Posts Tagged ‘afghan’

Year Of The Blanket

Happy Saturday!

I’m kicking off my 11 Blankets In 2011 with this planning post!

I’m aiming for 11 blankets, and this is my list so far:

1. Beyond The Square motif blanket (using this crochet-along)
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2. finish my second Eventually Granny Square blanket
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3. finish my Oddly Linked Chocolate blanket
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4. Retro Granny Square blanket
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5. a scrap blanket for charity, via my crochet guild

6. pi blanket… still in the planning stages


That’s all I’ve thought of at this point, but no doubt, something will come to me. ^_^ Expect more posts on this throughout the year.

Eventually Granny Square

I’ve added a new, free pattern, well, more of a recipe, really, to make a blanket like this one:

Eventually Granny Square blanket

You’ll find it under “Granny” at the top of this page, click here: http://fantasticmio.com/granny

I still haven’t figured out how to enable comments on the pattern pages, so feel free to leave them here instead. Especially let me know if you decide to try this pattern!

TTC Knit-Along 2010

Tonight is TTC Knit-Along Eve (I wonder if it’ll be as hard to sleep tonight as it is on Christmas Eve…).

What is it? Well, you sign up, are assigned a group, your group rides the TTC (knitting all the while, or possibly crocheting since I’ll be there ^_-) to four yarn shops, and all of the groups meet up at the end to compare purchases and get prizes. At least, that’s the description I’ve been given; this is my first year participating!

I will, of course, be blogging after the fact, to let you know how it went and show you what I bought! In the mean time, you can watch my Twitter feed (or the box over there on the right side of this page) for updates! I’m going to try to take pictures and tell interesting tidbits of stories throughout the day. You don’t need to sign up for Twitter in order to follow me tomorrow, just go to http://twitter.com/fantasticmio and possibly refresh the page as the day progresses, and you shouldn’t miss a thing!

Things kick off at 11am (Eastern)!

Until then, check out the progress on my “Eventually Granny Square” blanket:
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It just needs the border and then I’ll have an actual finished object to show off! This one is special in that I don’t know who it’s going to be for yet. Once I’m finished I’ll do up a pattern for those who want to try it at home. If you’re new-ish to crochet and are going to try this, I suggest you learn how to make a traditional Granny Square first. (I do 2ch in the corners, and no ch stitches anywhere else, but this pattern should work just fine with any pattern that has the Granny Square look to it… in fact, ANY square that has the “granny” border on it would work)

Anyhow, it’s not a hard pattern at all; the only part I had to figure out, really, was the valleys between the squares, and it’s actually pretty easy to do. ^_^