While Camping! – Through May 31st

July 20, 2016 By: Deena Pricecomment

This last weekend was our family reunion on my husband’s side. We all went camping together and relaxed! It was such a fun weekend and I got a lot of crocheting done!

You can see that my picture of my temperature blanket through April 30th and May 31st were both taken outside. I was able to complete 2 1/2 months of this blanket it just one weekend! As you can see from the pinks and yellows our temperatures in April really started to warm up!

I took the picture of my temperature blanket through May 31st in direct sunlight so it is a better representation of the colors. My blanket really isn’t curling on the edges, the ground was just uneven. As you can see in the right hand corner of the picture, I reached the 72 blocks that I needed for my width of the blanket and I stopped increasing on that side of the blanket. In May we added lots of bright pink, orange and even some red!

Temperature Blanket Through March 31st

July 19, 2016 By: Deena Price1 Comment

I have been busily working on my temperature blanket. My goal is to be up to date and totally caught up before the end of July!

Except for the last 3 days of March, all of March temperatures were in the “green zone”! Which means that the high temperatures for March did not vary more than 15 degrees except for the last 3 days. Below I have listed all of the yarn names and what temperatures they correspond to.

All of the yarn that I used is Caron Simply Soft. It is a 100% acrylic yarn. I am using a size H hook. For the purple and blue colors that represent the cooler temperatures of the year, I placed the darker tones for the coldest temperatures. Starting with the pink colors and continuing with all the warm colors, I placed the darker tones with the warmer temperatures.

Purples:

15-20 Degrees – Purple, 21-25 Degrees – Iris, 26-30 Degrees – Grape, 31-35 Degrees Orchid, 36-40

Blues:

Pagoda, 41-45 Degrees – Blue Mint, 46-50 Degrees Robins Egg

Greens:

51-55 Degrees Pistachio, 56-60 Degrees Green, 61-65 Degrees Kelly Green

Pinks:

66-70 Degrees – Strawberry, 71-75 Degrees Watermellon, 76-80 Degrees Fuchsia

Yellows:

81-85 Degrees Super Duper Yellow, 86-90 Degrees Gold

Oranges:

91-95 Degrees Mango, 96-100 Degrees – Orange

Reds:

101-105 Degrees Harvest Red, 106-110 Degrees Autumn Red, 111-115 Degrees Burgundy

Temperature Blanket – Take 2!

July 11, 2016 By: Deena Price7 Comments

You may have noticed that I haven’t posted about my temperature blanket for quite some time…I got behind and then I just couldn’t force myself to pick it back up. I found that I just wasn’t loving the pattern like I thought I would. For a project that I am going to work on for an entire year, loving the pattern is essential! So, I took even some more time off from the project and then I saw another another person that had the same problem as me and she picked a pattern that she loved and just made it work! So that became my solution too!

One of my favorite patterns right now is called a Corner to Corner blanket or C2C. I figured out how big I wanted my blanket to be, adjusted my original colors, adjusted all of my temperature ranges and now I am in love with the results!

I would like my blanket to end up being a throw blanket just about the right size to lay under while I’m sitting on the couch. Here is how I decided to do it:

The C2C blanket consists of clusters of stitches. I decided that I needed my blanket to be 72 clusters by 102 clusters. That gives me a total of 7344 clusters. I am stitching 20 clusters in the color of the day each day. There will be 24 extra stitches that I need to round out my blanket so I added an extra stitch in each color until I had achieved the 24 stitches.

So far I have completed both January and February and I am loving the results! Now I just need more time to crochet so I can get caught up to the present day!

Here is the result from January 1st through January 31st!

Here is the results from January 1st through February 29th! I really love how you can see the temperatures warming up but every once in awhile a cool day slips in there!

If you would like to make your own C2C blanket, here is the link that I used to learn how to make this blanket – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNrS4s5C8vc