11/7/14

One of my dearest and longest-known friends saw my grandson’s Doctor Wubbie and jokingly said he needed one, too. Since Robert has been so terrific to me since the 6th grade -- well over three decades!! -- I’m going to surprise him with it.

Just as with the other Doctor Wubbie, I’m making him a blanket in the colors and stripes inspired by the 4th Doctor and loosely based on Tara Wheeler’s Season 12 color diagram.

I’m using Stylecraft Special DK in Sunshine, Lipstick, Copper, Camel, Burgundy, Khaki, and Graphite.

It’s about 50” wide -- a starting chain of 171. (I counted because it’s the year Robert & I were born. For the record, he’s older!!)

I’m doing it all in double crochet.

I’ll have to put in an order to have enough of some of the colors, but I’ll go ahead and start while I wait for it to arrive from England.

I started with the “other end” of the chart so that the bulk of the camel (which I have the least on hand) is at the back end of the project. I’m feeling pretty brilliant about that.

12/4/14

The yarn came before we left on our multi-week trip. I worked on this and a couple of other things while we traveled. We got home this afternoon and I finished it tonight. Now to weigh it, photograph it, and get it into the mail to Robert. :)

It weighs 875 grams and has 144 rows. (So, each row took right at 6g of yarn.)

Rows:
Burgundy: 16 (98g)
Lipstick: 20 (122g)
Copper: 19 (116g)
Camel: 33 (200g)
Sunshine: 11 (67g)
Graphite: 21 (128g)
Khaki: 24 (146g)

Obviously, I broke into the second skein of every color but Sunshine and Burgundy. I used two entire skeins of Camel for this blanket. With adjustments to the color sequence, the blanket could be made this size with as few as 9 hanks of the yarn.