Blanket #9: Blue and white stripes

blanket9-detail Still using up leftover yarns, I decided to get a little clever on this one. I started from the middle, and worked outward. That way, I knew that the finished blanket would have some symmetry :-). This one was done before the summer hat (and is where I got the idea to crochet between stitches instead of in them), but I didn’t get around to taking photos until now. And, the semi-obligatory link to my original Project Linus post.

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The stripes in the main part are kind of hard to see in these pictures, but if you look closely at the detail one they do show up.

Finished size: 36″x36″

Yarns: Main section light blue: Coats & Clark Red Heart Pompadour 3-ply, 84% Orlon/16% Rayon, color I33 Blue (white yarn with a blue “sparkle”)
Main section white: Super Yarn Mart, Twinkle Yarn, 3 ply, 50% Nylon, 50% Acrylic, color 200 Snow White 96 51

Outer stripes: not all the yarn was identifiable, but the ones I know are:
* Red Heart® Sport, Art. E289; 819 blue jewel
* Mary Maxim Mellowspun, Color 2776 116 03 (Med. Denim; Dark Slate Blue?), 2763 132 (Copen; Slate Blue?), and one with no wrapper to get #s from (Light Slate Blue?). The color numbers on my yarn don’t match the ones on the site (probably because the ones on the site say “New Softer”), so I’m guessing at the current name equivalents.

Crochet Hook Size G

Pattern: The basis of this was the Versatile Crib Afghan pattern, but as mentioned I started from the middle. Basically, I worked rows 1 and 2 as given, then ended off and worked row 3 in the “bottom” of row 1 (so that row 1 ended up between rows 2 and 3). Then I alternated sides, working in stripes of the blue Pompadour and the white Twinkle, until I ran out of those and started using up other yarn. I finished with a border of single crochet.

I worked the ends in as I went, but you could also make the ends long enough to form fringe and leave them. Obviously, you wouldn’t work a border in this case ;-).

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