I’ve just finished the biggest item I’ve ever crocheted, and
it’s a ‘real’ item: a baby blanket.
It’s taken a long time to get here. It seems like another lifetime when I was
making, failing and re-making my cream squares for the crochet-a-long. Where would it end?
After the squares and corners were all done, I next made the centre star. It was kind of like doing a gigantic
snowflake, working in the round, using easy granny stitches.
I was pleased with myself when I could increase the stitch
heights from dc, htr, tr to dtr just by knowing the stitches and without having
to check instructions.
It can get hot working with a large woolly item in your lap
in the summer. So I rested the work on
my homemade timber slab-stool, like a tray.
Even better, the stool is made with open slats so there is lots of
airflow. I sat many hours recovering
from the flu, watching the cricket and crocheting on my slab – bliss!
Finally I finished the star and next was sewing together –
another first for me.
I checked
different methods and went with this one.
I still don’t know whether it was the best choice, which is kind of
exciting because it means there is more to discover yet.
Completing with the victory border rounds was a relief – an end
in sight! When I made the big black granny, I took mum’s advice and added one more round of double crochet.
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This
was to dissolve a baffling mystery corner that was sticking out, and to ‘finish
off’ the edge.
So I did the same here
with a final border round of dc. You can
see the finish is much more solid than without.
So that, for me, was mammoth. The question is, will I ever make something
so ‘big’ again? I can’t even fathom a
bedspread.
