In my last post, I wrote about two baby blankets and two bears I made for the North Georgia Pregnancy Services Center. When I dropped of the two granny blankets and bears, I also included a third blanket and bear. This blanket was made with scrap/stash Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice yarn. For this blanket, I gathered all the Vanna’s Choice I had left in stash and separated it into two groups, muted cool colors and warm autumn like colors. I’ve been playing around with the muted cool colored yarn in a different project and will post about it once it is complete. For the the warm autumn like colors I decided to make a baby blanket.
I used the Cute as a Button Baby Blanket as my pattern but had to mix it up some to make the pattern work with the yarn I had. Rather than making the middle a solid color as written in the pattern, I opted for diagonal stripes in order to use all the small amounts of multi-colored skeins. And, since the middle was made with a variety of color, I opted to make the edging solid rather than the multicolored edging as written in the pattern. Finally, I left off the buttons as with the striped center, buttons would have been too busy.
This pattern starts in one corner then increases until half the main section is made, then starts decreasing to finish the second half. My goal was to use as much of my scrap stash as possible without running out of yarn at the end. So I set aside the yarn I planned to use for the edging, weighed what was left, split it into two equal parts and placed into separate bags. The goal was to work the pattern increases until the first bag of yarn was used up then start the decreases with the second bag of yarn. This worked!
I was so excited to use this awesome yarn for a baby blanket that looked really cool. The edging was stitched with a different, but very similar yarn that was given to me. I’m glad I had it as it gave the blanket the perfect edging. And while I had A LOT of ends to weave in (seriously close to 90) I used up all but a teeny tiny bit of off white. Don’t worry, it will get used in a future project. 🙂
Once the blanket was done, I made another Easy Peasy bear to donate with it. I’m really excited with how well they came out and hope they find a nice home with a new mom and her baby.
With a little bit of imagination and creativity, you can make two items from the same pattern that look completely different! Modified version above and original pattern below.
Happy Crocheting!
Darleen
Crochet By Darleen Hopkins 