Crochet-Along Week 7: Blanket Possibilities

[gaby]

gaby,

Don't know if this suggestion is too late, but if a couple of your motifs are too little, could you not just do another row around it in single or double crochet, whichever would get it up to size?
That is, if you have a little bit more thread in those colors. Just an idea.... I also liked another person's idea about a matching pillow, but I see you don't have that much yarn left!

Good luck to you.

Beth

Hello Beth,

I do have extra yarn, and I might do what you suggested. I moved to the other clues.

Thanks

[Verndolly]

Ok, I lied. One more. I'm glad they're going to show us the pattern tomorrow or I'd probably be doing this tomorrow too.

Where did you hear they are showing us the pattern, I am excited if true did it say when?

[Laina]

Where did you hear they are showing us the pattern, I am excited if true did it say when?

You know, I tried to find where I read that and now I can't find it so maybe I dreamed it. Sorry. As I think about it , it's probably to early to do that. I think I'll go hide under a chair.

Laina
OK I found it and it's next week that we find out what the official layout will be.

[labrige]

Where did you hear they are showing us the pattern, I am excited if true did it say when?

You know, I tried to find where I read that and now I can't find it so maybe I dreamed it. Sorry. As I think about it , it's probably to early to do that. I think I'll go hide under a chair.

Laina

Sure, Laina, you dreamed !!!
Your possibilities are fantastic ! I do like them ....

[Jcrochet]

Thanks, Zanie and Shandeh for the photo comment.

Before I begin blocking, I thought I'd play with my puzzle again. Can't tell you how many times I've rearranged. It's been fun! Missed taking pictures of most.

So here's my last try. hee hee I like this one much better and it uses all of the motifs this time.

Laina

Laina, that is really nice!! I like your lay-out

[yarnover]

Maybe it isn't an exact rectangle but still thinking. Might try with the computer because I used Bernat Super Saver instead of the Waverly so I don't want to post pictures. It is the three single color B C and D throwing me off. Yikes. Love a puzzle though.

even though you did not use waverly, we want to see it!! I am sure they do not care, many have used other yarn

I will give it a shot when I get home tonight. Somehow I keep coming up one square motif short. But maybe someone can puzzle it out.

[dsegel]

Ok, I lied. One more.

Laina,

I like all your ideas. You are right, they are similar to mine. I like the idea of something more symetrical than the diagonal possibilities.

You have two different blues, don't you? For a minute there, I panicked. I thought, I don't have eight of one color and four of another (besides the main color). Then I realized you must have two shades of blue. Some of your layouts look a lot different when you consider four very different colors.

[lambdamuepsilon]

Oh wow! I think we used nearly the same colors! What are the names of yours? I have bark as my main; porcelin red, bitter rose, willow and sundrift.

I used sundrift as my main with pink suede, porcelain red, incense and willow (as D). So yes, nearly the same!

[nankaeia]

I like this layout. Used colours to approximate the ones I used. Not sure how I would arrange all of the different motifs we made with MC.

I keep stealing everyone's ideas to see how they look in my colour choices so this one is no exception.

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I love the colour arrangement. But the motifs themselves, as they are, are just not working right for me. The pink one (clue 6) is just too lacy here to be grouped this way. It would make a 'weak' point in the finished afghan in my opinion. With another motif design I think this arrangement would be wonderful. So maybe if I don't like the official one I will do this for my second CAL afghan. My first will be official all the way. My second one has no lacy motifs, I replaced the two lacy ones with other designs.

My daughter thinks the centers should be different colors.

[Laina]

Ok, I lied. One more.

Laina,

I like all your ideas. You are right, they are similar to mine. I like the idea of something more symetrical than the diagonal possibilities.

You have two different blues, don't you? For a minute there, I panicked. I thought, I don't have eight of one color and four of another (besides the main color). Then I realized you must have two shades of blue. Some of your layouts look a lot different when you consider four very different colors.

Hi dsegel,

Just curious, but are you a Donna or a Diane maybe?

Yes, I have two shades of blue. Actually when I bought my yarn, the CAL had already begun. I really didn't know how to choose the colors. With what I had read and saw, I thought we had to choose from color categories.

So I chose from Town and Country. I didn't know we could choose from any of the yarn until later. I was in a hurry so I could get started and not get behind. Having never done a CAL before, I didn't know what to expect. Now that I'm doing the CAL, I see that I was overly concerned about hurrying. Hee hee!

So in saying all of that, if I were to do another, I will take my time to choose color. Some have a natural gift for choosing color. I have to go at it a little slower than others.

I think too, it helps to see yarn color in person. For instance, the cadet blue is lighter than I thought and the same goes for the antique. It's much lighter than it looks online. So when it comes to choosing yarn for a project such as this, I think I would find a comparable yarn locally because of all the colors.

Then I could hold them up to each other and see if it will work. I can also take the yarn back if I buy it locally if I don't think the colors are right or if they don't match what I want it to go with.

So this has been a great and wonderful experience and I'm learning so much and I'm so grateful to be able to participate in this CAL. It's fun and there are so many wonderful people here. I've done some new stitches, techniques, learned some great tips. It's just been a fantastic experience!

What colors have you chosen?

Laina