Big Twist Value Yarn:
100% acrylic, worsted weight, 297 yards

18 skeins Black
8 skeins White
5 skeins Soft Gray
2 skeins Medium Gray
1 skein Dark Gray
1 skein Varsity Red
1 skein Sky blue
1 skein Varsity Yellow
1 skein Varsity Gold
1 skein Sapphire
1 skein Pale Yellow
1 skein Varsity Green
1 skein Lilac
1 skein Taupe

I crocheted this blanket in panels. It was the first one I ever designed, and I wasn’t very accurate with scaling the design to actual size lol. This blanket is about as wide as a King sized, but significantly longer than a King. I’m really happy with the end result though (my dad is too, he’s the one I designed it for)! Because this blanket is so big, even with rearranging all my living room furniture, I didn’t have enough room to make it lay flat lol

Overall I would rate this blanket as an intermediate pattern, however… the Zeppelin album cover is a bit of a challenge as there is so much of it that is the same few colors and the picture doesn’t appear obvious right away. The Kashmir lyrics are a little challenging because if you lose sight of exactly where you are, it’s easy to pick up on the wrong line of text and have to frog an uncomfortably large number of squares (ask me how I know -_-). I make all my blanket patterns in Excel. It gives me a lot of cool information (which isn’t super important, but I like it!) Some of the information I feel is super cool is: this blanket has 25,282 squares, and uses 350,190 inches of yarn!!

To use yarn or hook size other than those called for in this pattern:
Crochet the first three squares. Do not cut the yarn, but hold your place on the yarn and pull out the squares. Measure what was used and divide by 3. This is the number of inches you will need per square. Multiply this by the number of squares per color (listed below). Divide by 36 to give you the total yardage needed for each color. (If doing this, make sure to factor in extra soft gray yarn to single crochet the panels together).

Black: 14,112
White: 5, 821
Soft Gray: 2,661
Medium Gray: 1,478
Dark Gray: 273
Varsity Red: 512
Sky Blue: 47
Varsity Yellow: 92
Varsity Gold: 39
Sapphire: 127
Pale Yellow: 26
Varsity Green: 16
Lilac: 15
Taupe: 63