crochet blanket for September and beyond…

It’s  September.  I love September!  I said it last year: I said it the year before, and yes – I will say it again next year.  I love the last hazy days for Summer as the year turns towards Autumn.  I love the thought of the colours changing, the early morning mists and dusky evenings.  I love this time of year.  I have spent the last week, thinking about my Autumn / Winter crochet project.  Inevitably I will have more than one crochet on the go over the next few months: a girl needs variety!  My main crochet project is going to be a biggy: a long term project that will grow slowly as-and-when the mood takes me.  I am going to be crocheting a Lucy blanket: as in Lucy from Attic24.   I ordered my yarn from Wool Warehouse, to my absolute delight a massive box arrived the very next day, full of yarn…

I have to confess I was a little unsure about the some of the colours, they are not what I would normally choose, but I love how Lucy puts her colours together: so I trust that the finished blanket will be great.  I decided that I needed to take a super organised approach to crocheting the blanket and sort out my colours.  Putting the colours in order took a lot of thinking about.  At one point, I have over thought the whole project and was very close to giving up before I started.  Then with one last attempt I found a combination that I was happy with (I think)…

With my first colour (Stylecraft DK Special – Clematis) in hand I started crocheting a chain, long enough to cover a double bed (I hope).  I would love to tell you how many chains I crocheted: but the truth is I lost count.  I crocheted somewhere between 250 and 300 chains…

The blanket is going to be a crochet granny-stripe blanket, so I set about crocheting my first row of treble clusters…

I decided to crochet straight into the chains, rather than crocheting a proper foundation chain.  Why?  Well the thought of crocheting a foundation row of 250 – 300 chains, really put me off.  When the blanket is finished I am going to edge it: any foundation row would be hidden, so no point in doing one!  Right?