Relaxing crochet from yarn to WIP

Last week I told you about my new project, how I want to design a relaxing project, not too difficult, something you can do while watching TV. A TV-project I call it. I do believe I have designed just such a project using two Scheepjes Whirls from the Ombré collection.

Resources

• Morvan Blanket Pattern on Ravelry
• Morvan Blanket Pattern on It’s all in a Nutshell
• Morvan Blanket Pattern PDF
• Morvan Blanket Patroon (Nederlands)
• Scheepjes Whirl yarn

Yarn to WIP

I am using Citrus Squeeze (563) and Shrinking Violet (558) to make a linen stitch blanket. These two color are seriously contrasting colors because they are on oposing ends of the color wheel. I wanted my blanket to pop, and the best way to do that is to use colors that pop on the edge of them colliding.

Scheepjes Whirl is available from Wool Warehouse (UK/Int), Black Sheep Wools (UK/Int), Caro’s Atelier (EU/NL), Marlaine.nl (NL), and many other Scheepjes stockists world wide.

From yarn to WIP

I first work a row back and forth with citrus, change colors, and then work a row back and forth with violet. All I do is repeat, repeat, repeat. GREAT project for watching TV. With this pattern you can actually look at the screen and see what the characters look like! I notice that often I listen to the TV more than I actually watch the TV because I need to look at my work to prevent mistakes.

An added advantage of this project and the color changing yarn I am using is that I am taking the yarn up along the side of the blanket, meaning that there are no yarn tails to work away. I started at the lightest end of both of the ombré Whirls I am using, meaning that initially it looks a little bleak and washed out, but as the colors become darker, the blanket gets more and more character.

It goes so slowly, you hardly notice the color change, but if I fold the start of the blanket over the later parts you can clearly see the difference.

From WIP to Blanket

Fast forward a month or two in which I continue to work stripes, alternating the citrus and violet colors every two rows till the blanket is a square. At this point the blanket is ok, but not particularly special or interesting. I reached this point in the blanket when we were on holiday in the Morvan last year, a region in central France. I hung it over our balcony contemplating how to spice it up a bit.

Next week I show you the finished blanket and how I made this blanket from ok to really nice, even if I say so myself.

With love,
Esther

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