Today I stripped the sheets off my bed and threw them in the wash with my pillow, and due to unfortunate circumstances none of the above are dry AND I haven’t been able to wash the blanket I’ve been using and which needs a wash because it has got The Stink. So I redressed my bed with unfamiliar sheets from the closet, and an elaborate crochet blanket I rescued from the thrift at least two years ago because it is huge and gorgeous and I couldn’t find what was wrong with it, and with the open work it looks awesome atop the peacock throw:
And finally, FINALLY! having it spread out on the bed atop a dark contrasting color enabled me to see just what was so wrong that it was abandoned to the thrift:
That is so, so fixable. I can do that. I’m not gonna right now, it’s gonna sit on my bed like this until the Executive Dysfunction Weasels determine the hands of the Mending Clock are in position for the deal or whatever.
I am happy to take some additional close-up shots of the individual motifs and work with you on visual stitch forensics, if you like
👀 oh that would be awesome if/when you've got the spoons for it
Ch8 and join to make ring.
Into ring, Ch5, (tc, ch2)x7, sl st into 3rd chain of ch5 to join [8 tc spokes]
Ch4 or chainless starting tc, (3tc into sp, tc into tc) around, 3tc into sp, sl st to join [32 tc]
Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, tc in next 3 st, ch2, (2tc in 1 st, tc in each of next 3 st, ch2) around. Sl st to join top of 1st ch/tc. [8 repeats
Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, tc in next st, ch1, 5tc in same st, sl st back through ch1 just made, tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2, (2tc in tc, tc, ch1, 5tc in 1 st, sl st back around ch1 just made, tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2) around, sl st to join [8 repeats]
***that was a weird row, here’s a top view of one of those 5tc bobbles to show how you connect back to that ch1 behind the 5tc to force them to puff out
Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, tc in next 2 st, tc into joining st behind the top of the 5tc bobble, tc in next 2 st, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2, (2tc in same st, tc into joining st behibd bobble, tc in next 2 st, 2 tc in last st before ch so, ch 2) around, join
Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, tc, ch, 5tc bobble, join around ch1 behind, tc in next 3 st, ch, 5tc bobble, join around ch1 behind, tc, 2tc in last st before ch so, ch2, (2tc in same st, tc, ch1, bobble, join, 3tc, ch1, bobble, join, tc, 2tc in same st, ch2) around, join.
Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, 2tc, tc in bobblejoin st, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin st, 2tc, 2tc in last st before ch so, ch2, (2tc in same st, 2tc, tc in bobblejoin, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin, 2tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2) around, join.
Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, 3tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, 3tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch 2, (2 tc in same st, tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, 3tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, 3tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, tc, 2tc in last ch before ch sp, ch2) around, join.
Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, 2tc, tc in bobblejoin, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin, 2tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2, (2tc in same st, 2tc, tc into bobblejoin, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin, 2tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2) around, join
That’s the most of it. I need to stare at the triangle bits to sort out how they attach and how many stitches and such, but I am Le Tired
This bitch
A) remind me and I will look at it, whilst better rested and under better light
2) I write all the above straight to post without double checking or edits. If my abbreviations don’t make sense lmk. If I have egregious typos lmk. If anybuggy does a test make by following these instruction, I would dearly like to see it!
Spoon) 🥄
thank you so much for doing all that investigative work and writing it out! and especially for the note on the sl st behind the bobbles, that's always something i miss somehow
this is what i got by following it as you wrote- i did use US dc for the main body since they seem to match the height in the photos a little more, but kept the US tc for the bobbles to make them puff out more
going by the photos, it almost looks like they attached entirely new strands of yarn for the triangles/lacy bits, but that didn't seem right based on how fiddly it would be (especially for a blanket) or based on how it's coming apart, so instead i tried doubling back with chains, tc, and sc to create it
so for mine the last round was:
ch 3 or chainless starting dc, dc 1 in same sp, dc 13, 2dc in last st before ch sp, ch 2, (2dc in same st, dc 2, place marker, [dc 5, place marker] x 2, ch 4, turn, tc 1 in 2nd marked/center st, ch 8, tc 1 in same st as previous tc, ch 4, sl st to 1st marked st, ch 1, turn, sc 1 in top of same st as sl st, sc 4 in ch4 sp, sk tc, [sc 5, ch 3, sc 5] in ch8 sp, sk tc, sc 4 in ch4 sp, sc 1 in last marked st, dc 1, 2dc in last st before ch sp, ch 2, 2dc in same st, dc 13, 2dc in last st before ch sp, ch 2) around
(separated out for readability since that was a block of text)
i'm not entirely sure about the chain or sc counts, especially the chain 3 between the sc 5s, but it seems to give a similar fullness and roundedness to them
I have got to come back and read this in full and do a test crochet with my bit and your bit to see how it goes, but seeing this way that you followed up my post with your addition that is very yes, and basically has me feeling the need to not go on with the rest of my evening until I say that right now I am feeling just so, so drift compatible
Thank u so much for this tag. I enjoy so much looking at fibercrafts and working out how to do it myself you wouldn’t download a blanket wouldn’t I bitch watch me and I forget this is not what most people do
You can do it
You can be people who create also, the magic is inside you
If your magic requires permission for activation purposes, I provide that now. Proof! It is I, your fairy craftmother, activating in you the ability to go fuck around with stuff and learn from all the things that go wrong, and keep trying things, and watch other people make things and ask them questions sometimes too, so that you can learn from their shit, and just.
Be a people who creates
