I purchased the special dk color pack which contained 17 skeins of yarn. I used 12 skeins to make this blanket. I didn’t like the way the tension of the blanket was off due to the different pattern stitches. You can read my notes here on my blog to see what I changed to remedy this problem: http://lillymycat.blogspot.com/2014/06/crochet-along-as-w...