Crochet Along: Finished Blanket Photos

[Kodikins]

Finally finished mine today!!!

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My photography skills are not the best, but I hope you can see the final design I chose is an octogon. From the moment I started playing around with layout options, my motifs were screaming, "We want to be an octogon!!" With the new skills and confidence I gained from this adventure I was able to make half-granny triangles and created trapezoids to fill the spaces needed to make the outside borders.

Thanks to Bernat, the admins, Shandeh, and all those who participated in the forum. Your help and expertise were amazing.

Nice job! I love the layout you chose; your creativity really shows in this one.

[Kodikins]

Thanks, Kodikins. When our son moved out of our house, I painted his room a light blue and hung drapes with bright green leaves and bright yellow and orange flowers and butterflies. I really like the blue and green together. The bedspread, comforter and pillow shams are all patterned with that shade of green.That is the room where I now have my computer so I spend time here. I also like to buy yarn from the store instead of online so I can group the skeins in the basket to see how they will look.

Did I miss your finished blanket photo or have you not posted yet?

Your room sounds so inviting! I haven't finished my blanket yet; I still have two more clues to complete before I can start seaming it together. It doesn't help that I've frogged several octagons because I either run out of yarn with only five stitches left to the pattern, or it just doesn't come out to the right size and I have to do it again with a larger hook. Also, when the final layout was posted, I swapped my color choices around. Hopefully I will have enough done to start seaming this weekend.

[Kodikins]

Finally finished mine! I had a hard time deciding on a border so I kind of created my own.

Nice job! I love your color choices; and the border you made gives it such a nice finishing touch.

[JLoriR]

Love all the great photos of completed afghans. I will finish my seaming tonight and hope to get the border done this weekend.

[donnajea]

Yarn - TLC black - Bernat Satin Aqua - Bernat Satin Lavender - Red Heart Boutique - Mosaic - Sensations Rainbow - green - I stayed with the original designs on both afghans. They turned out like stained glass. Art deco. I am very happy with the results.

very pretty

[JerseyNette]

This is how I did my border:

Thanks for sharing Lialab! I can't wait to start on this border! "shhh" I still haven't seamed it together yet

[Tiffanna]

Finally finished seaming and started my border last night. I really hope I can post a photo of my finished afghan by the end of the weekend. Of course, that assumes I'll have the time to finish the border so I guess we'll see..

[Jen]

I'm loving all these finished afghan images! If you're not done yet, keep it up, there's still time.

And keep nominating folks for awards!

[Azim]

Hi, Thanks to all for sharing. It's been a real pleasure reading the posts and seeing all the beautiful afghans. I don't know how you guys and gals find the time for all the posting (with all the crocheting going on!) but I am oh-so-glad you do! So maybe I'll share a bit too. My daughter and I started this together. This crochet project is her first. I last made a crocheted afghan 30 years ago. So both of us learned and relearned together. Off we went to Michaels for yarn shopping. She was very excited. Sadly our 3 local Michaels did not have sufficient quantities of compatible Bernat yarns in colors that I liked, so I picked out an organic cotton yarn in four neutral shades that I loved. My daughter went straight to the Bernat pastels and was in hog heaven! She loved the weekly clues and has learned lots of stitches. She is about 1/4 done, but considering her available time, she is doing well. She remains excited and loves to see how others are doing. As for me, I too, loved the clues and spoilers! Thanks! As I was laying out the finished pieces as suggested, I kept moving and rearranging them until they were a completely different "animal". I realized that I wanted something bigger so back to Michaels for more yarn and many more long nights of crocheting!!! I used "clue 1" pieces around the edges but I wanted a curvy border so I made some changes. Now they look like tear drops. The other clues are as suggested except - no "clue 4". I made "clue 4" in a variegated yarn that I ordered online, but I did not like the way it looked with the other yarn shades. 4 skeins wasted for now. I spent lots of time fussing with the layout. Then more time fussing with the border. There were many floppy parts around the outside, and I wanted the whole thing to look planned with a smooth edge. "Clue 8" gave the outside edge a uniform number of stitches. From that clue we then had the ability to create any kind of border. I went back to "clue 3" and used the stitch combo I learned from "row 5" to stabilize the floppy pieces. Also, I think it looks balanced to repeat a design used from one of the octagons on the border. My only regret is that I wanted a muted grape or rust as the 5th color. Sigh.....I am pleased however with the finished afghan. Wednesday my very proud boyfriend took the finished afghan to work to show it off. Got lots of good "strokes". Daughter and I had a ton of fun and want to thank Bernat for hosting this and all the posting crocheters for sharing so generously all your ideas and life events during this Mystery Tour. (This is my solution regarding cat fur. I have always had a furry cat in my life. I think of it as angora. So to those with angora afghans, you are not alone! Enjoy!) I know this is long but I want to share our fun time with you and now my fingers are busy on a knitted afghan. Bernat, see what you started! LOL! Now I going to attempt to attach the pictures. Reached max so will send in batches.

[Azim]

Gallery .... continued..... Azim