The Flower Garden blanket is finally finished. Yep, as of this morning. I am SO thrilled to have it finished and that it looks so beautiful. Wow! 713 hexagons, can you imagine! I can't give you amounts of wool or measurements (you can see how it looks on a standard double bed) but I have used 10 different colours for the flowers, with the middles making up the 11th colour. There are 50 flowers altogether (350 hexagons) with the remaining 363 hexagons being crocheted in white. I have just edged it with a row of single crochets. The worst part of the blanket was the blocking out and leaving them to dry over night, but it was worth the effort and made the sewing together much easier.
For my next project I have promised to make Edward a striped blanket, and I have suggested a ripple (my cunning plan because I have never made a ripple before). Emily is trying to persuade me to make her another blanket and she wants it to be like my Flower Garden. Not sure I can cope with more hexagons at the moment. Her colour scheme is to have all the flowers white with yellow middles like daisies and joined together with green hexagons like grass! We shall see :)
M x
Wow! I didn't realise it was so BIG! You should be so proud of yourself and deserve at least a huge cupcake as a reward. I really need to learn how to do this, but I am finding it confusing even watching You Tube videos. Any suggestions as to how to get started?
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