I just completed the final stitch in a weeks long crochet project and I'm very happy. It's a gift blanket for a friend and I've been working on it for well over a month.
The blanket is in three colours, made by tapestry crochet, where you bring all three colours along for the ride across the entire blanket. The design is the Aita Blanket by Molla Mills, with some changes to the border, and with custom colours selected by Cindy and me. I saw the pattern in her book Crochet Crush and fell in love with it. Thank goodness the book was in our local library!
This is my first tapestry crochet project. Only my second project overall, to be fair. I did a small sampler with scrap yarn and then went whole hog on a full sized blanket.
the blanket in all its glory
Some stats:
- We settled on the pattern and colours in mid-May of this year, and I bought the yarn on May 27th.
- In all I used two skeins of each blue shade and three skeins of the yellow (I have plenty of leftovers in each colour for smaller projects now)
- I didn't track hours, but I worked on it nearly every day for six weeks.
- I had a due date of the end of July, so I'm happily finished several weeks early.
Now all I need to do is wash / block the blanket and find a nice way to wrap it up to give it away.