Tuesday 1 May 2012

And finally ...

... the complete 2012 blanket. Here's one quarter. This is made up of squares of different sizes and rectangles with a turquoise, blue and white border.


The next quarter is a log cabin pattern starting with a square and continuing round with rectangles, again surrounded with a border. I really enjoyed doing the rectangles - very stress relieving.


The next quarter is the odds and sods quarter. There are various experimental squares. Can you spot the granny spiral, circular centres and the moving corner square?


The last quarter was the hardest to put together as it contains odd shaped grannies plus rectangles and squares.


The centre of the blanket is a large square with a centre of equilateral triangles. I've shown you this before in an earlier post.


Around the edge of the whole blanket are granny rhombi. I didn't intersperse these with triangles as I was rapidly running out of wool. Here's the blanket draped over our couch and foot stools in the sun room.


You can see the edging a bit better now.


 It really is rather large and easily fits over a double bed.


To see the story of the blanket just click on the 2012 blanket label.


20 comments:

  1. Oh WOW! That is perfectly wonderful!
    Julie xxxxxxx

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  2. Wow - what an amazing piece of work! Well done for finishing it - it looks fantastic!
    Liz @ Shortbread & Ginger

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  3. Simply wonderful!! You are so clever! xx

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  4. It's fantastic. The colours are perfect. Well done you. xx

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  5. Wow! What an achievement! You must have so much patience, sewing that together with all the different shapes and sizes. I grit my teeth and swear under my breath sewing a few squares together!
    A future family heirloom! Well done, you.
    xx

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  6. Thats wonderful! Im off for a sneaky afternoon nap shortly and would loves to be snuggled up for it in that! Well done it looks fab! x

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  7. That's fabulous, I love the colours.

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  8. WOW! I'm always so very impressed with people who can do this sort of thing.
    Jane x

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  9. That finished blanket looks absolutely stunning!! It is wonderful to see how it has all come together, the colours are so fabulous!

    AMAZING!! You are indeed very clever!

    Arwedd xx

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  10. That's so lovely. I think I may have a go at the idea of different sized squares for one of my future projects. I don't think I have the crochet knowledge to do all the odd shapes. It's very clever! Jan

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  11. I love it-the colors are beautiful and it has almost a mosaic feel to it! Well done!

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  12. Now that is fantastic!!! there will never ever be one the same,how amazing is that!you deserve the YAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! for the day,honestly it is just so striking,i do hope you are pleased with yourself.

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  13. My goodness, that's amazing. You've got some patience to do that. The colours are lovely.

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  14. WOW WOW WOW mum that is amazing i love all the different style shapes it adds so much depth and texture and those colours are wonderful. You should be really proud its gorgeous. dee xx

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  15. What a mammoth project, all worthwhile though because its WONDERFUL. Fabulous colours and like someone else said almost like a mosaic. How long did it take?

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  16. That is lovely, such vibrant colours, and so unusual with all the different shapes. Well done you, a great achievement.

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  17. Oh I love that ! well done.
    It will inspire me to get started on one, one square at a time of course.
    I love the different shapes you have incorporated in it.

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  18. It's really really gorgeous - I love it! Surely you're more keen on blues now? I'd love one to fit over my double bed, but think I'll aim for toddler bed to start off with!
    You must be so pleased with it, the 'no design' design is great x

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Thank you for your comments. it's always exciting reading them.