A Blanket for Myself

I was visiting my mom at work one day (she works at michaels :) ) and I came across this interesting pattern. It was for a blanket. Now granted I have made myself a blanket in the past (the grand pappy blanket) I have not made one for myself since I started crocheting. I decided that this was going to be an interesting pattern for me to and eagerly set out to find the colors that I wanted to do it in.

Now the picture on the pattern had mocha, camel, green, and another color that I did not care for so much. I decided that I would use the colors of my brand new painted room and my comforter set to create my blanket. My walls are this athenian sea green color and it is very calming. My bed spread is two different colors of purple: one light and one very dark almost plum dark. All of my furniture is dark mahogany. This room is my favorite spot in the house and rarely leave it because it is so homey. 

The colors I decided to use were a dark mocha chocolate, a plum mist purple, a lavender purple, and a dark fern green. Each having only one row and I only used Bernat Satin Yarn.  

Now, I like my blanket a little bigger then the average patterns, so sometimes I use more yarn then I am supposed to but I don't mind putting in the extra money to make myself happy. I think my starting chain was compiled of 280/300 chain links. I will post the pattern after this because I do not have it in front of me at the moment. 

When I finished the blanket, I took the rest of the yarn and compiled a fringe for the blanket. I cut 6in strands of string and looped them through themselves on the edging of the blanket, following the colors of then pattern. 

This blanket now sits on my bed and keeps me warm if I go outside and sit on the porch or am sitting at my desk blogging lol. As much as I enjoy it, I believe my dog, Maggie, enjoys it a little more then me. :) 

Little Brother Blanket

My little brother  has been a complete nuisance the past two years about getting a blanket made for him. Little does he know that because he is the last child of all five of us, he has to wait his turn. I can only do so much. I finally have the time to make him a blanket (which he knows because I am not working right now) and he has bugging me and nagging me up a wall. I keep telling him that I have to buy the yarn, and he is always eager to go and buy yarn. However, what he doesn't realize is that I have already started to work on the blanket for him. I want to get it done for him over the summer that way he can have it on his tenth birthday (HOLY COW! DOUBLE DIGITS! I remember him when he came home from the hospital and I had to change his diapers...great black mail photos too). 


Anywho, I have been working on this blanket and it is very unique because it has to deal with triangles. I have made these many triangles out of three different types of bright caron yarn. They all look amazing. I am really excited to get these triangles done so I can start stitching the whole blanket together, but I can only do so much while the little brother is at school. I have to constantly hide all my projects on him because he is convinced that I should work on his blanket next. What a cute kid...Oh well, he is going to have to wait.


Any way here is a sneak peak of the triangles that I am working on. I am going to stitch them together with black that way the bright colors really stick out. 


Let me know what you think! :) 

Baby blankets are so much fun!

So this blanket was made for a friend who thought she was having a boy and ended up with a girl. lol. But in a way it was good to have on hand since the previous doctor I was working on was having a boy and she was leaving on maternity leave. Granted we had not known each other for very long, I believe that every baby needs a blanket to come home in, so I gave it to her. :D

This blanket was made with all different variations of blue from Bernat Soft yarn. 

It is made with this "Hark's foot" pattern. It is sooo pretty and has a great edging on it. 

Hope you like it! :)

My Very First Blanket...aka Great Grand Pappy Blanket.

This blanket it known as my Great Grand-pappy blanket. 


When I was younger, in 8th grade, I taught myself how to crochet. I went out to the store and got the little kit that says, "I taught myself to crochet" and I did just that. 


This blanket is made from Lion Brand Homespun Baby Yarn that was discontinued back in 2000. 


I was in Maine visiting my pappy and my grammy, and my pappy's dad was visiting (aka  Great grand-pappy). He gave all of us grandchildren some money to find something to pre-occupy our time with while we were visiting. 


My mom and I took a trip to Bangor where there was a Joann's Fabrics. I walked through the front door and I saw that this yarn was on clearance. Now anyone knows that Lion Brand Yarn can be pretty expensive, so I was pretty excited that I paid $2.50 for each skein of yarn I bought. I bought a total of 15 skeins, for that is what was all that was left of this color yarn. It was so soft, and  I could not wait to make this blanket. 


All through high school, I worked on this blanket. I finally finished it before Great grand-pappy died before I graduated. It was one of my biggest accomplishments for high school, along with all of the other extra- curricular activities that I was joined it. 


Any who, here is a picture of it with my little fur ball Friskie. He loves this blanket and will not let any of the other cats lay on it. I guess you can say old age has to do with it since he is like 14 years old. 


Hope you enjoy! :)

The Green Meadow Blanket.

I found this pattern on www.bernat.com. I call it the Green Meadow Blanket because the pattern of greens that are used in this blanket. On Bernat, it is called "Spring- Lacy Ripples". 

The colors called for in this pattern are: Banana, Silk, Fern, and Soft Fern. I am really not a banana fan, so I used just silk, fern, and soft fern. 

I also added an edging on this because I was having difficulty hiding the end pieces of string when changing colors. 

I gave this blanket as a gift for Christmas to my boyfriend's parents. His dad really enjoyed it because he fell asleep on the couch with it. 

This is the simple edging that I put on it to cover all the sides and make it look neater. 

If you want this patter, go to Bernat.com and look for it. It is a nice simple pattern that took me about a month all together to complete on down time. Hope you enjoy! :)

My First Complete X-Large Blanket.

So this is my first complete X-Large Blanket. This was my boyfriend, Matt's, birthday present/ Christmas present. My boyfriend is very tall and has a wide arm span, and he wanted something that would cover his bed while he was away at college, or just something to curl up in.  It took my several attempts to do it, but if finally got done. So now I am just getting to the point of posting it. 


This blanket consists of three different colors done by Lion Brand Homespun Yarn, Key Lime Green, Colonal Blue, and Black. 


The Pattern that I have used is a simple ripple pattern since he is a Marine Biologist and loves the water. So this is his blanket. So I hope you enjoy it! :)