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Published on August 22, 2023

My Blanket Stack: Full Reveal Color Riot Blanket

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Hello, beautiful crafter! Today I’m going to share the reveal of the Color Riot Blanket, fully completed. When I wrote the pattern, I actually hadn’t finished the blanket, and had only completed one corner, so I wanted to make an update on how the blanket looks when it’s all finished! Thanks for coming along 🙂

Yarns Used in this Blanket

In this blanket, I used a Scheepjes Terrazzo yarn pack plus some 50g balls. Here are the details:

Terrazzo Colour Pack

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  • 1 x Terrazzo 10g Colour Pack
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  • 7 x 50g balls each of the following:
  • CC1: Pergamena – 745
  • CC2: Ardesia – 743
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This is the start of my motifs. I love making motifs in an assembly line style so that I can feel like I am completing a lot at once, and also because it helps memorize the design so that I don’t have to keep looking at the pattern.

I love this pack! The colors vibe very well together.

Color Riot Process

To see all of the behind the scenes of the design progress, you can head to the pattern post.

I really fell in love with this motif as I designed it, and it would actually make a great stand-alone motif with a narrow join, versus using the arrow motifs in between, for a completely different look.

The reason I decided to create this design was to make a textured version of my French Braid Blanket motif. You can see that motif below! Something was telling me to make a block based on the look, but with crazy patterns all mixed together for the stripes.

It was the most fun to design! And then I had an itch to go super extra with it.

Adding the Arrow Motifs

The addition of the arrow motifs just made everything pop, and this is when I really fell in love with the blanket in progress. BUT, it’s also when I started to get a case of the doubts…

Every design cycle has a period when I doubt that the project even works, and doubt that anyone would like it. Happens every time! Then I start talking about the piece on socials and I get some confidence back that motivates me to push forward.

This pattern indicates to make 12 Color Riot Motifs, but you can actually get 16 motifs if you are careful with the amounts when you make your stripes. I still had about 40g of yarn leftover!

I am really in love with this one and took a bunch of photos 🙂

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The border is only partially around the blanket because that is the corner that was initially finished for the pattern writing process. By doing it this way, I can produce patterns faster, and help my hands keep up with my brain (somewhat).

I have a backlog of about 160 blog post drafts, and about 20 crochet patterns to release.. So I try to maintain a balance between designing and resting!

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Completed Color Riot Blanket

And now for the finale! The completed Color Riot Blanket:

Hashtags: #ColorRiotBlanket and #CypressTextiles as always

This yarn feels very artsy as it’s a tweed, and it gives the blanket a lot of character.

Here is the full blanket! I took back some of the border to save time, but I still love it!

I really hope you enjoy this pattern. It has been well received so far, and there is even a chart in the pattern! It’s very detailed.

Thank you for stopping in to see my giant FO reveal!

Happy crafting,

Rachele C.

The Art of Crochet Blankets

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