Royal Icing blanket

 

I fell in love with the colors for this blanket when I saw them on the Deramores website. Deramores is a UK based yarn distributor that I ordered most of my DK yarn from.  Very few places here in the US (at least around me) offer a decent selection of DK yarn.  And if they do, its very expensive and very few colors. 

 

Deramores is very reasonably priced and offers lots of selection on these yarns.  Plus, when I spend $50, they offer free shipping!  I usually get the shipment within 10 days of ordering the yarn, too, which is a big plus since it's coming from the UK.

 

Deramores recently came out with their own yarn line, so naturally I had to try it!  I fell in love with these colors when they placed them all in a color pack.  I didn't buy the color pack itself, but individually because the pack was specifically for another project and I didn't need as much yarn as they wanted to sell me.

 

 

 

 

The colors are from the Deramores Studeio DK line and they are fuschia, frost, blue velvet and peony.  I had this pattern in my queue for a long time, waiting for the perfect yarn to use it on and I had finally found some.  The pattern is from The Felted Button and it's called Royal Icing.  It's a paid pattern, but her patterns are worth the small price she charges for them. They are very detailed and have lots of pictures in them.  I am never disappointed with any of her patterns that I have bought and/or tried. 

 

 

For this particular blanket, I used about 1.5 balls of each color to complete the blanket.  I had to get a third ball of the fuschia for the boarder, but I barely used any of it.  I don't remember if I used her boarder pattern or not, but I did (I think) 6 rows of hdc's followed by a crab stitch for the last row.

 

 

I wish I could tell you what the finished size is, but I don't remember.  Maybe one day I'll update this post with the finished size.  I used a 4.5mm hook for the foundation chain, a 4mm hook for the body of the blanket, and a 3.75mm for the boarder.  I do this smaller hook progression on all of my blankets and it works really well for my tension.

 

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Courtney

Little Mermaid inspired blanket

I had these colors that got thrown together and I kept looking at them thinking that they reminded me of something.  Then it finally hit me.  The Little Mermaid. 

    

I have had these colors sitting in the garage for about a year now, just waiting for me to make something out of them.  I was conflicted though since I didn't have a whole lot of any of the colors so I had to be careful with what I made.  I wanted to make a ripple blanket with them, but there wouldn't be enough for that.

Then I came across a picture on Instagram of this pattern.  I've made this pattern before and I distinctly remember not liking it, but it seemed like the only thing that was going to accommodate a blanket with what little yarn I had.

Once again, I wish I could tell you what yarns these are specifically, but I can't with certainty. The first color, the reddish one, is a Scheepjes Color Crafter color. The teal and purple, I believe, are Stylecraft Special DK in aspen and something.  And the pink is Stylecraft Life in ...

Hopefully that helps! lol. 

I used a 4mm hook throughout and worked off the free pattern by Celeste Young.  It came out to a cute 36" across from point to point.  I worked this one up very quickly for me and finished it within a couple days.  I'm very happy with it and I hope that someone else will be just as happy with it. 

 

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Courtney

Deadpool Blanket

I started this blanket a long time ago...just under a year ago!  I wanted to make something for my fiancée's birthday that he would actually use and this is what I came up with.  His favorite comic book character is Deadpool and, at the time I was looking, the c2c graphgans were all the rage.

I had never even attempted a graphgan, let alone a c2c graphgan.  I had made a regular c2c blanket before but that was it.  I found the graph on Pinterest.  It was super easy to find.

Most of the yarn I used was Hobby Lobby's I Love This Yarn, but I couldn't tell you what the color titles are.  I used a 5.5mm hook throughout. It came out to around 45" square.  It took forever to finish because I was trying to only work on it when he wasn't home, then we moved, then I lost interest.  It took a lot of work and lots of color changes, especially in the face area.

I finally finished it right after Christmas and he was very excited to get it.  It now sits on our couch and gets very good use. 

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xo,

Courtney