So, I've been working on the blanket for 4 weeks now, but haven't done any crochet in the last week. Computer games stole my brain... >.<
Anyways, as of last Tuesday, I had done 60 squares, and this is how it looked:
The bottom row isn't sewn on in that picture, but I wanted to take advantage of the natural light while it lasted.
Now the hardest thing will be escaping the pull of WoW, and crocheting again!
So, today marks two weeks since I started on my son's Creeper blanket, and I thought I was doing pretty well. After all, I'd managed to go from this on the first day:
To this:
And finally to this:
It was originally supposed to be a 10 by 10 square creeper face to cover his bed, and so I intentionally made the squares about 7 inches across, so that it would cover his whole bed. The whole thing was going to be around about 165cm in each direction.
However....
My son has since decided that he wants the design changed, to accommodate his name as well... I have two choices. I can either scrap what I've done, (which is about 70 by 21 inches of blanket!), or work around what I've done and just add the name on once I've finished. I opted for the second option, and ran up a quick design on squared paper:
Unfortunately, the finished size of this design is about 231 x 297cm. My son only has a single bed, so this would drown it... Making the squares for his name a bit smaller I managed to shave off around half a meter in each direction, but the problem remains... His bed is 90 x 190cm... If I make the changes he wants, then he won't see them when it is spread on his bed.
He would know it was there I suppose... Maybe that is the point?
Well, I've not had much to do since being made redundant, so I taught myself to crochet. Hey - It's something, and all skills help at some point in life!!
My mum picked up the old dolls bedframe from a second hand shop for my niece. It was a nice little pink thing, but bare wood and not really very pretty, so I took it and said I'd spruce it up a little. Using only materials I had lying around in my craft collection and a £1.50 pillowcase from Wilko's, I managed to turn this:
Into this:
I even added curtains to it:
I'm pretty pleased with it overall, and the crochet blankets caused my son to turn around and ask for one of his own. So my long term project is now a 160cm*160cm crochet blanket, with a Creeper face on it (Minecraft - he's obsessed with that game!!)
I'll post pics as I work... :)
