I made this blanket out of scraps from my stash. It's made using the most beautiful and ingenious crochet stitch ever. I used this pattern - the corner to corner throw which I found on my new favourite website ravelry. Whoever thought it up is brilliant. However, it is not a pattern that translates well in words. I must have started and unraveled and started and unraveled a half dozen times before I decided to see if youtube had a video. Thank goodness they did, because I was lost. It took me a few watches, but I finally understood. (I wonder what people did in the days before Google and youtube?)

Once you start and understand, it is a very fast moving stitch. It works up wonderfully. I had, unfortunately, 2 problems with this blanket. (& they are completely and totally my fault)

1. The blanket is quite small. Granted, it is a baby blanket, but it is still small. I was very worried that I was going to run out of my 'colours'. Now, looking back I don't understand what I was thinking about in regards to those 'colours'. Orange, yellow, brownish-orange, pink, and hot pink don't really go together all that well. So, it's very small. Good for an infant I suppose, which is good because we actually know a few people that have just had babies.

2. I screwed up on the edging. It doesn't lay flat. The sad thing is is that I knew it was screwing up as I was going along, but I kept trying to convince myself that it was all going to work out. Hah. I should know by know not to trust my inner crocheting voice. I think it's simply my lazy conscious. I tried to add the scalloped edging in hopes that it would help it to lay flat...but it doesn't. I know I should unravel it...but I have no desire to try and fix it. I've already moved on to my next project (which is The Hexagon Baby Sweater--I said we have many friends that have just had babies). I think to the untrained crochet eye, they will not notice the ruffles--heck, they might even think that it's supposed to be ruffly, right? :P

All in all--

Will I use this stitch again? Absolutely. It's lovely and works up fast.

Will I ever use that colour combination again? No way Jose. It is straight out of 1977--the bad parts of 1977.

Will I pay more attention to my edging? Oh you better believe I will.

cheers!

~dinah

PS. I changed the blog template...what does everyone think? Better? Worse? Blase and boring now? Or elegant and refined?