Granny Diamond Blanket with Octopus
One of my friends had a baby girl, and I decided to make her an entire set!
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| Granny diamond blanket, octopus with giant flower, and flannel blanket |
Main Info
Crochet Blanket
- Size: 28.75" x 40"
- Time: 31.25 hours
- 19 hours making all the pieces
- 2 hours - crocheting and unraveling the edge as I figured it out
- Yarn: Big Twist soft
- White
- Avocado
- Teal
- Purple
- Hook size: H/8
- Pattern: Pin on Pinterest or Blog post
Octopus
- Size: 4.75" tall, 7.75" wide, 3" long legs
- Time: 8 hours (extra 40 minutes for the flower)
- Yarn: Same as the blanket
- Hook size: H/8
- Pattern: Pinterest pin / Free blog pattern
Flannel Blanket
- Size: 32.5" x 38"
- Time: I don't remember 1-3 hours?
- Fabric:
- School something nursery flannel - I can't find it online.
- Harper gray dots nursery flannel
- Pattern: Pin on Pinterest or Blog post
Thoughts from the process
Crochet Blanket
My goodness, patch blankets take so long! The time commitment is probably why I make them only every few years. My last one was in 2016! But it was totally worth it. First, I really needed a project to help with my mental health. I needed something I could do to help me decompress. Second, it came out so beautifully! I had to do the edging a few times before I got it right, but it really completes it. Here's a picture of it with only a white sc edge and the yarn ends not sewn in yet.
If you follow the link to the blog post, it links to the raverly.com pattern you can buy. I did not buy this. I used the pictures for inspiration and made up my own thing. Though if I had bought it, I probably wouldn't have made the mistake of making the wrong triangles for two corners. When I was figuring out the triangles along the edge, I missed that two of the corners, top left and bottom right in the above photo, needed to be a quarter the squares' size! So I made two extra triangles the size of half the square and only realized when I started putting everything together. I got the inspiration for making the triangles on a different blog.
To join everything, I used a slip stitch that this Pinterest video shows. I learned this join from a blog that called it a flat slip stitch.
I used a much smaller hook size than is usual with this yarn. Since this was a baby blanket, I wanted it to have small holes in the granny squares. But from past experience, I knew that wasn't going to happen if I used the recommended size hook. So I made a few granny squares with different hook sizes until I found the size that I liked.
Octopus
The octopus is so cute! This is definitely going in my list of patterns that I will do again and recommend to others! It also is so straightforward compared to other patterns that I've made! The odds of putting the pieces together to get a wonky amigurumi are pretty low.
Flannel Blanket
This blanket was like every other flannel blanket I've made so far. I kind of doubt I'll drift far from the original until I've get a bunch more under my belt. The decorative stitch along the edge was a new one that was interesting to work with since it was so wide. I think it would have been better closer to the edge in some places, but otherwise, I like it since it ties in with the school gride vibe side.
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