I primarily made this blanket to showcase my petal edging which I designed way back in 2015, you can read how it came about here. It reminds me of little petals and really suits a traditional style crochet blanket like the granny square one that I have made here.
I can't give you any meaningful reason why I chose these colours! I was just playing around with yarn pegs and these ones just seemed to work.....I really love the pop of the gold colour in amongst the pinks and greeny blues! The dark navy was a bit of an afterthought, it wasn't in my original combo but as I started crocheting the rounds I felt it needed something more and navy is a great all rounder, it goes with almost everything :) I'm glad I added it in.
For this blanket I used
Cygnet DK in
- Fondant
Paintbox DK
- Washed Teal
Scheepjes Colour Crafter
- Barneveld
- Tynaarlo
- Sittard
- Burum
- Dordrecht
I made 33 rounds for my granny square which made it a decent baby sized blanket and then I added 2 rounds of double crochets before I started the edging. The edging is made up of two rounds and you can find my video tutorial for it (among others!) on my You Tube channel here….
Please note my Petal edging is protected by copyright. If you use my edging please credit Little Dove Crochet.
Fast forward well over a year and I thought I’d use this combo again! I’m using all the same colours except for Washed Teal which I replaced with Stylecraft Special DK Spearmint and I replaced the Cygnet DK Fondant with Scheepjes Colour Crafter in Luik as I’m currently trying to just make from my existing stash.
I’m making the same squares as my Delilah blanket just with an extra round
How to make my Delilah squares
and for colour placement I’m using my easy colour placement for granny squares but for squares with 6 colours and 6 rounds. The 7th round here is my joining colour (spearmint).
Easy colour placement method for granny squares
I made 36 squares and joined them continuously using this method….
I then did some rounds of granny stitch with some of the colours I had left over from making the squares. This is not my usual style of border! I felt it needed something bold although I’ll be honest and say I’m not totally enamoured with the border.
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Thank you, Faye x
(Please do not copy, sell or claim my Petal edging as your own pattern. It is copyright ©Little Dove Designs 2015. If you use my edging please credit Little Dove Crochet)