Soft green Granny Square Blanket
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February 14, 2013
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Soft green Granny Square Blanket

Project info
Summer Garden Granny Square by Lucy of Attic24
Crochet
Afghan block
Hooks & yarn
3.5 mm (E)
7,245 yards
Katia Gatsby
2 skeins = 258.0 yards (235.9 meters), 100 grams
20
52315
Yellow
Scheepjes Isis
18 skeins = 1980.0 yards (1810.5 meters), 900 grams
801
3
White
Scheepjes Isis
20 skeins = 2200.0 yards (2011.7 meters), 1000 grams
802
3
Yellow-green
Scheepjes Isis
13 skeins = 1430.0 yards (1307.6 meters), 650 grams
842
3
Yellow
Scheepjes Softfun
9 skeins = 1377.0 yards (1259.1 meters), 450 grams
3
Green
Notes

Project:

I have been admiring for a while the blanket of Matt- and wanted one of my own some day.

I just had my bedroom repainted, soft green and vanilla on the walls, white ceiling, some golden details. I found in my stash some pretty colors that matches well the new colors of my bedroom and wanted to become a blanket. The bed is 180 x 200 cm, so I should plan for a blanket of 200 x 210 cm. The squares are 9 x 9 cm (unblocked), but let’s assume 10 x 10 cm (depending on how I will join the squares), so I need totally 20 x 21 = 420 squares.

The math:

I have:
18 x isis off-white
9 x soft-fun soft olive
20 x isis light mustard
13 x isis soft yellow
2 x katia gold - for joining the squares

Edge color:
I went for white on the edges, thereafter mustard, as second olive and yellow in the middle. I started with the granny squares, I have 19 by now and I used up all of one white ball.

Center color:
One ball of yellow gave 53 centers.

in the middle of the blanket:
18 x 17 = 306 squares takes 16 balls of white and 6 balls of yellow
the outer edges of the blanket:
419-3+420-3 = 73+77 = 150 squares with gold or white center and yellow edges will take 8 balls of yellow 2 balls of gold and 1 ball of white.
One ball white over.

Mustard:
I get out 24 squares from one ball of light mustard, so 18 balls are enough for 420 squares total; perfect, I’ll have 2 balls over that I could use to join the squares.

Olive:
One ball gave 55 squares, so 8 balls for the whole thing. One ball over.

Computes fairly well with the amounts of white and yellow I have, I might run short though by 1 ball yellow and have 1 ball white over. I still go for this plan and see how it’s going.

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  • Project created: February 17, 2013
  • In progress: February 17, 2013
  • Updated: August 17, 2013
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