Penny's Notebook

Literary Fragments Blanket

Four motifs of literary fragments blanket joined and laying on a tuxedo cat. The fifth motif is in progress. The cat is asleep on her person’s lap which I’d covered by a granny hexagon blanket.
Project Info
  • Pattern — vintage bauble blanket by Sandra Eng
  • Project Type — Blanket
  • Project started — 2023-03-02
  • Project completed —
  • Worked with — 3.75mm hook
  • Yarn(s) — 4ply/sock yarn scraps

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We have a new love seat in our library room. I have bins of small fingering weight scraps. Like quotes I’ve added to my commonplace book, at first glance it may seem nothing is cohesive. Hopefully the grey will help.

Current motif are 8cm each. This is a bit smaller than I was planning so I may adjust the design a little because current math by desired size would mean making 400 motifs and that is … overwhelming as motifs, but not as pages of a book. Hmmm.

Current new plan (as of July 2023) is to join in 9-patch squares and figuring out the longer term joining plan later.


Project Log

  • sluggish progress with a new plan

    After working on this in small fits and starts and misplacing a bag with about a dozen round one centers completed, I posted to social media about the project and as I was coming up with the caption realized there was a better way to join. Instead of joining across and making one huge blanket…

  • making motif changes

    For Rnd 4: Instead of (sc, sp in 3-dc cluster, sc). Working (sc, fpdc around 3-dc cluster, sc). Of course I make the decision after I weave in the ends of the first cornerstone motif! Joined first 5 motifs — 3 across, 2 of next row.

  • slowly progress

    It helps to work on the project to make progress. I worked the first round for another 5 motifs and one more is ready for its final rounds. Need to decide if I’ll be more likely to finish (eventually) by working the fourth round on all pieces, breaking and weaving in now or not. JAYG…

Gallery

crochet motif next to yellow measuring tape showing approximately 8cm in widith
crochet motif in progress. on round 4.
several crochet motifs and balls of yarn messy piles on a birch desk with a computer keyboard
stack of motifs for the bauble crochet blanket on a black background. in the foreground are six centers. theyu are a range of colors but only the top motif is fully visible, it has a brown center, teal second round, and a multi of gold-blues-reds for the third round. the centers are purple: lime green, brown, mostly ecru, rose pink, and a light green. the yarn ends are not woven in.
Four motifs of literary fragments blanket joined and laying on a tuxedo cat. The fifth motif is in progress. The cat is asleep on her person’s lap which I’d covered by a granny hexagon blanket.
Motifs on a light color wooden desk. The first three motifs are joined with grey yarn. The fourth is being worked and shown with the crochet hook in progress.

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