Warning: The following entries are about crochet and have no knitting content what-so-ever. Thank you for your understanding. :)
A friend of mine gave me a family blanket to fix because it had "dropped a stitch". The thing that confused me was that she said it was a crochet blanket. Crochet does not drop stitches.
On examination I found the drop stitches to be chain ladders in between double crochets. I had never seen this pattern before and after fixing my friend's blanket, I had to try to make one of my own.
The result is this weekend's entry. I have left one drop ladder so you could see what I was talking about before I finished it into a neat braid. Also, the original pattern had tied the braid at the end but that is why it unraveled. I chose to weave the last chain through the finished braid thus holding it for all time.
I really enjoyed this blanket and I think I will make another. It crochets up very fast because of all the chains.
Thank you again for your understanding. Hopefully, my next post will be on some knitting. :)
4 comments:
OMG! That is the crochet pattern my Grandma used to make all the time! She found it in a magazine waaaaay before I was born.
It is a fun pattern..I got to finish her last one right after she died..
Thanks for the post! Grams died just over a year ago & I really miss her. Nice to have an out of the blue reminder of her! :)
Kim
Beautiful! Looks fairly easy too!
Great Job!
Ruinwen what a beautiful blanket! I don't crochet (well, at least) but that makes me want to reconsider! You should be very proud!
Oooh, I like the rainbow blanket! Cool stuff. Someday I gotta make me a big old blanket. With a very large needle so it crochets up fast, and isn't unbearably dense and heavy. The yarn I have in mind will lend itself to that sort of thing...
But--yikes! Still haven't worked on your dishcloth. But if I didn't write the pattern down, I can probably figure it out again.
Anyway. Babbling. Will stop now.
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