Bright stripes blanket

Finally here it is, drum roll please…

I won’t say a lot about it but let the pictures speak for themselves (and be warned there are a quite a lot of pictures, the excitement of finishing it plus the beautiful sunshine sent me a bit giddy!)

Now you’ve seen the pictures there are a few bits of information you do need to know…

The pattern is the cosy stripe pattern by Lucy of Attic 24.

The yarn is stylecraft special dk and the colours are  the ‘original’ colour pack also put together by Lucy, available at Wool Warehouse, with a couple of other colours thrown in. Rather stupidly, I didn’t keep a note of the colours I used as I went along and the order was completely random. However, if anyone really does have a burning desire to know the exact order of the colours I used, I could work it out fairly easily.

I’ve had a bit of a love/ hate relationship with this blanket. I’m not really sure why but making it just seemed like such a long process and rather than get into a rhythm with the stripes I just got rather frustrated that each stripe seemed to take so long. I really did have to be in the right mood to pick it up but judging by the fact that it took me well over 6 months to complete, it would appear that the right mood just didn’t come along very often!!

Now its finished though, I do really love it, I love the bright colours, I love the eclectic feel of it and I really really love the border. When I had finished the yellow and green on the border, I will admit, I was tempted to pull it back and start again as it just seemed too gaudy and in your face. In the end I trusted my instinct and chose a further 4 colours to tone it down a little. I love how my friend Michelle described the border, she said the dark purple on the very outside provides the blanket with a full stop and I couldn’t agree more. What a lovely way of putting it.

As well as revelling at having finished another blanket I do like to reflect on all my makes. Whilst I do love how the bright stripes blanket has turned out, I think I would make the border even thicker if I was to do it again. 6 rounds of trebles seemed quite a lot as I was doing it but having looked at the photographs I took today I think it could have handled a chunkier border. Having said that though, I am thrilled with the overall effect and I just hope that the recipient, my sister in law Dianne loves it too.

I’d love to hear any comments or questions that you have about the bright stripes blanket and would be happy to provide more information on request.

Thanks for popping by,

Karen x