Crochet Along: Finished Blanket Photos

[mdmfoo]

Thank you, it was fun and easy.

[Shandeh]

i hav a question, How do I post a pic and how can I comment on certain pics. thanks.

Here's the Photo Tutorial: viewtopic.php?f=191&t=1181
If you want to comment on other people's posts, just click "Quote" on their post.

[Shandeh]

Enjoy a good Mystery. This was fun here's my finished blanket.
Kathook

Interesting colors! Reminds me of the Southwestern US

[Shandeh]

Thank you Shandeh, Thanks for reading my long story..... Yes, dear boyfriend is very supportive! Daughter is enjoying Mom time. It brings us together in a warm, nurturing, domestic way. Thank you for creating this event for all of us!!! Azim

I'm grateful to Bernat for creating this wonderful forum for us!
Last time we did a mystery blanket, we had to post comments at the bottom of blog posts, so there were no categories. All the comments were a big mish mash, and hard to follow.

[Shandeh]

Here is my finished afghan! After I took the picture and picked the afghan back up, I realized that I didn't have it laying completely straight, so please excuse the wrinkles!

Many thanks to tjwjlove, whose layout I "borrowed". I used Border #8 from Edie Eckman's Around the Corner Crochet Borders, which I had just recently purchased. The base single crochet round is Gypsy Gold, and the border round is my main color, Tibetan Red. I really love the red and gold together.

Link to my project page on Ravelry with more pictures and comments about the process: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/g120luvs2crochet/waverly-for-bernat-mystery-cal-2012

Edited to make my picture show up! Finally!!!!

Beautiful work! Regal coloring!

[Shandeh]

Here's what my afghan looks like. I stayed with the Bernat official layout. However, I was tempted to stray to a couple of the gorgeous alternate layouts posted. For the border I used colour D. I made a slight change with clue #6 to give it a more fuller look and am very pleased with it :0)

Even though the photo is dark, I can still that you created a lovely afghan!

[Shandeh]

CAL2012.JPG

I finally finished my blanket after much frogging! I tried several layouts and while I absolutely loved the official layout, it just wasn't going to work in our den as it is my husbands domain. I'll use this as a lap blanket while we are watching tv, etc. I'm surprised that mine seems to be the only one with this layout, but maybe that's not a good thing?? I also wanted a more masculine border, so did my version of fringe. I really enjoy the CAL's, this is my second one, and can't wait for another. Jennifer

I love your original layout! Very nice symmetry!

[Shandeh]

I finally made the time this weekend to take pictures of my project. This has been so much fun but posting these photos really brings it to an end. This was only my 3rd crochet project but with the step by step guides and all of you very helpful bloggers, I was able to finish!
I was excited to see the flower pattern because my inspiration was a flowered coverlet. It was too perfect! The SC boarder in the MC didn’t work for me so I pulled it out and changed the colors to match the pieces I was surrounding. I did the first SC in the back loop but when around the second time with a SC in the center of the stitch (not sure the technical terms for that). I am really happy with the 1” boarder it created. Thank you to Bernat for putting this together and to all of you for your help and support!!

Nice work! So feminine and lovely!

[Patty]

CAL2012.JPG

I finally finished my blanket after much frogging! I tried several layouts and while I absolutely loved the official layout, it just wasn't going to work in our den as it is my husbands domain. I'll use this as a lap blanket while we are watching tv, etc. I'm surprised that mine seems to be the only one with this layout, but maybe that's not a good thing?? I also wanted a more masculine border, so did my version of fringe. I really enjoy the CAL's, this is my second one, and can't wait for another. Jennifer

I like this layout! Perfect way to make these motifs more masculine

[Patty]

Are you having problems with the layout or the stitching method?

The layout!, and I am an experienced crocheted!

I copied the layout "ambivalent" posted during the week of "guess what it is going to look like," but any would do and there are tons of new layouts on the "finished blanket forum" now. I tried multiple layouts on a double bed until I settled on Ambivalent's.

After I got it the way I wanted, I used short pieces of of yarn to tie the pieces together at the corners. Some people use safety pins but I have had a problem with them getting caught in the yarn. I tied at the corners so it was not difficult to locate them later. I moved the "tied-together" afghan to the diningroom table, rolled one side of it so I could work on seaming the other side; as the seaming progressed, I rolled the seamed side also and worked in the middle. I cannot do something like this on my lap.

I used the method of seaming from the Bernat 2010 CAL and it really doesn't show. If I had it to do again, I would probably just use my main color and not try to match yarn colors to what I was seaming since it does not show.

I am not sure if this is going to help you any but hope so. Good luck and post again if I might be of any more help.

Very well explaination of how to seam a large project like this one.