blanket

Hiya from a.,

Sorry that it has been two weeks since the last post, I do try to keep at a 7-10 day pattern, but it took awhile longer to finish the blanket for a couple of reasons.  One a certain four legged creature believed that it was done already so he would sit on it while I was working, thus impeding the whole process.  The other reason is that I told myself that I would finish the blanket in a week.  Now of course that means that I had to start 3 other different projects instead.  So I have a finished blanket and got about halfway through a sweater, which will be finished at some point.  I have also learned a valuable lesson from this blanket.  Doing the blanket that just gets bigger in one piece as you go takes forever.  It starts quick and small, but it just feels like it never ends.  With blankets you do in pieces at least it is transportable and easier to break from.  You can feel small victories with a pieced afghan in a way you can't with a bigger work.  Anyways here is a crocheted log cabin blanket:

I stuck to a cool palette on one side, and a warm on the other.  There isn't a specific pattern to the colour blocks, more that I wanted to avoid stacking the same colour on top of itself.
 Here is a close up of the center of the blanket so that you can see the stitch a little better.

I've heard the stitch called by a number of names, granite, tweed, even seed.  It is a single crochet, chain 1, single crochet, where in the following row you always work in the chain.  I love this stitch.  It gives a beautiful texture and can look so different depending on the size of hook and type of yarn (this will be demonstrated to you next  post).
So there is the blanket finally done.  Which of course means I've already started another blanket, which I promise you is going to be totally awesome.
Take care.