I've had a couple of balls of King Cole Bramble DK in colourway Loganberry in my stash for a while just waiting for inspiration to strike.........
I've said this many times before that variegated yarn is a funny animal! It lures you in with all it's pretty colours and then you try to crochet something with it and it can look nothing like you imagined!! The key to it for me is to work out if the colour changes are short or long. If short then small squares can work well, If long then stripes can work well although that theory doesn't always work out! Sometimes it's just a lot of trial and error!
King Cole Bramble changes colour quickly so I decided to make little three round solid grannies and it's worked really well for them as I didn't want too many colour changes within the squares. The bigger your square the more colours there will be within the square so it really depends on the look you're after.
You can find my video for making three round solid granny squares here just bear in mind that there is a colour change in the video after the second round that isn't required here as all three rounds are made with the same yarn
How to make solid granny squares
I got 33 squares out of each 100g ball so I'm going to make an 8 x 8 size blanket (64 squares total). I don't block my squares, the process of joining will block them for me. I talk more about my thoughts on blocking here......
I’m joining my squares with Yarnsmiths Create in Off White using a continuous join as you go method…..
Continuous join as you go with (UK) dcs
It’s the same method I used for my Amber blanket
This is still a work in progress so I'll update the blog with more info as things progress.....