Posts Tagged ‘Settlers of Catan’

Tying up loose ends

June 13th, 2009 mio

Literally! All I’ve had to do on this latest baby blanket for the last week or so is to weave in a couple of ends. I finally did so today, and voila!

blue and yellow baby blanket

This was made using my standard round ripple pattern, though I didn’t have enough of either colour left to make the backwards-sc edging, so I did some slip stitches around instead. I just don’t like leaving those chains bare on the points!

I also finally got around to finishing the Settlers of Catan blanket:
Settlers of Catan blanket

I feel I must apologize for the indoor picture, but there just wasn’t any way to properly display this outside (which should make showing it at BOB interesting!)

At this point in the “prepping for BOB” game, I’m just finishing off projects I’ve started already, and not starting anything new. That means that we can expect to see one more baby blanket, a handful of pin cushions, and a couple more Tetris pieces. Depending on when I finish all of that, I *might* start another baby blanket; after all, I’m going to need SOMEthing to do while manning the table, right?

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If I wasn’t running out of time…

June 2nd, 2009 mio

… I would totally keep this blanket for myself!

I’ve got the Settlers of Catan blanket all joined together. At least, I thought I did, until I went to take this picture (which shows the colours beautifully) :

Settlers of Catan crocheted blanket
(well, ok, it’s not that shiny in person…)

It turns out I missed joining the sides of two of the water hexes together. I’ll get that sorted out quickly, though.

Here is a picture of it on a queen-sized bed:
Settlers of Catan crocheted blanket
It measures about 5′6″ at its longest, and just under 5′ at its shortest.

Questions:

I tried sewing the number 3 on one of the “disks” and didn’t like how it turned out at all. How would you do it?

Secondly, do you think it needs a border? I’m learning towards adding one, but am unsure of whether that should be a size-adding border (probably a round of dc) or just something to finish it off (maybe some backwards sc). I might need to buy more yarn if I decide to put a border on, but I’ll have to do some stash diving first to be sure.

What do you think?

P.S. This is intended for sale at Big On Bloor. Unless I just can’t bear to part with it. ^_-

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BOB’s your uncle

May 28th, 2009 mio

works in progress

Let’s see, we’ve got several water hexes for the Catan blanket, to the left of those is some over-exposed light-coloured yarns that make up the border colour for the Catan blanket and that yellow broomstick lace blanket. At the back is a blue and yellow round ripple blanket that would be absolutely stunning if I hadn’t run out of blue with less than 2 rounds left to go. In front of it is a blanket kit that I bought two Christmases ago; it has butterflies on it, or would, if I ever get around to making it. In front of that is an almost-finished blue and green blanket that, when finished, will hopefully have enough blue left over to finish the stunning blanket mentioned above.

Somewhere in there is some light blue yarn waiting for a pattern, and some purple yarn destined to be striped. (The bag of rainbow ripple yarn is on the floor, and thus not pictured.)

^_^

Speaking of looking for a pattern, here’s a fun link: Crochet Poet’s Pattern Collection.

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