So, I've shown you all of these baby blankets that I've made. This week, I don't have a baby blanket to show you, but a full sized blanket I made for a friend for her wedding. The blanket wasn't finished in time for the wedding, but it has finally been shipped and is on it's way to her and her husband. The pattern was very involved and had a lot of pieces to it.
All of those pieces when stitched together made one pretty awesome blanket. A really large blanket that took many hours, over a few months. This is the final product!
The pattern is called the Double Wedding Ring Crochet Quilt. I loved every minute I spent working on this pattern and I learned a lot. This was the first blanket that I learned how to properly weave my ends in, as well as a few stitches that I hadn't used before. I loved how easy the arcs of the dark grey color were to make, especially because when I started I thought those would be the hardest to make. The light gray octagons were fairly simple, but the white eyes and centers were the really challenging parts.
The eyes were done in rounds and used quite a few new combinations of stitches. The centers were also done in rounds and the corners of those were interesting to make. I did a chain off of the round and then crocheted back to the round again.
The pieces are stitched together with single crochets in the back loops of the pieces, so the one side is very textured and the other side is very smooth.
This is the most complicated pattern I have made so far, and it is definitely one of my favorites. I hope to make another one of these one day, but it will have to be for a very special occasion. This did take me almost 3 months to finish after all!
