January 13th, 2011 
mio This past week I’ve been suffering from what seems to be my very first migraine.
Of course, my first instinct in a situation like this (or, to be fair, in ANY situation) is to crochet.
There’s a common expression that states that the fastest way to get rid of an illness is to give it to someone else, and so this is what I made:
It might be hard to see that the pattern is a sprial in that picture, so here’s a close-up of the middle:
How’s your head?
Honestly, I don’t believe that expression for a minute. I mean, it’s pretty ridiculous, right?
Back to the blanket! I used the pattern here: Pamapaloza: Spiral Hex, with 3 full balls of Bernat Satin “Florals” (variegated), and in the solid Bernat Satin in “Sultana”, I used 2 full balls, and the yarn barf from the third (maybe 1/3 of the ball? or 1/4?), and a 5mm hook. It’s 3′ across from side to side.
I did the ending differently from the original. Several stitches away from a corner, with the variegated, I switched to hdc stitches, did a bunch of those, then switched to sc and worked almost to the corner. On the last stitch before the corner, I did a slip stitch, then another into the corner space. With the solid, I did double crochets over the hdc’s, then hdc into the sc’s, then sc up to and into the corner, then finished off.
This was a really neat pattern to do, and there was no cutting the yarn invovled (well, I lie, I did cut the yarn once when the solid got tangled up in a secondary yarn barf and I was too sick to deal with it), and the end weaving was really just at the beginning and ends of the balls.
I’m definitely going to have to make another one of these!
Where did I come across this pattern? In the 11 Blankets for 2011 thread in the Crochet Liberation Front’s Ravelry group (you need to be logged in to see it).
How’s your head now?
But like I said, I don’t really believe there’s any truth to that expression… but it is suspicious that I saw that blanket for the first time only a couple of days before my migraine hit.
Very suspicious indeed…
How’s your head? I’ll ask you again in a couple of days…
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