Hello, again! I wanted to drop by for a super fast post to tell you about a design that I wrote up a couple years back, but had to keep top secret. Well, now it’s published, and I can share!
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Confetti Blanket
Meet the Confetti Blanket, published as a “Scheepjes YARN: The After Party” booklet. These are released periodically by Scheepjes, and are numbered and collectible. Confetti is number 42 in the series which is just music to my nerdy little ears. I mentioned it on Instagram, and someone replied that it makes a lot of sense, because yarn is also the meaning of life – lol so true!
Want to see all of the After Party booklet patterns? Head to the Ravelry page! They’re about a buck!
Related Links
- Confetti Ravelry Page
- After Party Ravelry Page
- More projects to make with Stone Washed
- More projects to make with Stone Washed XL
- See the whole Stone Washed color range
- See the whole Stone Washed XL color range
- I reviewed these yarns. Check it out!
- WoolWarehouse will carry this booklet shortly – Check here for it!*
Yarny Notes
This blanket uses Scheepjes Stone Washed and Stone Washed XL together to make identically sized crochet hexagon motifs. you can see in the photo, one motif is chunky with fewer rounds, and the other is thinner with more rounds. They come out to the same size and are cleverly joined to make the blanket.
Shop this Yarn
Find Stonewashed and its XL buddy at Deramores*, LoveKnitting* (US), WoolWarehouse* (UK), and KnottyHouse* (CA), and other Scheepjes retailers. Trust me, you can put 10 random colors in your shopping cart and it’ll make a smashing palette.
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When Stone Washed XL came out, I was already thoroughly in love with the original Stone Washed and had worked with it many times. This plump and juicy XL version just made me want to figure out a way to use them together in the same piece.
I actually mixed the two weights again in the Gemma Blanket, which uses XL for the motifs, and the original weight for the joining and border. Super fun! Gemma was recently released as a free pattern for you all to enjoy – click here for that free pattern!
Behind the Scenes
So once I knew I wanted to design with both weights of Stone Washed, I felt drawn to make a hexagon motif, because obviously I am hexie-obsessed. Around this time, I had created the final square for my 2016 VVCAL, called the Crystal Square.
Here is Crystal – isn’t she a beauty? It’s my favorite square I have every designed, in the history of ever. One day I’ll make an entire blanket out of it. But at the time, I decided to hexagon-ize this bad boy. Because if four sides are good, then six sides are definitely better.
And here is the outcome – in that same beautiful golden color as well!
After a ton of frogging and re-making, I figured out how to cleverly make the two yarn weights work together. Gotta love it when that happens. Check out the Ravelry page to see this pattern for yourself!
YARN: The After Party, No. 42
The Scheepjes stylists always make my work look 10x lovelier. I sighed and stared dreamily at these photos for at least five minutes before deciding which ones to show you here. Of course, head to Ravelry to see the rest of the pics, and add No. 42 to your collection.
Closer in with these tropical citrus colors. Jeepers – now I want to pull yarn in these shades and have a quick play. But I already have a few projects on the go!! Soon 😉
Once more lovely photo of the whole blanket. Be sure to grab this booklet so you can make this creative blanket for yourself or some other lucky recipient. It is a really fun one!
Hope you enjoyed this quick little journey! You can see all of my finished pieces under the category “My Blanket Stack” and everything I have ever made (including when I have made many duplicates of the same blanket) over on my FO Gallery – needs updating, but is very comprehensive.
Also, I have a HUGE blog post to share with you all very soon. I have been working on it for two weeks, and hopefully tomorrow (or if you’re reading this later on, I’m hoping to release this gargantuan blog post on May 29, 2019). Let’s hope I can get it all done in time to post tomorrow! You’re going to love it – and for now, I’ll let you go to enjoy the rest of your day.
Be sure to get some hooky in!
Love,
Rachele C.
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