Carousel blanket

Started mid November, finished end of Jan 2019. My husband picked this one, out of a selection of blanket patterns I liked. He liked the vibrant colours. I liked the look of this, but it wasn’t the most fun to do, as it was a bit TOO repetitive. However, it looked great when finished.

First part was great 🙂

Next stage a bit boring! Especially crocheting them together!

The next stage was unusual – pentagons. Not known for their fantastic ability to tesselate… so they are IRREGULAR pentagons. I couldn’t use my normal method of doing round by round, partly due to the seemingly randomness of the colour scheme, but also because the last round crochets them together as you go!

So after pentagons, we got further IRREGULAR hexagons. Even though the colours seem random, I did give doing each round at a time a go:

And finally a border:

A friend commented that it was the one she liked most out of the blankets I had done, so I gave it to her as a birthday gift. I now need to make another, as my husband liked it too!! I do agree it looks fantastic!