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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.

Pattern Info:

  • Pattern inspiration: Vintage Bauble Blanket by Sandra Eng
  • Project Type: Blanket
  • Project Started: 2023-03-02
  • Hook/Needle: 4.5mm hook 3.75mm hook
  • Yarn(s): 4ply/sock yarn scraps held doubled, maybe some dk weights

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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.

Current new plan (as of January 2024) is to work the motifs with a 4.5mm hook and the fingering weights held doubled.


Project Log

  • snow progress

    A forecast of snow combined with stress over the release of Romi, Doron, and Emily led me to work on the double motifs. Tonight I joined the first nine. I know Dot likes this project because she kept trying to steal it off my lap. When I placed it on her for a quick photo,…

  • record scratch

    If you look closely at the motif crocheted the other day you’ll notice another one of my crochet defaults. I made it entirely in hdc. That’s why it’s only marginally larger than the fingering weight motif! When worked with a 4.5mm hook and dc, per the motif design … it measures approximately 10 cm across.…

  • a new plan, again

    While working on the puzzle blanket, I began to feel very much in love with the heavier (for me) weight dk yarn. I wondered what it would be to crochet the motifs for this blanket that I’ve been ignoring. So I swatched. And I fell in love with my new swatch. It’s not much bigger,…

  • 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.

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.
crochet motif in green, blues, aqua and purple in progress.
completed crochet motif shown on an anise colored notebook
completed crochet motif shown on a white background next to some of a 9-patch of the original sized fingering weight crochet motifs.
completed crochet motif in dc and hdc shown on a light wooden background next to some of a 9-patch of the original sized fingering weight crochet motifs.
completed crochet motif in dc and hdc shown on a light wooden background on top of a 9-patch of the original sized fingering weight crochet motifs.
completed crochet motif in dc shown on a light wooden background next to some of a 9-patch of the original sized fingering weight crochet motifs.
completed crochet motif in dc and hdc shown on a light wooden background

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