I’ve had this idea in my head for a blanket for a while now. It’s inspired by all the monochrome and geometric style home décor items that seem to be so popular at the moment.
To tell you the truth, I actually nearly frogged it after the first few rows as I thought it wasn’t working. But I changed my mind, decided to see how it looked after a few more rows, and I’m so pleased I did.
It’s not *exactly* how I wanted it to be, and there are definitely some changes I’d make if I were starting again, but as a first go at my very first blanket design, I’m pretty pleased with how it’s turning out.
I’ve not quite finished it yet but I’m over half-way now and, as it’s going to be symmetrical, I have a pretty good idea of what it will look like in the end now.
Except for the border, I haven’t decided quite how I’ll do the border yet. But I’m thinking that with all the pattern in the blanket itself, a simple and relatively plain border will probably be best.
Can’t wait to see how this looks when it’s all done
Wow, Catherine, that’s fabulous – so glad you kept going with it!
Thanks so much Emma! I’m nearly there now and thinking about writing it up…
Your blanket looks amazing and worthy of being in a magazine. I think you are right to do a simple border somas to not detract from the pattern.
Thank you so much Jamie for your kind words! X
I love the design and colours of your new blanket I hope it’s not to difficult 🤦♀️ I would love to try it out 😃 on your page you have a Bertie blanket with grey as the main colour I would love to know the colours you used they are so beautiful x x
Hi Maggie, thank you so much for your lovely comment 🙂 It really wasn’t that difficult to make this blanket and I think most people with a little crochet experience would be able to manage it – it’s all UK tr stitches. I must get the pattern written up ASAP! I’m going to do a post about the colours for the Bertie blanket soon (hopefully this week…) but if you check out the “Colour combinations” highlights on my IG page you can see a photo (the last one in that section of highlights) of the colours I am using with labelled pegs. They are all Stylecraft Special DK. Hope that helps! x
Hi Maggie, I’ve just done a new blog post listing the colours I’m using in my Bertie x