Weekly Dose of Crafts!

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Last week I made a bunch of swatches based on Attic24's tutorials, one being the Granny Stripe Blanket. I decided to start the actual blanket last Wednesday afternoon, so the below pictures show a week's worth of work. It's taking so long because I decided to start with a chain of 240 like the pattern maker Lucy did. I might even use it as a winter bedspread when I'm done!


So Wednesday afternoon I went out and bought a stash of yarn to get going on the blanket. I visited both Joann's and Michael's to get just the right colors. I based it on what Lucy had used as much as i could. I ended up picking up another skein on Sunday which isn't pictured and I actually realized last night I got the wrong pink but oh well, live in learn.

Vania’s Choice Baby:
Duckie
Pink Poodle
Sweet Pea
Bluebell
Mint
Goldfish
Cheery Cherry
Berrylicious
Little Boy Blue
Aqua

Vania’s Choice:
Silver Blue
Dusty Rose (not pictured- should have bought Pink!)

Loops and Threads: Impeccable:
Grape
Lavender
Aqua

Red Heart: Soft Baby Steps
Lavender

I'm currently working on my second stripe of each color. I'm definitely going to be needing more yarn, the question is how many more skeins of each. It seems I will be able to get almost three stripes for each color out of a skein but since I'm new to this I'm just going to buy a new round as I go. Even though this is considered cheap yarn since it's so large buying just the first 16 skeins was like $50. This is going to be an expensive blanket.


Sunday I also picked up a Yarn Tainer seen below. Not only does it help keep the yarn clean which I kept rolling onto the floor, if you pull from the middle it keeps it coming instead of having to stop and unravel more yarn every 10 minutes and risking tangles.


I've also started making some more granny square middles in hopes of making Lucy's Summer Garden Granny Square blanket at some point. This is the yarn I'm using, 95% yarn I already had!

Vanna’s Choice:
Wild Berry
Pink
Silver Blue
Dusty Blue
Mustard

Vanna’s Choice: Baby:
Pink Poodle

Loops and Threads: Impeccable:
Aqua
Grass
Rogue

Caron: Simply Soft:
Rubine Red

Red Heart: Soft Yarn:
Guacamole

And finally, yesterday I got an Amazon order that included 2 craft books I really wanted! Zombie Felties which I guess is a somewhat follow-up to Felties (it's designed in exactly the same way) but with different authors. I wonder about the different authors thing, did the original author not want to do Zombies? And then Happy Hooker which I've had my eye on for awhile!

Happy Crafting!