Buttery Snuggle Blanket
This is a blanket I started out just because I had a pretty yarn! It was soft, and I loved the yellow with little tufts of other colors. I only got 2 skeins, though, because it was in the clearance bin and that’s all there were.
I probably could have started out smaller, or swatched the gauge, but I didn’t, so this is the blanket after I used up both skeins:
Here they are all together, with my started piece on top:
So then I had to figure out how I wanted to proceed. I figured out I wanted a narrow stripe of accent color right next to the first portion, and I decided the purple might be best. But I got this far and realized I didn’t know how wide I wanted the yellow to be:
Well, I did a bunch of calculations for proportions of the blanket, and based on the width I had, and only one stripe of each accent color, I was able to figure out how wide to make the yellow stripe, at least approximately, and then once I had the first one done, I knew how many rows to make the subsequent yellow stripes:
And here is the finished product. Super cuddly, warm, snuggly, and wonderful. I originally thought I’d make a baby blanket from that variegated yarn, but once I got going, I realized it was closer to crib size… and now I just love it too much, and it’s my lap blanket for couch snuggles. It’s wonderful.
Yours,
Sarah