[Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet question, changing to baby blanket talk

[Lisamaria Martinez]

Cathy,

In the last year, I've made a billion baby blankets. Okay, maybe not a
billion but over 6. I played around with several patterns of my own.
The easiest and quickest blanket to make for a little baby is simply a
single crochet blanket all the way through.

I love to use Bernat baby blanket yarn. It is chunky and so, so, so
incredibly soft. With a Q or S hook you can make a blanket super fast.
I think I'm a relatively slow crocheter and I can work up a blanket in
less than a week. If you are at convention this year, you can check
out some of my blankets.

I've done a variety of patterns that include a section of about 10 SC
rows folowed by 2 rows of DC and repeated through until the blanket is
my desired length and I end on a section of SC. The last 2 blankets I
made were a solid color for the entire blanket. I chose this yummy
looking yellow for one blanket and a blue for the second blanket. When
the blanket was as long as I wanted it to be, I took this very pretty
yarn that is a mix of pink, blue, yellow and white. Combined with the
body of the blanket it looks like trimming around a sheet cake so I
call it birthday cake frosting yarn. I have been doing about 2 rows of
SC as a border and then a slip stich to make the very, very edge a
little thicker.

Hope some of these ideas work out for you in future projects.

If anyone reading this has any ideas for borders or how to make cooler
looking edges with something other than a single crochet stitch, I'd
love to learn.

Thanks,
LM
On 6/4/13, Terry Knox <tknox6 at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> Cathy,
> If I may offer a suggestion given me...If you need help keeping your rows
> straight, place a stitch marker at the end of the row and move it up at the
> end of each row and your end should come out even each time.
> Terry K
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Paulette Vickery
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 10:28 AM
> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet question
>
> Hi Cathy,
>
> When you start anything other than single crochet, you always skip the
> first
> stitch. The chain 3 counts as the first double crochet. Also, when you do
> decide to crochet on both sides of a chain, as long as you just put extra
> stitches in the corners of the first row, when you actually work the other
> side of the chain and don't increase on any other rows, you will have a
> straight edged blanket. I have a lovely blanket using the half shell stitch
> that has a self scalloping edge that I can send to you if you like.
>
> Paulette
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Cathy
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 9:23 AM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet question
>
> hi Paulette,
>
> aw, thanks, yes I forgot to use a larger hook to make the chain, that was
> the problem.
> I understand about crocheting through the back of the chain now, but
> decided
> not to use that method after all because I do not want the project getting
> wide and long at the same time.
> so I am hoping that this time round, I will manage to crochet and have the
> edges straight. time will tell. I am crocheting double stranded which is
> something I have never tried to do before, so this is an interesting
> challenge. but so far I have one and a half rows of a forty inch wide
> blanket with no problems., just in case I run into difficulties, answer me
> this. to begin a new row I chain three when n double crocheting, then where
> do I place my first crochet stitch  in the next row? do I go into the
> stitch I just made in the previous row or do I skip that first stitch?   ?
> Cathy
>
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