Total time to complete: 4726 min = 78 hrs & 46 min (over the course of 1 yr & 5 mon)

Total size (rough measure): 70 x 70 in = 177 x 177 cm

• 11/11/23 : Finished first bike strip
• 12/20 : Restarted completely. Completed R1-2 (99m)
Started with 246 Foundation DC, which is 6 repeats

Changes : doing DC stitches & TC Bobbles (bobbles ending w/4 loops on the hook, 3 of which are unclosed TC) instead of SC stitches & DC bobbles. Doing a Stacked SC for the turning chain/first DC of each row.

• 12/24 : Had to redo R2 (made too many FDC), + completed 1st repeat of R3 (47m)
• 12/25 : Completed R3-4 (54m)
• 12/26 : Completed R5 (36m)
• 12/28 : Frogged R4-5 .. Re-did R4-5 + 6-8 (142m)

Changes : Rows between bobble rows will be HDC instead of DC. Starting stitch will still be Stacked SC instead of turning chain.

• 12/29 : Completed R9-10 (54m)
• 12/31 : Completed R11-14 (115m)
• 1/1/24 : Completed 3 repeats on R15 (22m)
• 1/2 : Completed R15-16 (42m)
• 1/3 : Completed R17-18 (62m)

Thinking ahead .. original pattern has a DC row of accent color between bicycle stripes, since I’m upping the other stitch sizes, maybe I’ll make it a Linked TR row instead.

• 1/6 : Completed R19 (24m)
• 1/13 : Completed 4 repeats of R20 (15m)
• 1/18 : Completed R20-24 (104m)
• 1/19 : Completed R25 (27m)
• 1/20 : Completed R26-27. First stripe complete. (39m)
First stripe is 23cm tall (w/o accent row). Used approx. 601.3y/549.8m/269g of grey.

• Decided on using a Forked Cluster stitch (FC) for the accent rows. I tried the Linked TR and it was too dense, but a reg TR was too loose.

Accent row used 56.2y/51.4m/25g of white.
• 1/22 : Completed R28, the FC accent row (60m)
Completed R29-33 (the start of the 2nd color stripe - purple) - had to frog 2 rows b/c I added a st somewhere (109m)
Redid R32 (26m)
• 1/27 : Completed half of R33 (20m)
• 1/30 : Completed R33-35 (60m)
• 1/31 : Completed R36 (16m)
• 2/6 : Completed R37-40 (103m)
• 2/10 : Started R41 (10m)
• 2/14 : Completed R41, started R42 (25m)
• 2/15 : Completed R42 (20m)
• 2/16 : Started R43 (15m)
• 2/18 : Completed R43, started R44 (20m)
• 2/20 : Completed R44-48 (115m)
• 2/21 : Completed R49-50, started R51 (63m)
• 2/23 : Completed R51-55. 2nd stripe is complete. (108 m)
Stripe 2 used approx. 634.8y/580.5m/284g of purple
• 2/25 : Completed 2nd FC Accent Row - First repeat complete. (43m)
Start of 2nd Repeat : Completed R1-2 (41m)
• 2/26 : Started R3 (22m)
• 3/1 : Completed R3-6 (63m)
• 9/28 : Completed R7-9 (150m)
• 9/29 : Completed R10 (21m)
• 10/15 : Started R11 (12m)
• 10/20 : Completed R11-12 (43m)
• 10/21 : Completed R13-14 (45m)
• 10/22 : Completed R15 (41m)
• 10/23 : Completed R16 (30m)
• 10/26 : Started R17, finished 3 repeats, frogged back to half way of R16 b/c missed st. Completed R16 (32m)
• 10/27 : Completed R17-20 (112m)
• 11/2 : Completed R21 (40m)
• 11/3 : Completed R22 (24m)
• 11/5 : Completed R23 (30m)
• 11/6 : Completed R24 (20m)
• 11/7 : Started R25 (5m).
Ran out of Soft grey, will have to order more to continue.
• 11/15 : Completed R25-27. 1st Stripe of 2nd repeat complete. (68m)
• 11/16 : Completed R28 (FC accent row) (44m)
• 11/17 : Completed R29-30 (start of next stripe 2 of 2nd repeat) (44m)
• 12/11 : Completed R31-33 (99m)
• 1/4/25 : Completed R34-36 (75m)
• 1/6 : Completed R37-38 (64m)
• 1/10 : Completed R39-40 (62m)
• 1/22 : Completed R41-42 (51m)
• 2/1 : Completed R43-44 (65m)
• 2/2 : Completed R45-46 (58m)
• 2/5 : Completed R47-48 (49m)
• 2/6 : Worked on R49 (22m)
• 2/8 : Completed R49-50 (30m)
• 2/9 : Completed R51-54 (94m)
• 2/10 : Completed R55 - 2nd stripe of 2nd repeat complete (17m)
• 2/22 : Completed R56 (accent row).
— Started 3rd (and last) repeat. Completed R1-2 (69m)
• 3/1 : Completed R3-6 (96m)
• 3/4 : Completed R7-8 (48m)
• 3/5 : Completed R9-11 (87m)
• 3/6 : Completed R12 (18m)
• 3/7 : Completed R13-14 (54m)
• 3/8 : Completed R15 (38m)
• 3/9 : Completed R16-17 (52m)
• 3/15 : Completed R18-19 (45m)
• 3/16 : Completed R20-24 (111m)
• 3/17 : Completed R25-27 (62m) - 1st stripe of last repeat done.
• 3/23 : Completed R28 (FC accent row) (36m)
• 3/31 : Started 2nd stripe of last repeat. Completed R29-34 (135m)
• 4/1 : Completed R35-38 (102m)
• 4/2 : Completed R39-40 (49m)
• 4/5 : Completed R41-45 (130)
• 4/6 : Completed R46-50 (117m)
• 4/7 : Completed R51-55 (104m)
— Last strip done. Body of blanket done.
— I made R54 DC, and R55 HDC to kinda of match the FDC of R1.
• 4/8 : Did 1 round of SC border (105m)
— PROJECT COMPLETE!