Cosmic blanket

With Demelza finished on 28th July 2018, this was me on the 29th!!!

This one is also Stylecraft DK, some standard, and some batik elements (which cost a little bit more per ball, but still great value). I had come across the Cosmic blanket on one of the Facebook crochet groups I follow, and I joined the specific group for this blanket, which had been another Crochet a-long (CAL), which had finished. The group had lots of lovely pictures of finished blankets, so I was highly motivated to start mine! The designer, Helen Shrimpton, had 4 suggested colour schemes, and I took one and varied just a couple of the colours.

The pattern is still available for free here:
http://crystalsandcrochet.com/crochet/category/cosmic-cal/

The initial instructions are extremely helpful and there is a handy row by row colour guide, so you can figure out which rows you want to change colours on. There are also video guides for each part, which I referred to for a couple of complicated rows.

This differed massively from the previous blankets as it is crocheted in one. The rows get bigger and bigger!! And you need to count the stitches accurately or else!

Part 1 – grew fairly quickly…

Part 2 – making the hexagon into a rectangle. This was taken away on Summer hols!

Not sure on the parts now…this is probably 3 & 4

And it keeps growing:

And done. 3 months work – at the end of October.

This one was claimed by my daughter, as it goes with her room 🙂